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The ministries of Trade, Industry and Employment and Finance and Economic Affairs in collaboration with the European Commission ((EC) office in The Gambia, last Saturday November 21st held an open forum on the update of the negotiation of economic partnership agreement between West Africa and the European Commission, at the Independence Stadium in Bakau.
Dr. Oteng Adjei - Minister for Energy
The Government of Ghana is making frantic efforts to alleviate unemployment, especially among the youth in the country. To this end, the government, through the Ministry of Youth and Sports has rolled-out the 2010 National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) for a massive recruitment drive to further rope in more unemployed youth into the programe.
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.
The Ministry of Youth and Sports has copiously commended beverage producers, Nestle Ghana Limited, for rallying behind the country's sports, especially athletics.
The Minority group in Parliament yesterday reacted in an unorthodox manner against the First Deputy Speaker of the House, Hon. Edward Doe Adjaho, when they perceived his ruling to be biased. Hon. Adjaho was sitting in for Mrs. Justice Joyce Bamford Addo, the Speaker of Parliament. The day marked the opening of debate on the government's budget, which was presented last week by the Finance ...
THE Obuasi Divisional Police commander, Superintendent Emmanuel Amissah has expressed concern over the lack of accommodation for police personnel within the Division.
Key players in Ghana's private sector yesterday took the bull by the horn to express their misgivings over the inability of present and successive governments to manage the country's economy. According to them, for the past ten years all governments that ruled the country have adopted "a try and error method" to manage Ghana's fiscal and monetary policies.
The Gushegu District Director of Health Services, Mr. Mark Bugri Ayaba has called on the Ministry of Health to post at least 103 additional health personnel to facilitate quality healthcare delivery at the Ultra-modern Gushegu Government Hospital and to ensure maximum utilization of the facility.
Reha Medical Group Limited, a leading importer of health equipment into Ghana and other countries in Africa has presented a sponsorship package to the Medical Students' Exchange Programme.
The laws governing mining activities in the country mandate mining companies operating in the country to pay between 3 to 6% percent of their earnings to the government as royalties, but as if by design, all the mining companies have settled for the minimum 3% royalty payment, despite gains gold has been making on the international market.
The government of Ghana, an evolving democracy beloved of western donors, has pledged tough new checks on spending as it wrestles with a record budget deficit inherited from the former administration.
The Gushegu District Director of Health Services, Mr. Mark Bugri Ayaba, has called on the Ministry of Health to post at least 103 additional health personnel to facilitate quality healthcare delivery at the ultra-modern Gushegu Government Hospital, and also to ensure maximum utilisation of the facility.
Three persons lost their lives yesterday morning, while 10 others sustained serious injuries in a fatal motor accident that occurred at Gada-Biyu village, along the Abuja-Lokoja highway.
In its effort to put an end to trans boundary movement of animals infested by different forms of deceases, the Niger State ministry of agriculture and rural development has flagged off the Jebba livestock control post to resume its function of quarantine and disease surveillance of livestock passing through the state.
Lagos State Government has been called upon to find a lasting solution to the prevailing traffic jam that has ravaged the Ikorodu Town on a daily basis by constructing the fourth Mainland Bridge that will link the town to other parts of the state.
The Gambian leader, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh, yesterday afternoon received a donation of teleprompter worth US 10,000 (ten thousand dollars) and a threshing machine from the country's GSM giant, Africell, during at a ceremony held at State House, Banjul.
Western Union, on Monday, held its Tobaski raffle draw at the premises of its main agent in The Gambia, Trust Bank Ltd, Banjul branch.
Ahead of the Tobaski feast, farmers in the North Bank Region and Central River Region are selling their groundnuts to middle men at D5 per kilo, in preparation for the coming Tobaski feast. This works out to D5000 per tonne compared to the producer price of D8500 per tonne in the last trade season.
The West African Insurance Companies (WAICA) in Collaboration with inter-Governmental Action Group against money laundering in West Africa on Monday 23 November held their educational conference at Jerma Beach Hotel on the Theme: "The role of the insurance industry in combating money laundering and other financial crisis"
The President of Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), Dr Simeon Chukwuemeka Okolo has wooed Chinese investors to establish more businesses in the country.
A 15-man Presidential Committee on the review of tariffs and fiscal incentives headed by the Kwara State Governor, Dr. Bukola Saraki has been inaugurated in Abuja.
The out-going Director of Police Pension Office, Mr. Esai Dangarba has said that he has in the last one year increased the numbers of retirees on the payroll of the police pension to 33,000.
Barely two months after President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua flagged off the dredging of the River Niger, a major contract scam has hit the multi-billion naira project as some contractors have petitioned the House of Representatives over alleged installation of substandard navigational aids on the river.
Addressing the power supply problem has been described as the panacea to economic development of the country since it is the only stimulus needed to jumpstart the economy and transport it to one of the top 20 economies of the world as encapsulated in the Vision 2020 blueprint.
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