A Scottish power producing firm, Aggreko plc, has secured a provisional licence from the Energy Commission to develop a power plant at Esiama, in the Ellembelle District. The company has already acquired a 27-acre land at Esiama from the traditional authorities, and ... Read More

The Ministry of local Government in collaboration with the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) has launched the Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) project to promote climate change resilience in communities. The project, which would benefit 10 districts in the ... Read More

The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the International Cocoa Organisation (ICCO) have repositioned themselves to boost business opportunities in Africa’s cocoa sector, including youth employment and empowering women participation. The two institutions met in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, to strategise for cooperation to ... Read More

The World Bank today announced a total of $550 million in financial support to Ghana. The two types of financing would go into budget support and future external debt financing. In a news release issued Wednesday July 1, 2015, and copied ... Read More

The Kingdom of the Netherlands through UNICEF has launched a € 5.9 million Euros project aimed at improving access to sanitation with a focus on urban areas. A statement issued by Monica Arach, External Relations and Fundraising Specialist, UNICEF, and copied ... Read More

The International Police in Germany has intercepted an oil tanker, MT Ceilo Di Milano that was carrying stolen crude from Saltpond Offshore Producing Company Limited (SOPCL). According to a correspondence between Addo Atuah & Company, Solicitors of SOPCL, and the Director-General ... Read More

Professor Nii Narku Quaynor Professor Nii Narku Quaynor, Chair of the Internet Society (ISOC) Ghana Chapter and Africa Internet pioneer has been awarded the 2015 ICANN Multi-stakeholder Ethos Award during the opening ceremony of ICANN 53 in Buenos Aires. A statement ... Read More

A project, “Taking Cowpeas to Scale in West Africa,” aimed at improving the cowpea seed sector in the three Northern Regions has taken off. The three-year project (2015 – 2017) being sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), ... Read More

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), says in 2014, the global potential opium production reached 7,554 tons – the second highest level since the 1930s. The rise it says is mainly due to its cultivation increasing significantly in ... Read More

Dr. Kodzo K. Alabo, Ghana’s Ambassador to the Federation (left), Mr. Alexander Novak, Minister for Energy of Russia, and Emmanuel Kofi Buah, Ghana Minister of Energy. The Minister of Energy has been to the Russia Federation to discuss the involvement ... Read More