GOIL Board Chairman Kwamina Bartels has given the strongest indication yet that the state oil player is ready to be a major player in the upstream oil industry.
Mr. Bartels made this disclosure when he addressed the 49th AGM of the Ghana Oil Company Limited (GOIL) in Accra. This development...
World Press Freedom Day is 3rd May. This year’s theme is ‘Keeping Power in Check: Media, Justice and The Rule of Law'. It’s being celebrated here in Accra, Ghana. That makes it a good time to explore the themes and how they interconnect locally here in Ghana and globally...
First Deputy Speaker, Joseph Osei-Owusu, has stated that a consignment of cocoa beans destined for Japan has been rejected because of high residue levels.
Osei-Owusu indicated that the detection of metals in the consignment could be as a result of chemicals used by ‘galamsey’ operators in extracting gold from cocoa-growing...
On March 21, 2017, 44 African leaders gathered at Kigali, Rwanda, to sign the framework that establishes the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCTFA) - aimed at creating a single continental market for goods and services as well as a Customs union with free movement of capital and business...
Government has been advised to prioritise local content and local participation in awarding upstream petroleum contracts, as it prepares to launch its first-ever bidding round in the growing industry.
Government announced recently that it will be issuing new licences to deserving companies by the fourth quarter of this year, during...
The price of imported fresh tomatoes has sharply increased, as traders now have to travel up north to neighbouring Burkina Faso to buy fresh tomatoes for sale on the local market.
This perennial shortage of the vegetable and reliance on Ghana’s northern neighbour to meet local demand for the commodity...
Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, Ignatius Baffour Awuah has announced that government has from January 2017 and March, 2018 has created over one million(1million) jobs in the formal sector.
He made this assertion during the May Day celebrations in Kumasi on Tuesday.
Mr. Baffour Awuah said the jobs, which are...
Raaaaid. Kills insects dead! That is the advertising message of one of the insecticides on the market. The rains will soon come, and we cannot afford to keep our drains choked. Choked drains have always been breeding ground for mosquitoes which drain our blood. You can imagine the feeling...
Despite the ever-widening housing deficit of the country, investment banker and Chief Executive Officer of Databank, Kojo Addae-Mensah, has said that people looking to invest in the real estate sector could be disappointed as the sector may not be as profitable as it is made to seem.
Mr. Addae-Mensah, speaking...
Ivory Coast will stop distributing hybrid seedlings and other advanced technologies that help cocoa farmers improve yields to cut overproduction that has weighed on cocoa prices, according to a letter by the regulator sent to exporters.
“We inform you of our decision to suspend the distribution of improved plant material...











