Barely few weeks to Christmas, about 18 people, mostly residents of 65, Ikot Ekpene Road in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, are receiving treatment in various hospi-tals following different degrees of burns suffered when a petrol tanker rammed into some buildings and caught fire.
The National Executive Council of the Ghana Mineworkers' Union of the Ghana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) has expressed its ultimate displeasure over huge salary discrepancies, and other benefits existing between expatriates, their top Ghanaian management, and other staff in the mining industry.
The cedi is expected to make significant gains and remain stronger against the major trading currencies by 2010, says Stephen Bailey-Smith, Standard Bank Plc -Research, Head of Emerging Markets.
WORLD VISION Ghana International, an international non-governmental organisation (NGO), operating in several districts of Ghana, after a careful profile of the Bongo District, opened an Area Development Programme (ADP) in the district in 1996.
Drivers of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) Accra-Kumasi Number Four of the Neoplan Station have assured passengers of smooth and comfortable journeys this Christmas season.
THE government has at long last managed to resolve the legal tussle between the management of the Ghana Railway Company (GRC), and Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), over the former's indebtedness to the latter.
The Managing Director of Nova Complex Limited, Mrs. Diana Quansah, wife of the former Barclays Bank boss is expected to face further cross-examination in an Accra Fast Track High Court (FTC) today, December 14, 2009, in a case in which her company has sued its business partner for fraud. The case arose from alleged monies paid by the said partner, Fishy Limited, to Nova Complex Limited for the ...
THE CONSTRUCTION of the Sofoline Interchange and the additional 10.3km dual carriage from Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital roundabout to Abuakwa is not likely to be completed by next year as scheduled, authorities working on the projects have disclosed.
The Private Enterprise Foundation (PEF), a private sector development and advocacy think-tank, is to set up a framework code of practice for consumer protection, for Ghanaian business enterprises.
Zain Ghana, one of Ghana's telecom giants, has collaborated with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Department of Child Health at the Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs, to refurbish the newly-established Child Protection Unit at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, to treat the ever-growing child abuse cases in the country, and the West African sub-region.
Credible information reaching The Chronicle indicates that powerbrokers and influence peddlers close to the Presidency, are putting excessive pressure on the government to hand-pick the Managing Director (MD) of Stanbic Bank, Mr. Alhassan Andani, for the position of Managing Director of the nation's biggest bank, the Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB), to succeed Lawrence Adu Mante.
It has emerged at an Accra Financial High Court that the government's financial powerhouse, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, was kept in the dark during the transaction that led to the importation of some 15,000 metric tonnes (300,000 bags) of rice from India, on behalf of the Government of Ghana, in 2008.
As the 2009 groundnut trade season begins across the country, the secco presidents in the Central River Region are busy in their respective seccos, as some farmers have already started transporting groundnuts to the various seccos in the region.
Unity Bank Plc will today change its corporate identity to reflect its re-branding exercises nation-wide.
Minister of Transportation, Alhaji Ibrahim Bio, has commended the management of Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) on its on-going rehabilitation projects.
THE United States yesterday promised her readiness to work with Nigeria in provision of electricity and curbing of gas flaring and mitigating problems of climate change in the country.
The President of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Alhaji Aminu Abdulkadir, has said the planned deregulation of the downstream sector by government may not hold the magic cure for the problems bedeviling the industry unless appropriate steps are taken to ensure availability of petroleum products in the country.
MARITIME Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN), has issued a December 29, 2009, ultimatum to the management of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and others, to settle all unpaid benefits to Dockworkers, tally clerks, on board security men and other workers or risk a nationwide industrial unrest.
NIGERIA Labour Congress (NLC), has described the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) as a bold attempt by the Federal government to update and consolidate all the existing legislations governing the nation's petroleum industry and called on the National Assembly to expedite the passage of the bill.
THE Federal Government, has once again reinstated its stance on the proposed reform of the oil and gas sector, while stating that there was no going back on the oil and gas industry reform.
THE Indian state owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) may have concluded plans to set up a green field modular refinery in Nigeria.
Ninety-one Nigerian contractors have benefitted from a capacity building training under the ongoing partnership between Chevron Nigeria Limited, operator of the NNPC/CNL Joint Venture, and the Lagos Business School, thereby furthering the Nigerian Content policy of the Federal government.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has advocated the need for greater efficiency, best practices, transparency and cost-saving procedures in the contracting process within the oil and gas industry.
Northern political and traditional establishments may have concluded that with his current illness, President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua may not be in a position to seek second term in 2011.
Labor malpractices - low wages, illegal and arbitrary dismissals, subjecting workers to unsafe conditions and withholding workers' pay for unexplained reasons for months on end - are often blamed for poor or delayed project completion in Liberia. Many overcome this by employing foreign experts to do the job.
