The youth are not our enemies; let us remember this before we do anything rash such as using brute force to quell their protests. They are our children that have come of age. Their flaws are our failings as parents. All over the world, the youth have broken ranks...
His Excellency the President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akofu-Addo and the Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation (GIADEC) have made claims intending to show how plans to mine Atewa Forest for bauxite abide by Ghana’s laws and international best practices for protecting the environment and people’s rights. Notwithstanding these...
The Ghana Upstream Petroleum Chamber has called on the Chief Executive Officer of the Petroleum Commission and his management team to present a position paper on the relationship between the PC as a regulator and the Upstream Petroleum Companies.
Presenting the paper, the CEO of the Upstream Petroleum Chamber, David...
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Pitching Right: How to pitch your startup to investors
It is a truism that a good idea sells itself, but then, for a good idea to sell itself, it must first be presented in the best possible way. Many startups have failed to secure...
The attention of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has been drawn to a press conference organised by the Ghana National Petroleum Tanker Drivers Union (GNPTDU) on Monday October 19, 2020.
Their grievances centred on five issues as listed below:
National Petroleum Authority (NPA) should approve the 86 Gas filling station...
A 39-year old Ghanaian farmer has broken a record by becoming the first indigenous commercial farmer with over 425 hectares of farmland in a single location of the country’s northern savannah ecological zone.
Isaac Papanko, CEO of Idan Agro Ventures Papanko, started off by farming maize on 8 hectares and...
MTN Foundation has invested a total of US$15 million in 150 projects in Ghana over the past 12 years. These investments cover areas such education, healthcare and economic empowerment.
On education, the foundation has 87 projects and these are on Information Communications Technology (ICT), dormitories for some Senior High Schools,...
The U.S. Embassy in Accra and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have formally launched the U.S. State Department Bureau of African Affairs’ University Partnerships Initiative (UPI) at an in-person and virtual launch ceremony on the KNUST campus on Wednesday October 14, 2020.
The event was presided...
The Kuburah Diamonds Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation, has launched a Zango Women Livelihood and Empowerment Programme (ZANGWOLEAP), to support women in Zongo communities with entrepreneurship skills.
The programme which was on the theme: “Empowering the Zango women into building financial freedom through skills development and capacity building” took place at...
Today, October 16, 2020 is the 75th Anniversary of World Food Day, marking the founding of FAO, with a view to looking towards the future we need to build together.
The theme for the anniversary is “Grow, nourish, sustain. Together. Our actions are our future.” As countries deal with the...