…as minister pays working visit The Minister of Works and Housing, Francis Asenso Boakye, has undertaken an inspection tour of ongoing dredging works in the Korle Lagoon at Accra. For the past few years Dredge Masters Limited (DML), a Ghanaian-owned leading provider of dredging services, has been carrying out dredging...
Maritime Law Consultant and Legal Practitioner, Dr. Emmanuel Kofi Mbiah, has hinted that it is about time the International Maritime Organization (IMO) turns to an African woman as Secretary General. He said, “very soon there would be elections of the Secretary-Generalship of the International Maritime Organisation. I am one of...
Over the past week, the world marked the World Glaucoma week to create awareness and mobilize efforts towards the elimination of blindness, caused by the disease. Here in Ghana, the International Maritime Hospital in Tema, has partaken in the Glaucoma awareness efforts with an intensive sensitization campaign at its hospital,...
The Executive Secretary of the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC), Dr. Ishmael Ackah, on Monday, 14 February 2022 presented a paper at the 3-day Commonwealth Science Conference sub-Sahara Africa Follow-on Meeting from 14-16th March 2022 at the Ghana Academy of Arts and Science. During the energy session, Dr. Ackah was...
THE national tourism development aspiration drive is on and continue to new stakeholders, players and new innovations especially among development proactive Municipal, Metropolitan and District Assemblies (MMDAs) across the country, which give fresh impetus, resurgence and energies which feed and promote the overall dynamic and evergreen burgeoning national tourism...
Bolt, the leading ride-hailing platform in Ghana, has launched its long-awaited Vehicle Financing Scheme, which will help drivers own vehicles flexibly and conveniently. Developed in partnership with Global Vehicle Sales and Leasing Ltd (GVSL), the vehicle financing scheme is dubbed Bolt Work and Pay and will initially be available to...
The Shoe Fabriek, a shoe manufacturing company in the Akuapem North District of the Eastern Region, has donated five hundred pairs of boots to cadets of five schools in the region. The move, according to the company is geared towards whipping up the interest of the students in joining the...
The Ghana Institute of Procurement and Supply (GIPS), the local body for procurement practitioners in the country, has withdrawn the membership of former chief executive of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) - Adjenim Boateng Adjei, for his involvement in corrupt practices which led to his dismissal from office. “GIPS wishes...
Research conducted by Civil Society Organisations, Oxfam and Women in Law and Development in Africa (WILDAF), has revealed that survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) are made to pay from GH¢300 to as much as GH¢1500 to obtain medical report from a health facility even though it contradicts provisions in...
Standard Chartered Bank (StanChart), in partnership with United Way Ghana - a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), marked the International Women’s Day (IWD) with ‘Goal’ activities for female pupils from the Kaneshie Bishop 1&2 primary and Junior High School (JHS). As part of the activities, 22 female staff from StanChart engaged 274...