The Institute of Distance Learning at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has inaugurated its Takoradi City Campus at Kansaworodo, a suburb of Takoradi, to enable working class people, in particular, to upgrade themselves academically.
The campus project was financed from the university’s Internally Generated Fund (IGF)...
The volume of gas supplied to Ghana by Nigeria for thermal power production has reduced by about 50 percent.
Natural gas supplied by NGas via the West Africa Gas Pipeline Company Limited (WAPCo) now averages about 60mscf per day as against the contractual volume of 123mscf per day.
The situation has...
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has expressed worry over the increasing use of bleaching pills in the country, saying it has not approved any pill, tablet or cosmetic for skin-lightening purposes - and that it is an offence for anyone to use them.
“The use of these drugs has...
Virtual Currency: An unregulated digital currency that can be used as a substitute for real and legally recognized currency. Convertible Virtual Currency usually has a measurable value in real money, but what makes it convertible lies in its ability to be exchangeable. Not all virtual currency can be exchanged...
A workshop to support the implementation of the new World Bank Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) kicks off today Monday, 26 February - March 1, 2018 at Alisa Hotel, Accra.
The workshop, is expected to brings together government and non-governmental representatives from Ghana and Project Implementation Units from Ghana, Sierra...
The Commissioner General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Mr. Emmanuel Kofi Nti, has indicated that the authority’s revenue target of GH¢39.8 billion is achievable.
It raked in GH¢ 32.3 billion last year, registering a shortfall of GH¢1.1 billion.
The figure, however, represented a nominal growth of 22.3 per cent over...
Waste management company Zoomlion Ghana Limited has commended management of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) for its plans to restructure the Sanitation Module of the Youth Employment Programme to serve as a blueprint for other modules.
The company, which is the module’s implementing body, however said despite the commendable move...
Motorists using the main Ashaley Botwe-School Junction road that links the densely populated suburb to the rest of the city have expressed worry over what they described as ‘killer potholes’ which have developed along the entire stretch.
The deep holes, which start from the 3rd Gate Junction, go all the...
The ECOWAS Commission has signed a trade and investment cooperation agreement with the Republic of Turkey as part of efforts to deepen economic cooperation between members of the Sub-regional body and Turkey.
Signing the ‘Turkey-ECOWAS Trade and Investment Cooperation Agreement’, is seen as a principal step toward institutionalising relations between...
The Ghana Mineworkers Union (GMWU) has rejected moves by mining giant AngloGold Ashanti to move from owner mining to contract mining, a trend the union is already battling Goldfields Limited over in the law courts.
The union, in a press statement, called on Parliament to not ratify the Development Agreement...