90% of Power Restored – ECG
The entire country was plunged into darkness on Wednesday night as a result of a system failure The Electricity of Company of Ghana (ECG) has revealed that 90 per cent of the areas that experienced...
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Rights Group Fears Gaza Fuel ‘catastrophe’
An Israeli rights group warned Thursday that cutting power to the Gaza Strip would have "catastrophic consequences" after Israel said the Palestinian Authority was refusing to pay the bill. Hit by...
Nigeria Football Fans Die Watching Man Utd
The fans were watching the match between Anderlecht and Manchester United Football fans, who had gathered to watch last night's Uefa Europa match between Manchester United and Anderlecht at a viewing...
ACEP Demands Details of PPAs Reviewed
The Africa Center for Energy Policy (ACEP) wants government to provide the details of the power purchase agreements (PPAs) reviewed within the past three months. At a Joy FM-organised event on...
Akufo-Addo To Develop New Master Plan To Fix Power Crisis
Ghana's new government is looking to fix a crippling power crisis with a complete overhaul of its deficit-ridden energy sector including a boost for solar energy. President Nana Akufo-Addo's New...
ECG Concession Will Have Implications On One-District One-Factory Policy
The General Secretary of the Public Utility Workers Union (PUWU) has warned that government's one district, one factory policy would suffer should the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) be a...
Ghana Seeks New Dawn For Struggling Power Sector
Ghana's new government is looking to fix a crippling power crisis with a complete overhaul of its deficit-ridden energy sector including a boost for solar energy. Intermittent power supply issues...
Fitch Backs Government’s Growth Target
Ghana's economy is expected to grow by 6.3 per cent in 2017, compared to 3.8 per cent growth rate realised in 2016, ratings agency Fitch’s subsidiary BMI has affirmed. According to BMI, “while...
You Can’t Expect Akufo-Addo To Fix Ghana Overnight
It is unthinkable for Ghanaians to want President Nana Akufo-Addo and his government to change things overnight after inheriting a messed up economy and a heavily indebted energy sector from the...
‘Dumsor’ Wouldn’t Have Returned Under NDC – John Jinapor
A former Deputy Minister for Power, John Jinapor, has said the current incessant power cuts in most parts of the country would never had happened under a National Democratic Congress (NDC)...
Energy Debt GHC1.3bn Not GHC2.4bn
Ghana’s energy sector debt is GHS1.3billion not GHS2.4billion as announced to parliament by President Nana Akufo-Addo during his maiden State of the Nation Address, former Deputy Energy Minister...
Energy Debt GHS1.3bn Not GHS2.4bn
Ghana’s energy sector debt is GHS1.3billion not GHS2.4billion as announced to parliament by President Nana Akufo-Addo during his maiden State of the Nation Address, former Deputy Energy Minister...
ACEP Demands Load Shedding Plan
Power outages that have rocked parts of the country have been projected to cease by the end of the first quarter of this year, but some Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have called for a power...
We’ll Fix the Economy – Bawumia
Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has said the NPP government is on track to fix the “ailing economy” it inherited from the previous NDC administration. Dr. Bawumia is optimistic that the...
Akufo-Addo Did ‘quite Well’ – Rawlings
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo performed well in his maiden State of the Nation Address to parliament on Tuesday February 21, former President Jerry John Rawlings has said. He told Paul Adom-Otchere,...
I’m Getting Frustrated Because of Akufo-Addo’s ‘dumsor’
Deputy National Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is making claims that Ghana is on standstill after the New Patriotic Party took over the management of the country. Speaking to...
Don’t List ‘strategic’ GRIDCo On GSE
State power transmitter Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) must not be listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) as planned by the Akufo-Addo government, energy think tank Africa Centre for Energy...
SONA: Nana Addo’s Address Empty
Former Vice President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur has described President Akufo-Addo’s state of the nation address delivered in Parliament Tuesday as one that contained nothing, but a list of...
Taxes, Levies On Electricity Tariff To Be Reduced – President Akufo-Addo
DESPITE a $2.4 billion debt that has crippled the energy sector, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has assured of reduce significantly some of the levies and taxes on electricity tariffs....
AngloGold Pays Dividend First Time In 3 Years
After more than three years of non-payment of dividends to its shareholders, mining giant AngloGold Ashanti is to resume payments after lower operating and interest costs helped it nearly double it...