The Minister for Aviation, Cecilia Abena Dapaah has indicated that two new domestic airlines will be coming on stream sometime in the second quarter of the year. Presently, Africa World Airlines (AWA) remain the only domestic air carrier and the Minister reckons with two new airlines coming on board,...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called on American investors to take part in the extraordinary opportunities that exist in Ghana and on the African continent. “There is a lot of opportunity for American capital, technology and enterprise in Ghana, and indeed in Africa; and we welcome companies from all...
Government appears frustrated that lending rates remain immovable in spite of improvements in key macroeconomic indicators like inflation and treasury bill rates, and is considering bringing what Ken Ofori Atta calls some “moral pressure” to bear on banks. At the same time, the Finance Minister said, government is in discussions...
Mobile data will be used in Ghana to track and control epidemics, helping prevent a repeat of the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak, in a pioneering programme announced by Vodafone Foundation on Monday. The initiative will use aggregated anonymised mobile data to track real-time trends in population movement, the charitable...
The second edition of the Ghana Manufacturing Awards will recognize achievements from local and international manufacturing companies and reward those that played a defining role in moving the sector forward. The event, scheduled for Friday, May 24, 2018 at the Kempinski Gold Coast Hotel in Accra, will be held in...
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...