Category: Top Stories
-
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…
-
Blame government for recent power challenges not GRIDCo – Kwabena Donkor
Former Power Minister, Dr Kwabena Donkor, has attributed the current challenges to what he deems poor decisions made by the government. According to the former minister, these choices have culminated in the poor financial state of the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo). In an interview with Citi Business News, Dr Kwabena Donkor stated that these upgrades…
-
GSS begins training for 2021 Population and Housing Census national trainers
—
by
The final phase of training of National Trainers for the 2021 Population and Housing Census (PHC) commences today, Thursday 8th April 2021. The residential training workshop will end on Friday, 16th April 2021. It is to equip prospective trainers with the requisite knowledge, skills and competencies to train regional trainers who in turn will…
-
Stakeholders at AGRA dialogue commends media for advocacy on agric
Programmes Manager at the John Agyekum Kufuor Foundation has lauded the media involvement in boosting local agriculture consumption. The country still imports majority of its agricultural consumption till this day. Rice farmers for instance in the past years have lamented the increase in waste of produce on their farms as majority of the populace focuses…
-
Don’t engage quack engineers – Engineering Council warns public
—
by
The Engineering Council has admonished the public to refrain from engaging the services of engineering professionals not registered under the Council. The public is to inspect registration certificates issued by the Engineering Council from engineers, be it, Civil Engineers, Auto Mechanic Engineers, Electoral Engineers, etc. The 9 member council established under Act 819, LI 2410…
-
NPA launches fuel monitoring system to seal revenue leakages
As part of efforts aimed at eliminating illicit activities associated with the transportation and effective distribution of petroleum products across the country, government has introduced the National Retail Outlet Fuel Monitoring System. The system will also help reduce revenue losses within the petroleum downstream sector. Already, data from the National Petroleum Authority, NPA, show that…
-
Don’t allow OMCs who evade tax to distribute petroleum products – Bawumia to NPA
Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has charged the National Petroleum Authority, NPA, to halt third party distribution of petroleum products to Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) who evade taxes. The instruction comes on the back of data from the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), which indicates that between 2015 and 2019, government lost over four billion Ghana…
-
Partner private sector to attain renewable energy goals – IPPs to government
The Chamber of Independent Power Producers says for the government to attain its renewable energy target in the country’s energy mix, it is important that it includes the private sector. The government has over the years consistently failed to attain its target on renewables for the country. In an interview with Citi Business News, Chief…
-
Stakeholders call for timetable for power outages
Following the on-going planned maintenance and upgrade of systems by the Ghana Grid Company, GRIDCo, and the Electricity Company of Ghana, ECG, the Chamber of Independent Power Producers is urging government to come out with a timetable for the imminent power outages the country is currently experiencing. According to the Chamber, the present power challenge…
-
Maintenance-induced power cuts likely to end in September – GRIDCo
The Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) says Ghanaians will have to deal with the intermittent supply of power until September this year when it will complete its system upgrade. GRIDCo had earlier indicated that it was working on a system upgrade to improve service delivery and had announced that it will come with some intermittent power…