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The Speaker of Parliament Edward Doe Adjaho has expressed the need for consensus building among all the Arms of Government, and cautioned that one constitutional body should never be allowed to...
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Speaker Calls For National Consensus Building
The Speaker of Parliament Edward Doe Adjaho has expressed the need for consensus building among all the Arms of Government, and cautioned that one constitutional body should never be allowed to...
Ghana Marks 47th World Standards Day
The Ghana Standard Authority (GSA) has marked the 47th World Standards Day on the theme: “Standards Build Trust.” The day is set aside to honour people who worked to develop standards that...
Maintaining the Right Standards Key To Promoting Progress
Dr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, Minister of Trade and Industry, says maintaining the right standards in all spheres of life is key to promoting quality, efficiency and progress. “Cutting corners in order to...
CDH Savings and Loans Picks Silver Award
CDH Savings and Loans Limited (formerly Ivory Finance Company), a subsidiary of CDH Financial Holdings Limited, has won a silver award for its contribution to development of the banking and financial...
Competition Forced Cement Price Drop In Ghana – Trade Ministry
The Minister of Trades and Industry, Ekow Spio-Garbrah has explained that prices of cement in the country have reduced appreciably due to moves by government to boost competition in the sector....
Local Cement Supply Short of Demand – Spio Garbrah
The Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Ekwow Spio Garbrah has told Citi Business News Ghana does not possess the capacity yet to provide the needed quantity of cement to satisfy the country’s...
Trade Minister Defends Cement Imports From China
Trade and Industry Minister, Dr. Ekwow Spio Garbrah has clarified that the cement regulation law was set up to regulate the import of cement into the country and not to totally ban them as being...
Cement Manufacturers Angry With Spio-Garbrah Over ‘unfair Trade’ Practices
The Association of Cement Manufacturers of Ghana, (CMAG), is demanding an immediate apology from the Trade and Industry Minister, Dr. Ekwow Spio Garbrah, for allegedly granting permits to some...
Cement Manufacturers Mad At Spio-Garbrah
The Cement Manufacturers Association of Ghana (CMAG) has expressed dismay at Minister of Trade & Industry, Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, for offering a permit to a Chinese to import 500,000 metric tons of...
Galamsey Not Affecting Sugarcane Supply To Komenda Sugar Factory
The Corporate Affairs Director at the Komenda Sugar Factory Ransford Vani-Amoah has revealed that activities of illegal miners will not affect the supply of raw materials for the Komenda Sugar...
Spio-Garbrah Persuades Ghanaians Over ‘Made In Ghana’ Campaign
The Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr. Ekow Spio-Garbrah says persuasion and appeal to the national pride, will culminate in achieving the objectives of the made in Ghana campaign. Though the...
Investors Urged To Explore West African Markets
Investors across the globe have been urged to explore the large pool of opportunities in the West Africa sub-region. According to Senior Partner and Head of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Ghana, ?Mr...
Galamsey’s Impact On Komenda Sugar Factory Untenable – Dr. Ato Arthur
The Member of Parliament(MP) for Komenda Edina Eguafo Abirem (KEEA), Dr. Ato Arthur, has shot down assertions that galamsey activities should be blamed for challenges at the Komenda Sugar factory. It...
Galamsey Threatens Komenda Sugar Factory
The Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr. Ekwow Spio Garbrah has bemoaned the activities of illegal miners(galamsey) as it threatens the smooth operations of the Komenda Sugar Factory. According to...
Procurement of Made-In-Ghana Goods To Become Mandatory
The Ministry of Trade and Industry is considering enacting legislation that will make it mandatory for public institutions to procure made-in-Ghana goods and services. The move is to ensure that...
Mahama’s Promises Not For Electoral Gains – Spio-Garbrah
The National Democratic Congress says the promises being made by its flag-bearer, President John Mahama, at his 2016 campaign tours of the country are not for electoral gains. Trade and Industry...
Spio Garbrah Stabs Cement Producers
Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, Minister of Trade & Industry, is said to be busily issuing cement licences to Chinese importers to import substandard cement even before a nine-member committee mandated by...
Complete Biography & Profile of Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, President of Dominion University College
Ekwow Spio-Garbrah (born 1953) is a citizen of Ghana and currently the CEO of The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) based in London. He is one of Africa's pre-eminent civil servants,...
Where Are the Instant ID Cards Promised in October 2014?
There are fears that the identity crisis facing the country due to the lack of a credible register of all Ghanaians to serve as the singular reference source is a recipe for chaos, especially...