The African Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) says that the energy sector outlook for 2017 presents significant levels of uncertainty, urging political parties to clearly demonstrate how they intend to confront the…
Tullow Oil says it has successfully completed the six-monthly redetermination of its Reserve Based Lend (RBL) facility. RBL is a type of financing where a loan is secured by the undeveloped reserves…
Ghana’s contingent to the 2016 edition of the Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI), hosted at the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria (ASCON) Badagry in Lagos, Nigeria have topped the awards scheme organised…
Ghana’s biggest indigenous bank, GN Bank, has added another branch to its outlets bringing its number of branches to 269. The Yesunkwa branch, which is near Elmina in the Central Region including…
The Ghana National Gas Company has ruled out significant interruptions in power supply following Tullow oil’s reduction of gas supply to it. Corporate Communications Manager of Ghana Gas Alfred Ogbamey in an…
President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday announced that government has acquired 10,000 hectares of land to resettle livestock farmers around the Afram plains. He said apart from solving the issue of farmland…
The Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) is to raise five billion dollars to transform the savannah ecological zone as part of its master development plan. Out of the amount, two billion dollars…
Minority in parliament has criticised the President Mahama led National Democratic Congress (NDC) government over a high interest loan facility being offered to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). As parliament approves…
The government has revived talks with the China Development Bank (CDB) for the remainder of the almost US$2 billion loan facility it abandoned in 2014. The government suspended discussions with the Chinese…
The Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors (CBOD), wants government to expedite processes of providing funding for the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) to meet the new sulphur specification content for imported diesel. It…
The Institute Energy Studies (IES) has published its bi-weekly forecast of the petroleum market, projecting that petrol and diesel prices will remain ‘fairly stable’ in the first November pricing window. “With the…
Access Bank’s hopes of raising at least GH¢104million on the local capital market is a boost to investors who are always yearning for more securities to invest in. Many analysts have hailed…
As part of its 10th anniversary Fidelity Bank has organized a tw- day training workshop for its Small and Medium Scale Enterprise (SME) clients) The training, according to the Bank was also…
Ghana has moved an impressive 13 places up on the Trading Across Borders in the latest World Bank Ease of Doing Business Report, an indication that the Ghana National Single Window (GNSW)…
Ghana is ready to handle any oil spillage should such an incidence happen. This is the assertion by authorities of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). According to the agency, various governmental bodies…
The CEO of Vodafone Ghana, Yolanda Cuba, is urging the Ministry of Trade and Industry to intensify its supervisory role in reducing cable theft in the country. Madam Cuba believes the continuous…
Government has embarked on an exercise to reconstruct and re-engineer all old markets to avoid perennial fire outbreaks in some of the facilities, President John Dramani Mahama has announced. “Under the programme,…
The United Nations Environment Programme, (UNEP), has ruled out possible job losses in an attempt to reconfigure national refineries to meet acceptable standards for sulphur contents for diesel. According to UNEP, adjusting…
The Minister of Finance, Seth Terkper has indicated that government will continue to use revenue from the country’s oil and gas resources to pay its borrowing. “We are going to continue to…
Finance Minister Seth Terkper has revealed that government will lose about GHS1billion if some new taxes introduced are scrapped. The minister who dispelled accusations that he tax-happy indicated that the taxes imposed…