The Liberian government has announced that it is in the final stages of securing a U.S. $1.6 billion Indonesian investment in palm oil production which is expected to create 35,000 jobs.
In a Wednesday presentation on the "Intersection of Energy and the Economy," Elizabeth Cheney of Shell outlined three energy realities: the demand for energy will double by 2050, "easy energy," or fossil fuels, is gone, and emission stress and carbon solutions are a priority.
The Ministry of Works has rushed to seal potholes near the Najjembe campsite in Mabira Forest Reserve where former Budiope MP Joseph Balikoowa met is death on Sunday night.
The 6000 megawatts of electricity promised by President Umaru Yar'adua at the end of the year is inadequate for the country, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) elder in Kaduna State has said.
The Vice President of Ghana, H.E. John Dramani Mahama, has called on the West African sub region and the continent as a whole to engage in partnership without borders to help accelerate infrastructure development within the continent.
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), through the World Friends Korea Programme, has donated 25 computers to support an ICT project at Karume Institute of Science and Technology in Zanzibar.
Brick and tile manufacturers in the Brong-Ahafo Region have called on the government to come out with a policy that would help sustain the industry, since most of the manufacturing companies are on the verge of collapsing, due to the low patronage of their products.
Vodafone Ghana has officially opened its first Internet Café at Cantonment in Accra. The Internet Cafe, together with a Wifi area has Wifi hotspot and a seating capacity for 100 customers. The facility provides a world class high speed internet services at a cost of GH¢2.5 per an hour, guaranteeing customers value for their money.
Following the success of amnesty programme in the Niger Delta region, a firm, Dag Group Germany/United Kingdom, said it has concluded arrangement to partner with the Federal Government with a view to investing $30 billion on human and infrastructural development in the region.
As the cause of 1 death every 6 hours (with the economically active at most risk) and costing an equivalent to 1.6% of Ghana's GDP, road carnage presents a significant barrier to Ghana's development agenda. It is the gravity of this problem that made the road safety conference (held on the 4th and 5th November) in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC) ...
When the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) released its Palm Oil Buyers' Scorecard on 28 October 2009, a stark situation was brought to the world's attention: despite the availability of safe, earth-friendly palm oil options, Western companies were not meeting commitments to purchase those alternatives.
AFRICA'S economic growth and poverty reduction are closely linked with the quality of its infrastructure - its power, transport systems, water supply and sanitation, and its ICT networks.
The infrastructure concession regulatory commission Act 2005 provides for the participation of private sector in financing the construction, development, operation, or maintenance of infrastructure or development projects of the Federal Government through concession or contractual arrangements; and the establishment of the infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission to regulate, monitor and ...
The sorry state of roads in the South East has drawn the ire of a youth organisation known as Odimma Ndigbo Youth Movement which has given the Federal Government up till the first quarter of next year to fix all the dilapidated federal roads in the zone or face the wrath of the people.
Internet search giant, Google, has published its 2009 Zeitgeist, a list of the most popular topics online.
