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Commercial production of oil in Ghana is due to start in barely two months – in November or December, but a $225 million political risk guarantee contract for the Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel is still…

Virgin Atlantic will increase the frequency of its flights from Ghana to the UK during the winter peak period. Information available to ghanabusinessnews.com says the flights will go from the current three a week to four. It also…

Ghana is on course to become the first African country to achieve the first target (MDG l) of halving poverty and hunger by 2015, says a report released by the British Overseas Development Institute. According to the report, "Ghana had…

Vice President John Dramani Mahama, on Monday stated that revenue from oil alone cannot transform Ghana into a middle income status by the projected 2015 timetable. He therefore expressed the need for the country to strengthen its…

The Parliamentary Select Committee for Employment, Social Welfare and State Enterprises has urged the government to formulate a clear policy to mitigate floods including negotiation with the government of Burkina-Faso on the management of…

The Council for Afrika International, a UK-based think tank has called on the United Nations General Assembly, to declare a state of emergency in Africa to address the prolonged and bloody conflicts that has hit the continent. The council…

The Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Dr. Kwabena Duffuor has inaugurated a nine-member Ghana Revenue Authority Board (GRA) and charged members to pursue excellence and distinction in the performance of their duties in the face…

The Ghana Tourist Board (GTB) has stressed the need to adopt viable and sustainable measures to protect the Owabi Dam which supplies treated water to about 13 per cent of the population in the Kumasi metropolis. Mr Ekow Sampson, the…

A team of military and police personnel from Koforidua and Suhum, have arrested eight galamsey operators, who took over a piece of land belonging to the Abuakwa State College and Community School for the Deaf at Kyebi for mining. The…

The Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Development Authority (MiDA), Mr Martin Eson-Benjamin, has stated that Ghana will continue to face economic challenges if its natural resources are not fully exploited to create the needed…