Management of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has moved to end the practice of weighing-scales tampering with fresh preventive and punitive measures. Cocoa buyers in the West African nation have come under fire after a media exposé revealed systemic cheating of cocoa farmers through adjustment of analogue weighing scales. According to...
The issue of Cocoa Produce Buying Companies (PBCs) adjusting their scales to cheat cocoa farmers of their due is not only sad but unconscionable. A private broadcasting station’s latest investigative documentary ‘Missing Kilos’ exposed the stealing of cocoa beans by clerks in licenced cocoa buying companies of the country. The...
The LPG Marketing Companies Association of Ghana (LPGMCs) will be supported with 50 percent of their buffer stock cylinders to help with piloting the Cylinder Recirculation Model (CRM), the  NPA Chief Executive-National Petroleum Authority, Alhassan Tampuli, has said The Authority has so far committed more than 40,000 branded and fit...
Santol Energy, one of the fastest-growing indigenous oil companies in the downstream sector, has opened its newest branch at Weija, in the Greater Accra Region, in line with its drive to delivering best-in-class services, offering affordable and clean fuel to the local market and beyond. The opening of the Weija...
The firm price of gold in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic offers significant hope to the economy, a former Chief Executive Officer of the Minerals Commission, Dr. Toni Aubynn, has said. Speaking during a webinar on how mining could help to mitigate the adverse impact of the pandemic on African...
Over the last 30 years, research and development in “Green energy” has exploded, producing hundreds of promising new technologies that can minimize the world’s dependence on fossil fuels, including oil, natural gas, and coal. The Environment Protection Agency (EPA) describe Green energy as power produced from natural sources such as...
As part of efforts to promote the industrialization agenda of government and to hasten the revival of the pandemic-hit economy by increasing non-traditional exports, the Ghana Exports Promotion Authority has inaugurated a new bauxite bead making facility at Abompe in the Eastern Region. The new GH¢500,000 facility, comes in two...
Prudential Life Insurance has announced a partnership with three institutions; United Way Ghana, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the School of Languages, University of Ghana to fund projects that are set to impact over 23,000 Ghanaians. United Way Ghana is bringing together local expertise in the fields of education,...
...as TEN, Jubilee half-year results remain in line with guidance Production from Tullow Ghana's Jubilee and Tweneboa Enyenra Ntomme oil fields for the first half of 2020 remains in line with full-year forecasts, despite disruptions caused by the Coronavirus pandemic and collapse in prices due to the Russia-Saudi Arabia oil...
Unilever Ghana Limited remains positive about its future growth prospects despite the difficult economic climate that negatively impacts the company’s growth and profitability. The company is hopeful that its very strict stock management and other policies put in place by management would help to improve performance in the future. Management retains...