The Nana Akufo-Addo-led administration should follow through with the plan for coal power and consolidate the gains made in the power sector, to bring down tariffs for industry, Former Deputy Power...
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E/R: Ghana Tourism Authority Shuts Down Illegal Hostels
The Ghana Tourism Authority in the Eastern region on Monday commenced an exercise to shut down unapproved student hostels and hotels in the region. Some fifteen hostels in Koforidua and a hotel at...
GTA Shuts Down 15 Private Hostels In Koforidua
Students of Koforidua Technical University (KTU) are expected to hassle for hostel accommodations when school re-opens on February 10. This is because the Ghana Tourism Authority in the Eastern...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have been advised to take advantage of the domestic market opportunities to trade more with itself. This, according Mr Gilbert Nii-Okai Addy, an...
Ghana To Ban Production, Import of Mercury Products By 2020
Ghana, together with other countries, will, by 2020, ban the production, exportation and importation of some mercury-containing products. The products include dry cell batteries, switches and relays,...
Gov’t To Pursue Economic Diplomacy
The Minister of Foreign Affairs designate, Ms Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, has said that Ghana’s foreign missions will pursue an economic diplomacy policy to attract foreign direct investments and...
Akufo-Addo Must Use Diplomacy To Get Nigeria To Sign EPA – Alan Kyerematen
The Minister of Trade and Industry-designate, Alan Kyerematen has reaffirmed Ghana’s commitment to sign the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), insisting that Ghana would have to impress on...
Akufo-Addo Must Use Diplomacy To Get Nigeria To Sign EPA – Alan
The Minister of Trade-designate, Alan Kyerematen has reaffirmed Ghana’s commitment to sign the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), insisting that Ghana would have to impress on Nigeria to also...
Prof. Alabi Denies Giving Permit To Fuel Station At UPSA
The former Vice-Chancellor of the University for Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), Professor Joshua Alabi, has denied permitting Strategic Energies Limited (SEL), to build a fuel service station...
I Didn’t Permit Fuel Station At UPSA – Prof. Alabi
The former Vice-Chancellor of the University for Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), Professor Joshua Alabi has denied permitting Strategic Energies Limited (SEL) to build a fuel service station...
UPSA Students Express Concern About Siting of Fuel Station
The Students Representative Council (SRC) of the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) has raised eyebrows over the existence of a filling station less than three metres from the...
UPSA Students Threaten To Close Down Fuel Station Near School
Students of the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) are protesting against the siting of a SEL filling station behind their school and have vowed to close it down on their own if prompt...
15 Things NPP Can Do Differently For the Environment
15 things NPP can do differently for the environment By Akua Akyaa Change has come and everyone seems to be happy. Everyone except the outgoing government, I suppose. But to whom much is given, much...
15 Things NPP Can Do Differently For the Environment [Article]
Change has come and everyone seems to be happy. Everyone except the outgoing government, I suppose. But to whom much is given, much is expected and the newly sworn in New Patriotic Party (NPP) is no...
Six Former VW Execs Indicted As Carmaker Agrees To Pay Record Fine Over Emissions Scandal
Volkswagen has agreed to plead guilty to U. S. charges it cheated on diesel emissions tests for a decade, accepting the largest fine on an automaker ever, while a federal grand jury indicted six...
Two Professional Bodies To Audit Gas Explosion Report
Two professional bodies, the Ghana Institute of Architects (GIA) and the Ghana Institution of Engineers (GhIE), are to conduct independent audits into the investigative report on the gas explosion at...
‘Galamsey’, A Scary Sight In Atiwa
After a recent three-week visit to my hometown in the Atiwa District, I have spent sleepless nights agonising and grieving over the incalculable damage which the Chinese are inflicting on our...
Hoteliers Want 17.5% VAT Slashed
Members of the Ghana Hotels Association have cautioned the new government to live by its promise and reduce the current 17.5 % VAT rate to the 3% Flat Rate within the first quarter of the year. They...
‘Orientate Incoming Government Appointees’
Incoming government appointees should be taken through orientation before they take over officially from the outgoing government. Such appointees should not take over specific offices immediately a...
Tread Cautiously – IMANI To Akufo-Addo
The incoming New Patriotic Party (NPP) government must act with circumspection regarding calls by groups for the abrogation of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between Ghana and European...