Governor Peter Obi has said that the establishment of Microsoft Academy in many of the state -owned Secondary Schools was aimed at increasing job opportunities for students after school. Governor Obi spoke at the tenth anniversary of Cor Mariae Girls' Secondary School, Nkpor.
The Civil and Local Government Association - Ghana (CLOGSAG), have started raising issues with the Single Spine Pay Policy (SSPP) which is set to take off in January next year. The group claims that its recommendations were not incorporated into the final report, which led to the issuance of a white paper on the policy by the government.
The Government of Ghana announced in its 2010 Budget and Policy Statement the plan to develop an Oil and Gas Industrialization Plan as a sustainable model of managing her petroleum resources. The oil and gas driven industrialization is expected to make Ghana's oil a blessing. For this reason, the government plans to use oil and gas resources to boost the manufacturing and agricultural sectors, ...
Leading global development and Africa advocacy groups reacted with outrage today to news that a London court recently awarded two Vulture Funds a $20 million judgment against Liberia. This amount of money represents the country’s entire education budget and 150% of their spending on health in 2008.
One of the leading Global Service Network (GSM) companies in , Cellcom, has announced a new number series.
In its bid to buttress the Government of Liberia's Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) initiative in the country, one of 's leading GSM Companies, the LoneStar Communications Company (LCC) has provided over 200 job opportunities for Liberian students to help facilitate their tuition payment.
The recent smuggling of cocoa beans to neighboring countries by Ghanaian farmers has attracted debate in Ghana's Parliament. Whilst the majority side in Parliament strongly sided with government's intervention to improve on the living conditions of cocoa farmers by increasing cocoa producer price by 71.06%, those on the minority believe that the intervention was a mere rhetoric.
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.
Newmont Ghana Gold Limited, as part of its commitment to demonstrate leadership in social responsibility, has handed over 4-unit teachers' quarters to the Asutifi District Education Directorate at Dokyikrom.
The Sierra Leone government is roping in the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) to expand microfinance program in the country.
The goods and services tax department of the national revenue authority (NRA) yesterday presented 30 business people with GST certificates at the authority's head office at Wellington Street in Freetown.
Ousman Sonko, the minister of Interior, has described money laundering, terrorism financing and other related financial crimes as amongst the major threats to the global economic system.
The US$4.4 Banjul-Serrekunda Road rehabilitation project, which is being funded by the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan), is currently in progress with the sealing of major cracks as the first phase of the project.
Edrissa Mass Jobe, has been appointed as the new Chairman of FIBank with a mandate to turnaround the Bank and enhance the brand and reputation.
A two-week training on Information Technology (IT), organised by the Judiciary in collaboration with the UNDP office in Banjul, yesterday kicked off at the Management Development Institute (MDI), in Kanifing.
The organisers of the 2009 trade fair have described this year's event as a successful one compared to the previous one.
An unidentified female prisons officer was on Tuesday morning crushed to death by a tipper vehicle at Pasali community in Kuje Area Council.
Nigeria Eagle and the American airlines, Delta Airways, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to expand air travel between North America and Nigeria.
The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said that it has already commenced with its new retail plan to partner with independent and private filling station owners within the country where it will take over the stations in order to sustain steady fuel supply.
Lucky Fibres Plc, manufacturers of Nobel Carpets & Rugs has investment N1 billion into a new yarn plant facility that will see them produce at least 500 tonnes of rug carpets per month.
Minister of State for FCT, Chief Chuka Odom, Tuesday commissioned four rural communities electrification projects at Kuje Area Council.
Nigeria earns N900 billion from Bonga oil field in the past four years, Managing Director of Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Chike Onyejekwe has said.
The Indian government has donated desk top computers and other accessories to the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA)'s Directorate of Information and Communication Technology which was commissioned yesterday by Air Marshal Paul Dike, the Chief of Defence Staff.
With few days to the end of the year, the Minister of State for Finance, Mr. Remi Babalola yesterday revealed that only 50 per cent of the nation's 2009 capital budget has been released to Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).
There are indications that investors from The Netherlands may have indicated interest in ailing Nigerian banks and may be on their way to hold strategic intervention talks with some of the banks next week in Abuja.
