The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) has again raised concern that government reviews exploration contracts of companies that have failed to invest in their oil blocks.
About 12 oil agreements awarded prior to 2016 are said to be idle. Delay in exploring and developing these blocks, ACEP contends, is...
The Chartered Institute of Marketing, Ghana (CIMG) on Monday launched the 2019 CIMG Annual National Marketing Performance Awards.
The launch, which was for the first time, held virtually via Microsoft Teams, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, attracted participation from the media, marketing research community, academia and membership of the CIMG.
In...
Leading human resource recruitment platform Jobberman Ghana is taking Customer Service appreciation to a whole new level with a planned Customer Service Week.
The exercise according to the company is to help boost morale, motivation, and teamwork as well as reward frontline representatives and raise company-wide awareness on Customer Service.
The...
The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) has called on government to initiate punitive measures against contractors who execute shoddy works on oil-funded projects.
PIAC, which has oversight responsibility over the management of the country’s petroleum revenues, has noted with concern the practice of some contractors doing sub-standard works defeating...
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The Conduct of Our Financial Affairs by: Kofi Adjepong-Boateng
Harold James’s new history of the Bank of England was probably written for a general audience: it lacks the academic apparatus of other bank histories. The book describes the changes made by the Bank of England...
The world has changed dramatically over the last six months with COVID-19 reshaping everything familiar and predictable into uncertainty. A truly global crisis, the pandemic is expected to trigger the worst recession since the Great Depression impacting hundreds of thousands of people.
Yet, one industry, while initially impacted, has remained...
Global Media Alliance (GMA), a market leader in Integrated Marketing Communications, will focus on the influence of Digital Media on the 2020 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections amidst COVID-19 for the fourth edition of the GMA Webinar Series. This edition comes after three successful previous versions in the series.
The webinar...
The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) for its efforts to combat hunger.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee said the WFP had acted "as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict".
The...
Mr. Frank Tony Eshun, founding member and managing partner of LogiPro Consult Ghana Limited, a leading consultancy firm specialized in logistics, projects, oil and gas logistics and trade services has been elected Chairperson of Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers (ICS), West Africa Branch.
Prior to Logipro, Frank, a fellow of ICS...
Farmers in the affected communities of the proposed Newmont Ghana Ahafo North project have expressed worry about what they describe as “machinations” by the mining company in the pre-production compensation procedures to cheat them.
The farmers claim Newmont is scheming to shortchange them by adopting exploitive steps of negotiation, therefore...