Energy experts discussed the importance of gas for Africa’s current and future energy needs, pointing out that Gas will be critical for creating industry, manufacturing and attracting investment capital. With recent major gas discoveries in Tanzania, Mozambique, Senegal, Mauritania and South Africa, Africa is poised to use gas technologies that are faster, more reliable, more cost-effective and more environmentally-friendly than ...

Sheikh Aremeyaw Shuaib, Spokesperson for the National Chief Imam, has called on faith based organisation to intensify efforts to fight against the dangerous phenomenon of vigilantism in Ghana. He expressed worry about the growing trend of the incident and challenged well-meaning Ghanaians to join the fight and nib the phenomenon in the bud in order to safeguard the security and ...

Along Ghana’s 330 mile coastline, the ocean provides food and income for millions of people. In the last half-century, industrial vessels have flocked to these waters, trawling the sea for fish to export overseas. Now an illegal practice, known locally as saiko, is pushing Ghana’s fisheries to the brink. Saiko is the local name for a particularly destructive form of ...

Revenue Mobilization Africa, a not-for-profit organization has cautioned government, particularly the Ministry of Energy not to approve the Anadarko–Total SA deal until all taxes owed the state are duly paid. The organization in a statement issued in Accra by its Executive Director Geoffrey Kabutey Ocansey expressed concern about the many speculative news stories regarding the sale of Anadarko operations in ...

Twenty-five years after the historic Beijing women’s conference in China – a milestone in advancing equal rights – violence against women and girls is not only common, but widely accepted, a new UN report revealed on Wednesday. While there have been remarkable gains for girls in education, little headway has been made to help shape a more equal, less violent ...

Mr Kwame Agyeman-Budu, Managing Director of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), has warned the general public to desist from illegal power connections to their homes and places of work. He said such practices go against the laws of the land, hence culprits will be made to face the full riguor of the law if they are caught. Mr Agyeman-Budu ...

On the occasion of Ghana @63, I remember the brave, honest and selfless: John Mensah Sarbah, Paa Grant, Ephraim Amu, Esther Ocloo, Leticia Obeng and a few others. For them, it was not “me, my tribe and my party”. They placed nation and personal honour above wealth. With thoughtless policies by succeeding governments that have left millions on the breadline, ...

Government has been urged to support entrepreneurs and start-ups involved in developing profitable locally appropriate solutions to climate change. Ruka Sanusi, the Executive Director of the Ghana Climate Innovation Centre (GCIC), said this will accelerate the country’s development. She made the call at the annual thought leadership, Incubating and Innovation programme under the theme: ‘Innovation for our future”. Madam Sanusi noted ...

The Savannah Integrated Biodiversity Conservation Initiative (SIBC) project has been launched in the Savannah Regional capital of Damongo. The project was initiated by the Ghana Wildlife Society in collaboration with partners to support the implementation of sustainable management of the Mole National Park and peripheral areas, implemented under the European Union PAPBio program aimed at sound management of large landscape ...

Mr Benito Owusu-Bio, the Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, has called for concerted efforts to protect the ecology of the country’s landscapes and restore lost biodiversity. He said the country’s wildlife resources were no longer able to provide those essential services and called for conscious efforts to reverse the current trend in order not to deprive future generations ...