It was all joy for the people of Central Region as the sod was cut for construction of the Central Region solid waste treatment plant. Addressing the gathering at the sod-cutting ceremony on Friday (November 20, 2020) at Mankessim in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region, the Central Region...
A former Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel, Dr. Mohammed Ibn Chambas, recently delivered the 2023 Adebayo Adedeji Lecture, titled: ‘Governance, Social Contract, and Economic Development in Africa: Looking Back, Projecting into the future’- and called for the acceleration of the ideals of...
It's done! A few weeks ago Asante Gold acquired a 90% stake of the Chirano gold mine in Ghana through a deal valued at US$225million with Canada's Kinross Gold Corporation.  This takeover happened thanks to public funds and should boost recovery of the national extractives sector, which contributes to...
Government’s GH¢100 billion COVID-19 Alleviation and Revitalisation Enterprises Support (CARES) programme aimed at stimulating large industries to enhance job creation and foster economic revival must be properly managed or risk further shooting up the debt stock, global auditing giant Deloitte has said. The country’s public debt stock has increased to...
On May 11, 1981, Bob Marley passed away at just 36 years old. Three years later, Island Records released the Legend compilation with the aim of reaching “suburban record buyers who were uneasy with Marley’s image of a perpetually stoned, politically driven iconoclast associated with violence,” according to the...
Unilever Ghana, last year, increased its profit margin by 23 percent, the company disclosed when it took its turn at the ‘Facts Behind the Figures’ forum organised by the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) for listed companies. At the event, its Managing Director George Owusu-Ansah disclosed that the company’s revenue increased...
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has presented the much-anticipated 2022 budget, describing it as “crucial for our sustained recovery and transformation to a Ghana Beyond Aid”. Presenting the budget, themed ‘Building a Sustainable Entrepreneurial Nation: Fiscal Consolidation and Job Creation’, on Wednesday, November 17, 2021 in Parliament, the finance minister said...
It was just three years ago that Mr Emmanuel Eyisi, a member of Cooperative Cocoa Farmers and Marketing Union (CCP) in the Suhum Kraboa Coaltar District had his six-acre cocoa farm ravaged by indiscriminate bush fires. He had invested all his resources and his cocoa trees had pods nearing maturity...
With an estimated bauxite resource base of over 900 million metric tonnes, a comprehensive development of an integrated aluminium industry would create nearly 2 million sustainable jobs with an anticipated US$1trillion in total revenue for the country, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources Samuel Jinapor has said. He indicated that...
Growing up, I believed that I was one of the most harassed children in the world. Why? Because on Sundays, when we had to go to church, my father (who was then a lay-preacher in the Anglican church) would insist after church that I tell him about the sermon....