GAWU rejects reduction of cocoa prices in Ghana
The General Agricultural Workers’ Union (GAWU) has opposed suggestions that government reviews downwards the producer price for cocoa to offset any drop in revenue...
SSNIT increases minimum pension benefit to GH¢303
Existing pensioners with the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) will from January 2018 enjoy ten percent increase in the benefits paid by...
Analysts urge private sector involvement in TOR
Analysts in the oil and gas sector are upbeat about government’s plans to revamp operations of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR).
Though they have largely...
Uganda: Power Firms Plan to Invest Billions Next Financial Year
By Jeff Mbanga
Umeme, Eskom, UEDCL, UETCL and UEGCL have submitted investment plans for 2018 to the Electricity Regulatory Authority, all of them signalling an...
Nigeria: Senate Blames NNPC, Marketers Over Fuel Scarcity
The Senate Committee on Petroleum Downstream has blamed the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and marketers over short supply of the petroleum products in...
Gov’t clears one billion cedis arrears to road contractors
Government has paid over one billion Ghana Cedis within the past 11 months to road contractors as outstanding arrears for work executed during the...
ECOWAS has long way to go
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has been in existence for the past 42 years. It has 16 states. However, its functions...
Africa’s top 10 most food-secure countries …Ghana ranked 8th
FINDING enough to eat has been an ages-old challenge for Africans. Against a physical environment often hostile to agricultural and pastoral activity – deserts,...
