Former Power Minister, Dr. Kwabena Donkor, has emphasised the role the Volta River Authority (VRA) played in the 2015 agreement with AMERI, for the provision of a 250 MW power plant in the heat of the country’s power crisis, when he appeared before Parliament’s Mines and Energy Committee on Friday.
Addressing...
Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Minister of Communication, on Wednesday said information collected for the National Digital Property Addressing System would be kept under lock and key.
According to her the system would also make it difficult for criminals to hide in the country as well as prevent them from accessing or hacking...
A high-powered business delegation representing Ghana - led by the High Commissioner to Canada, E. Ayikoi Otoo, and CEO of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre, Yofi Grant - rang the closing bell on the US$2.2trillion Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) on Tuesday, October 17, 2017.
Other members of the delegation included...
More than five hundred girls of the Odorgonno Senior High School have been left to make do with an old three-seater toilet facility after an oil cash-funded 18-seat facility constructed alongside a girls’ dormitory broke down after barely four months of usage.
The facility was inaugurated in October last year,...
Government will soon introduce a procurement policy that will bond its agencies and large companies operating in the country to source majority of their raw materials and inputs from local producers once such inputs are available, Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah, a Deputy Trade and Industry Minister, has said.
“The policy will...
The 15 percent increment in transport fares by the GPRTU in April has pushed inflation up slightly to 13 percent from 12.8 percent in March, the Ghana Statistical Service has announced.
“The rise in inflation rate from 12.8 in March to 13 percent in April 2017 was mainly due to...
The Ministry of Finance has appointed new officers to key positions in the Ministry in a bid to help push the reforms the government intends to pursue.
Overall four persons have been appointed to augment the work at the Ministry, including Ms Eva Mends, Eugene Asante Ofosuhene, Sampson Akligoh and...
Government must, as a matter of priority, be committed to employing the right number of qualified nurses into public health facilities, regardless of whether the bonding arrangement it has with trainee nurses is revoked, Dr. Justice Yankson, Deputy General Secretary of the Ghana Medical Association has said.
More hands, he...
“The Mystery of Capital”, a book written by the Peruvian Economist Hernando De Soto, immediately comes to mind anytime one considers Ghana’s fiscal situation. This book examines the importance of the extralegal sector to the economy. The extralegal sector is made up of assets, properties and businesses that fall...