Category: Top Stories
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Cyber Security Authority to be operationalized by end of 2021
The Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation will this year operationalize the National Cyber Security Authority as part of the country’s digitalisation effort. Parliament passed the Cybersecurity Act 2020 in November 2020, which establishes the Cyber Security Authority. The Authority is expected to among other things protect the critical information infrastructure of the country, regulate cybersecurity…
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COVID-19 affected upstream oil and gas sector in 2020 – PIAC
The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) says the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated shocks on the economy and major industry actors proved challenging to upstream oil and gas operations in 2020 compared with 2019. PIAC said the outbreak and effect of the COVID-19 pandemic brought some uncertainties in the global upstream…
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ECG Board and officials pay familiarisation visit to Alpha TND Factory
The Board of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) led by its Board Chairman, Mr. Keli Gadzekpo, and some officials have paid a one-day familiarisation visit to the factory base of energy and power distribution resource company Alpha TND Limited located at Prampram in the Greater Accra region. Mr. Keli Gadzekpo was accompanied by Mr.…
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Akufo-Addo secures €170 million for Development Bank-Ghana
The Ministry of Finance and the European Investment Bank have signed an agreement for the provision of a one hundred- and seventy-million-euro (€170 million) facility for the establishment of a new national bank, the Development Bank Ghana (DBG). DBG is an integral feature of the GH¢100 billion Ghana Cares ‘Obaatampa’ Project, which is seeing to…
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Banks will soon recognise Ghana card as main identification for transactions – Bankers Association
Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Association of Bankers, John Awuah has stated that his outfit is in discussions with other stakeholders that will lead to the implementation of a parallel system that will see banks accept the new National ID cards in addition to a number of other ID cards for financial transactions.…
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2021 Citi Business Festival scheduled to commence in June
The 2021 edition of the Citi Business Festival is set to kick off in June. The Citi Business Festival is a month-long initiative marked with on-air and outdoor events held annually in the month of June to equip the Ghanaian business community with strategies needed to grow and scale up their ventures. Due to the…
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Invest in effective systems to detect fake currencies – E-crime Bureau to businesses
Cyber Security firm, E-crime Bureau has charged the over 200,000 mobile money agents across the country and businesses to invest in tools and systems such as money counting machines to detect fake currencies being introduced into the system by unscrupulous characters. Earlier this month National Security busted a 13-member gang involved in the printing and…
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SIM registration: NIA announces measures to register Ghanaians without Ghana card
The Chief Executive Officer of the National Identification Authority (NIA), Professor Kenneth Attafuah has stated that plans are far advanced to ensure every Ghanaian re-registers their SIM cards. His comments follow agitations from sections of the public over the use of the National Identification cards for the SIM –Card re-registration exercise. According to him, the…
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Ghana risks brain drain if TOR remains nonoperational – Energy Consultant
Energy Consultant, Dr. Yussif Sulemana, has raised concerns about the continuous redundancy of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), suggesting that it may lead to human capital challenges soon. According to him, the current situation at TOR has compelled many skilled workers from the refinery to leave the country in search of greener pastures. “In fact,…
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We don’t foresee further rise in fuel prices soon – AOMCs
Board Chairman of the Association of Oil Marketing Companies, Henry Akwaboah has said that members of his association are unlikely to increase fuel prices as being anticipated. “Even though prices on the world oil markets have gone up slightly, I do not foresee oil marketing companies increasing their prices during this window. At least I…