The sod has been cut for work to begin on a solid-waste treatment facility for the people of Bono Region. The project - a collaboration between the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources (MSWR), Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL) and its private-sector partners - is aimed at improving sanitation in the...
Ghana is making significant progress toward the sustainable management of cocoa forest landscapes, boosting livelihoods and addressing the impacts of climate change  Ghana has received an advance payment of US$1.3million out of a US$50million agreement with the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility for results-based payments for reducing emissions from...
Former Finance Minister, Seth Terkper has maintained that the Mahama administration did not directly borrow from the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to finance the 2016 Budget. Mr. Terkper said the government in 2016 couldn’t have gone for BoG financing to support its expenditure since there was an IMF conditionality that...
A large number of small and medium-sized businesses remain informal not by choice but because their efforts to transition into the formal sector are frustrated by delays on the part of permits, licences and certificates issuing agencies. These delays, in turn, to lead to corruption and high cost of formalisation,...
One of the striking cultural elements of many a society is their building architecture; a personality carved deliberately with indigenous material, colour, motifs and other symbolic accents. Until the influence of western design, indigenous design leveraged the immediate natural environment to provide quality indoor air, cooling and other functional spaces....
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Vodafone Ghana, Patricia Obo-Nai, has joined a host of African leaders and the international community to share her thoughts on Africa’s economic recovery after COVID-19 at this year’s Bruegel Annual Meeting. Bringing the private sector perspective on the panel, Patricia Obo-Nai disclosed that in March, when...
Puma Energy has been named the Best company in Employee Safety and Security Management Practices, and Best Company in Health and Safety Campaign at the second edition of the Health, Environment, Safety and Security (HESS) Awards held at the Kempinski Hotel in Accra. The event, which sought to create awareness,...
The Ghana Nigeria Business Council (GNBC), a registered not-for-profit entity, has lauded the efforts by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to enhance trade relations between the two West African economic giants. On Thursday, September 3, 2020 during a meeting between Ghana and Nigeria regarding trade partnership, President Akufo-Addo stated the...
The Private Enterprise Federation (PEF) is pushing government to continue introducing policies, guidelines and legislation to enhance Ghana’s business-friendly environment, despite the World Bank halting publication of the Doing Business report after irregularities regarding changes to the data used in the report were detected. Nana Osei Bonsu, Chief Executive Officer...
Not so long ago, the energy transition was an idealistic concept-driven largely by researchers and environmentalists. The most important drawback was the high cost associated with the deployment of clean technologies. However, today and even more in the very near future, renewable energies (RE) will be accepted as the...