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The Energy Commission (EC) has expressed concern over the alarming rate at which climate change is causing damage to the country’s energy infrastructure, threatening to disrupt the stability of power supply. It said rising sea levels and storm surges in the coastal areas were damaging pillions that carried high tension cables and thermal plants that provided 58 per cent power ...

The Chairman of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC), Dr Steve Manteaw, has raised concerns with the overall management of the country’s oil revenue, calling on the government to publicly explain how the money was being used. According to him, although the country’s law states that 70 per cent of the revenue should go into capital expenditure, the chunk ...

The counter-terrorism division of the police has arrested nine members of a highly sophisticated and armed land guard syndicate. The gang engaged a fierce gun battle with the police at Kokrobite, a suburb of Accra, on Friday afternoon. There were no casualties but the police say the fighting went on in the open for more than two hours before police subdued them. ...

An academic and legal practitioner, Mr Ernest Kofi Abotsi, has condemned bullying in schools, saying it should be discouraged because it destroys the future of students. “Bullying demoralises students and destroys the ego and confidence of others.   The scars of bullying have been physically written on some and psychologically imprinted on the minds of others,” he said. Anniversary lecture ...

Director, Technology Programme at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Professor Samuel Mensah Sackey has called on the Government to help establish Ghana’s maiden Technology Park at KNUST, to help transform the nation into major technology giant. A Technology Park is an area where companies have offices and laboratories and do work involving science and technology. Prof Sackey ...

A Deputy Minister of Communications, Mr George Andah, has advised institutions managing personal data to help prevent identity theft by taking extreme caution in how such data are used. “There is the need to protect personal data and the right to privacy.   It is vital that personal data held by organisations, businesses and government institutions are accurate and used ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has started discussions aimed at introducing chip-embedded passports to keep up the pace of technological advancement and enhance the security of Ghanaian passports, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Ms Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has said.   Additionally, she said there were plans to introduce 48-page passports to satisfy the needs ...

Government has unveiled two separate funds – the Green and Delivery Funds – intended to generate monies to facilitate Ghana’s attainment of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The initiative is being undertaken by the CEOs Advisory Group on SDG established by President Akufo-Addo to help generate resources to fund projects. The selected CEOs from various corporate organisations ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated emphatically that “aid can never develop the African continent”. The continent he says must get to work if she is to develop to meet the aspirations of her peoples. Addressing the 2019 African Governors of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (African Caucus) meeting at the Kempinski Gold Coast Hotel on the ...

The Government has announced immediate suspension of the concession agreement with Power Distribution Services (PDS) Ghana Limited. A press statement signed by the Information Minister, Mr. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, said the decision followed the detection of “fundamental and material breaches” of the company’s obligation in the provision of Payment Securities (Demand Guarantees) for the transaction. The breaches, it added, were ...