… partners Future Leaders School alongside Akwaaba Volunteers In a powerful display of corporate social responsibility, ZEN Petroleum Limited has announced a landmark GH¢ 2 million commitment to bolster the educational environment at Future Leaders School (FLS) in La Kpeshie, Accra. This transformative partnership with Akwaaba Volunteers aims to empower...
Ghana turns 64 years today, since freeing itself from the grip of colonial rule on that fateful occasion of March 6, 1957 - becoming the first sub-Saharan nation to attain the enviable status of an independent country. From the period of independence to date, a lot has happened in...
Invest for Jobs, an initiative of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development has launched a project with Touton aimed at revamping the Ghanaian cocoa industry. The project-Cocoa Jobs for Organic Integrated and Improved Rural Economy’ will promote Ghana’s organic and climate-smart cocoa production value chain in line...
Chocolate fans will not necessarily benefit from predictions of a fall in cocoa prices this year. A Reuters poll of London cocoa futures published on Monday forecast cocoa would cost 10% less at the end of the year because of rising production and a hit to demand from the...
A Hight Court has ordered Italian oil and gas firms ENI and Vitol to set aside 30 percent of oil proceeds from the Sankofa Field in an escrow account, pending the final determination of an application filed by Springfield E&P - a wholly Ghanaian-owned upstream firm. The two oil companies...
PETROSOL Ghana Limited, a leading privately-owned Ghanaian Oil Marketing Company(OMC), has received triple International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certification. These are ISO 9001: 2015–Quality Management System; ISO 14001:2015–Environmental Management System and ISO 45001: 2018–Occupational Health & Safety Management. According Mr. Michael Bozumbil, the Chief Executive Officer of PETROSOL, the certifications...
Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire are the world’s biggest producers of cocoa but rely heavily on standards and regulations developed by the European Union, a situation which leaves the West African nations vulnerable, says Nico Roozen, Honary President of Solidaridad Network. The EU is currently developing new standards for the cocoa...
For years now, cocoa farmers income from the sector has kept decreasing while the cost of production and living has kept increasing. Cocoa farmers, who ignited an industry worth over £131bn, are unable to afford the quality of life enjoyed by even the lowest-paid person working in the cocoa...
The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) is urging its Nigerian counterpart to reduce the sulphur content in its diesel fuel to about 50parts per million (ppm). Nigeria is currently doing 3,000ppm of sulphur content, which is considered to be toxic fuel. Mr. Tampuli who was speaking in Nigeria, Lagos during the Oil...
…the facts SML discussions ignore Until mid-December last year, Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Limited (SML) was like any ordinary business in the country - judiciously deploying its skills and talents in the concerted effort of nation building. Except for a few publications, mostly on its numerous corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities, the...