Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO chief executive, is to reconvene the agency’s emergency committee this week to assess the pandemic.
He admitted that the world has made a huge effort, but conceded that there is “a long hard road ahead of us”.
The WHO first declared the spread of the...
Business Development Minister, Dr Mohammed Awal, during the launch of Young Women in Entrepreneurship this week also used the occasion to appeal to businesses not to sit aloof without partaking in the free trade which kicks off in January 2021.
“Ghana should not be a spectator in AfCFTA. Ghana should...
A new digital system has enabled the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to add more than GH¢1billion to the government’s revenue in just ten months of its implementation.
The platform is an end-to-end Electronic Metering Management System (EMMS) solution that gives real-time visibility and transparency to major stakeholders such as GRA...
Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, again reiterated that forest reserves must remain no-mining zones - except in some exceptional situations - when he appeared before parliament to brief it on efforts to curb illegal mining.
To this end, he said, government had ceased issuing reconnaissance, prospecting...
The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) is collaborating with the Judicial Service to introduce special utility courts in a bid to curb the power theft cases which have grown in leaps and bounds around the country.
The Company’s deputy Managing Director (Engineering and Operations), Kojo Ayensu Obeng, disclosed this initiative...
Commercial Paper (or CP) notes are firmly integrated into the core of Ghana’s financial landscape.
Consequently, Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) is actively pursuing self-regulatory status from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in a bid to simplify the regulatory framework for the commercial paper (CP) market and bolster investor confidence.
The...
After several rescheduling of the renewable energy targets for the nation, analysts are again beginning to question the 2030 deadline toward achieving 10 percent of the country’s energy mix with renewables.
Despite aims to boost renewables in the country’s energy mix from 41.5 megawatts in 2015 to 1353.63MW by 2030...
A member of the COVID-19 National Response Team, Dr. Da Costa Aboagye, has expressed the conviction that the country is making significant progress against the COVID-19 battle.
According to Dr. Aboagye, the rate of active cases keep declining.
Speaking in an interview recently, he observed that the country’s active case count...
Chief Inspector in Charge of Factories at the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations, Fred Ohene Mensah, is calling on industry to push and make noise about the National Occupational Safety and Health Bill that is presently before Cabinet.
The National Occupational Safety and Health bill is still languishing at...