Category: General
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Appolonia City supports Green Ghana Project by planting 500 trees
As part of efforts to support the Green Ghana Project, Appolonia City has set out to plant 500 trees on Friday 11th June 2021. The initiative which is receiving support from the Forestry Commission is meant to help Ghana achieve its overall target of 5 million trees. In an interview with Citi Business News at…
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Green Ghana project: Vodafone pushes agenda by planting 4,000 trees
As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility and efforts to protect and preserve the environment, telecom giant Vodafone Ghana has joined in the government’s Green Ghana initiative. The government on Friday began an ambitious exercise to plant five million trees as part of efforts to preserve the environment. The initiative was championed by the Forestry…
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Public Enterprises Minister calls for safeguarding state investment
Mr Joseph Cudjoe, the Minister of Public Enterprises, on Monday paid a working visit to the State Interest and Governance Authority (SIGA) and urged it to help in safeguarding investments in state-owned enterprises (SOEs). He said a lot of state resources had been invested in specified entities like the SOEs, joint venture companies, and regulatory…
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Improve living conditions of ageing cocoa farmers – Chief to government
Nana Bekoe Ahwireng, Chief of Mpaem in the New Juaben North Municipality, has called for a critical look at the living conditions of ageing cocoa farmers and make the industry attractive to young people. “The cocoa industry is full of elderly people and the youth are hesitating to go into it because the living conditions…
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Road construction: Lower cost by refining bitumen-rich crude in Ghana – GOIL Executive
The Head of Technical Services at oil marketing company, GOIL, Alphonso Okai Jnr, has blamed the high cost of bitumen used for road projects on the kind of crude imported into the country. According to him, Ghana lacks the facilities needed to refine crude into bitumen, hence the high cost of the product. “What happens…
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ADB Managing Director inducted into Chief Executives Network Hall of Fame
The Managing Director of the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB), Dr. John Kofi Mensah, has been inducted into the Chief Executives Network Hall of Fame at the just-ended 5th Ghana CEOs’ Network Summit held in Accra. The induction into the Hall of Fame is in recognition of Dr. Kofi Mensah’s significant contribution to the Ghanaian banking…
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Ride-hailing app drivers threaten to embark on sit down strike today
Users of ride-hailing apps may experience some challenges commuting as the Ghana Online Drivers Union commences its two-day nationwide sit-down strike from today, May 11, 2021. The drivers are using the protest to put pressure on managers of the app to increase fares charged patrons of the platform. They have justified their action attributing it…
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FanMilk PLC launches NutriDay yoghurt fortified with Zinc to boost immunity
FanMilk Plc, the leading producer of nutritious and refreshing milk-based and dairy-based food products, on Friday, May 7, 2021, launched NutriDay zinc fortified yoghurt, for whole family consumption. NutriDay becomes Ghana’s innovative fortified yoghurt and has been developed by FanMilk to meet the growing demand for healthy nutrition that supports the immune system. Apart from…
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Let’s inculcate moral training in business education – Accra Business School Council Chair
The Council Chair of the Accra Business School is advocating for the integration of integrity and ethos in Ghana’s educational curriculum in a bid to strengthen the fight against the canker of corruption. According to Prof. Kwame Omane-Antwi, many of Ghana’s problems including the galamsey menace can be traced to corrupt dealings of people in…
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Kumasi: Residents and business operators call for dumsor timetable
Following the announcement by officials of the Electricity Company of Ghana that the intermittent power outages being experienced in the Ashanti Region may not end anytime soon, some inhabitants and business operators in the region have called for a load shedding timetable. According to them, the unannounced power fluctuations have been causing damages to their…