Breakdown of Govt’s Energy Sector Debt
Net debt owed banks and fuel suppliers alone under the energy sector debt hit 1.2 billion cedis at the end of 2016. According to documents cited by Citi Business News as at 31st December, 2016...
Tag: Volta River Authority
160 Million Cedis To Be Paid End of March
About 160 million cedis is expected to hit the accounts of banks that are owed the energy sector debts, by the end of March 2017. This is according to the President of the Ghana Association of...
Government Is On Schedule To Offsetting Energy Sector Levy – Alhassan Andani
Managing Director of Stanbic Bank Alhassan Andani has emphasised government’s commitment to ensuring that the energy sector levy is paid down as scheduled. According to him, government has released...
Ghc700 Debt Denies Tumu Residents Water
Residents of Tumu have been without water for the past six months due to a debt owed the Volta River Authority by the Water Board in that town. The debt which accrued over a period of two years is...
VRA Cuts Water Supply To Tumu Over GHC700 Debt
Residents of Tumu have been hit with water crisis for the past six months because of a GHC700.00 debt owed the Volta River Authority by the community’s Water Board. The debt which accrued over a...
Rawlings Supports Lower Volta Basin Authority
TRADITIONAL leaders and members of the inland fishing and aquaculture fraternity from the Lower Volta basin have proposed the establishment of an authority to address the challenges of the...
PIAC Needs Prosecutorial Powers – Stakeholders
As a statutory institution committed to ensuring efficient, transparent and accountable management of petroleum revenues and investments, the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) lacks...
PIAC Needs Prosecutorial Powers
As a statutory institution committed to ensuring efficient, transparent and accountable management of petroleum revenues and investments, the Public Interest Accountability Committee (PIAC) lacks the...
Rawlings Supports Call For Lower Volta Basin Authority
Traditional leaders and members of the inland fishing and aquaculture fraternity from the Lower Volta Basin have proposed the establishment of an authority to address the challenges of the...
Aquatic Weeds Pose Danger To Volta Basin – MP
Mr Kobena Mensah Woyome, Member of Parliament (MP) for South Tongu, has called on the Ministry of Water Resources and the Volta River Authority (VRA) to take a critical look at the problem of aquatic...
Declare State Owned Enterprises You Want To Sell
The Minority in Parliament has said the government must come clean on which state assets it intends selling off in its effort to raise GHS1.8billion through listing of those assets on the Ghana Stock...
Ofori-Atta Not Propagandist As Bawumia
Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta delivered the 2017 budget on Thursday, 2 March devoid of propaganda, the Minority in Parliament has said, and praised Mr Ofori-Atta for being different from Vice...
2017 ‘Asempa’ Budget
Hon. Speaker, Honourable Members of Parliament, on the authority of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, I beg to move that this Honourable House approves the Financial Policy of the Government of...
Will There Be Hope In Akufo-Addo’s Maiden Budget?
This morning, the Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Attah, will present to Parliament, the President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s maiden budget. Expectations are very high...
Capital Market Set To Blossom – Dusk Capital CEO
Ghana’s capital market is set to turn into a beehive of activity with the proposed listing of strategic state institutions on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE), Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Dusk...
‘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)...
Government Creating Artificial Dumsor – MP Claims
The Member of Parliament for Nkwanta North Constituency in the Volta Region, John Kwabena Oti Bless, has accused the Akufo-Addo-led government of creating artificial power crisis in the country....
Gov’t Creating Artificial Dumsor – MP Claims
The Member of Parliament for Nkwanta North Constituency in the Volta Region, John Kwabena Oti Bless, has accused the Akufo-Addo-led government of creating artificial power crisis in the country....
Stop Running All 6 Units of Akosombo Dam At Full Blast – Jinapor Warns
Former Deputy Minister of Power, John Jinapor, has warned managers of the power sector against the continuous running of all six units of the Akosombo Hydro Dam at full blast. According to him, the...
Tarzan ‘morally Unfit’ To Serve In Akufo-Addo Govt
A group calling itself Arise for Change & Development (AFCAD) has described former CEO of the Volta River Authority (VRA), Dr Charles Wereko-Brobby, who is on a two-year suspension from the New...