April 2013

The 49-member group of least developed countries (LDCs) taking part in international negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) which began in Bonn, Germany Monday, April 29, 2012, has called for swift action…

The Chief Economist at the African Development Bank (AfDB) has described Ghana’s 12.1% budget deficit in 2012 as excessive. According to Prof Mthuli Ncube, any budget deficit that is above 7% is excessive for an African country. Prof…

Alhaji Limuna Mohammed- Muniru, Upper East Regional Minister, has stated that government was committed to promoting Ghana’s cultural diversity as an asset for national development. He said government would exploit and advance the…

Professor Emmanuel N. Abakah, Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba, has admonished founders of higher institutions of learning to avoid the tendency of trying to influence the decisions of their governing councils.…

A three-day training workshop on cyber crime and digital forensics for the corporate sector has ended in Accra with a call on participants to apply knowledge and skills gained, to solve the problem of cybercrime. The training was organized…

Ghana needs about 290,000 Point of Sale (PoS) terminals with an estimated investment of $145 million to push the country into the arena of a cashless economy, Ghana Commercial Bank boss said on Monday. PoS terminals, which have been…

The country’s electricity load management programme will come to an end first week of May 2013, a statement from the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum has assured. “…based on our current peak load demand and available generation capacity,…

Voting in the Kumbungu bye-election in the Northern Region, delayed in most of the polling stations due to late arrival of voting materials. Elections started at about 0800 hours in most of the polling stations at a slow pace with the…

ExxonMobil Grant Foundation has renewed its commitment to the fight against malaria with 10 million dollars bringing its total assistance to malaria to cover an 83 million people in Africa and the Pacific Rim. The commitment is again to…

Ghana’s slow pace of attaining a cashless society has been attributed to lack of clear national policy required to identify the main ‘driver’ that will bring on board all stakeholders. Currently there is no clear driver of the national…