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Ghana currently has adequate capacity for cross border transmission of energy to neighbouring countries. This is because the implementation of regional projects, including the 225kv Bolgatanga-Ouagadougou Interconnection, which would allow for the export of power from Ghana to Burkina Faso, to serve the purpose of the creation of the West …

Ghana Currently Has Adequate Capacity For Cross Border Transmission Of Energy To Neighbouring Countries. This is because the implementation of regional projects, including the 225kv Bolgatanga-Ouagadougou Interconnection, which would allow for the export of power from Ghana to Burkina Faso, to serve the purpose of the creation of the West …

The Petroleum Commission has secured a partnership with Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) to deliver work-based education to the oil and gas industry in Ghana. The agreement, which was signed on Monday, October 2, 2018 with GCU, will provide educational support and help in strategically positioning Ghana’s oil and gas industry. …

Managing Director of the Cocoa Marketing Company, Joe Forson, has rubbished the Minority’s claims that government is shortchanging cocoa farmers by deciding to maintain the producer price of cocoa for the 2018/2019 crop season. The Minority has accused government of being insensitive to the plight of cocoa farmers, after it …

The processes for the review of tariffs have begun with a directive to the utility companies to make their proposals available in order for it to be captured in a newly developed template for the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC). The utility companies have up to the end of October …

Bayport Savings and Loans has rewarded 10 teachers for using innovative ways to teach in their various schools. The teachers were selected from some schools across the country. The Bayport Teacher Innovation Competition is an initiative from Bayport Savings and Loans, in collaboration with Reach for Change. The competition seeks …

Ghana’s economy is now valued at GH¢256.6 billion after the rebasing of gross domestic product (GDP) based on measurements from 2013 instead of 2006. This is the second time in less than 10 years that the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) is rebasing GDP figures in the country. The exercise is …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has stated that, over the last 21 months Ghana’s economy has been revived, with the various macroeconomic indices all pointing in the right direction. Addressing the Ghanaian community in Washington DC, on Friday, 28th September, 2018, President Akufo-Addo noted that, prior to his assumption of …

At the shore of the Elmina beach is an $11 million fish processing plant which was intended to bring lasting relief to the fishing communities in the area. Fisher folks believed, during the setting up of the plant, that the processing plant would improve their income levels by reducing post-harvest …

Menzgold Ghana Limited’s payment of extra values on its customers gold deposits appears to be in limbo. This is as a result of the confusion between the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) and Menzgold Ghana Limited over SEC’s claim of irregularities in the company’s operations. In an interview with the media …