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Ashesi Alumni on the World Affairs Council

The World Affairs Council presents leadership and alumni from Ashesi University in Ghana for a panel discussion on fostering innovation and ethical leadership in Africa with the goal of sustained development on the continent. Representing a diversity of expertise and backgrounds, panelists will provide an engaging discussion on their experiences in working for progress in Africa. [...]

Ghana hosts Getenergy for West Africa

Oil and Gas exploration and production activity in Ghana and West Africa have been steadily increasing in the past few years. With that increase in production has come an increased focus on extracting national value from the resources, managing the aspirations of some of the most dynamic and enterprise people in the world and preventing [...]

Introducing GhanaLive.TV

Finally after several months of testing, contract negotiations and a lot of dedicated team working around the clock, GhanaLive.Tv is now ready to deliver LIVE BROADCASTING FROM GHANA to the Diaspora around the world. At the moment you will be able to watch TV3 LIVE from Ghana and 3 more channels will follow by the [...]

Gas at last

The long-awaited plan of the West African Gas Pipeline Company (WAPCO) to supply gas to the Volta River Authority (VRA) through an alternative delivery point in Tema finally came on stream yesterday with the delivery of 60 million British thermal units (mmbtu) of free flow gas to the authority for power generation. The VRA has [...]

Power tariffs go down

The government has decided to apply a total subsidy of GH¢115 million to all electricity consumers, following the recent tariff adjustment by the Public Utility Regulatory Commission (PURC). According to a report submitted by a technical committee to the Vice-President, Mr. John Dramani Mahama, at the Castle Osu, yesterday, consumers who consume up to 150 [...]

Afforestation to provide 30,000 jobs

The National Forest Plantation Development Programme (NFPDP) launched by President John Evans Atta Mills on January 20, 1010 is on course to provide 30,000 jobs for the youth in various parts of the country. It is also on course to restore 30,000 hectares of degraded forest reserves this year as part of measures to improve [...]