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Small-scale gold miner drowns in discarded Ghana pit
A 27-year old small-scale miner at the weekend drowned in a deep open mining pit at Abodom in the Bekwai Municipality of Ghana.
Kwaku Nsiah fell into the pit whilst returning home at the close of work at about 1800 hours.
The body of the…
GETFUND spends GH¢61m on infrastructure in two years
The Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFUND) has for the past two years spent GH¢61.048 million to support infrastructure development in all 38 Colleges of Education in the country.
Mr Stephen Baffoe, Public Relation Manager of the GETFUND,…
Ghana’s Agric Minister terminates AfDB-IFAD funded road project contract
Mr Kwesi Ahwoi , Minister of Food and Agriculture, on Sunday terminated a 13- kilometer feeder road being executed by Adam Mahama Co. Ltd.
The contractor incurred the wrath of the Minister during an evaluation tour to inspect road…
Ghana Metro Mass Transit’s 100 new buses worth $7.6m – Indian Manufacturer
The Metro Mass Transit Limited of Ghana last month May 2012 inaugurated 100 new buses for its transport operations in the country.
Ashok Leyland, a flagship company of the Hinduja Group based in India, who supplied the buses known as…
Stanbic Income Fund to hold first Annual General Meeting
Stanbic Income Fund (SIF), one of Ghana’s leading provident funds, will hold its first annual general meeting (AGM) in Accra on Tuesday, June 12, 2012.
The meeting is to adopt a number of resolutions including the financials of the fund…
Ghana to host 10th Pan African Meeting on Tsetsefly
Ghana will host the 10th Pan African Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Eradication Campaign (PATTEC) National Coordinators’ Meeting in Accra on Wednesday, June 13, 2012.
The three-day meeting, which is being organised by PATTEC Coordination Unit…
Mining companies in Ghana make $4.6b revenue from gold sales in 2011
Revenue made from gold mined in Ghana and sold on the international market was $4.6 billion in 2011, up from $3.6 billion in 2010, according to figures released June 6, 2012 by the Ghana Chamber of Mines.
Despite a fall in gold production…
Internal Audit Agency holds final consultations on Act amendment
The Internal Audit Agency on Monday held its final consultative forum for the amendment of the Act establishing the Agency to deal with deficiencies and implementation challenges hampering performance.
The forum was to consolidate views…
UNIDO to hold workshop for stakeholders in Ghana’s fruit and vegetable sector
The United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) will host stakeholders in the fruit and vegetable sector in a day’s workshop in Accra sector on Tuesday, June 13.
The workshop is to help identify conformity assessment gaps in…
Businesses must make themselves attractive to banks for funds – Investment banker
Head of Investment Banking Project Financing Unit at Stanbic Bank, Ms Celiwe Ntuli has observed that the business community was not focusing on factors that would attract banks to support their businesses.
“Making profit is not a guarantee…