The 125 megawatts Osagyefo Barge is to be converted into a combined cycle power plant and made to generate power in the next three months following a power purchase agreement signed in Accra on Friday between the government and a US-based Energy Company. Balkan Energy Company (BEC), which signed the 20-year contract agreement with the [...]
Read the rest of this story »An ophthalmologist, Madam Beatrice Ablah Lestu Executive Director of the Bealet Optical Centre on Friday asked Ghanaians to desist from buying medicated glasses on the streets because they had side effects. In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Accra, Madam Letsu said most sellers of those glasses were not only unauthorized but [...]
Read the rest of this story »Rural Help Integration, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) providing reproductive health care services, has estimated that between nine and 12 per cent of Ghanaian female population had undergone Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). The finding was as a result of a recent study by the NGO to assess the impact of FGM practice on Ghanaian women. The [...]
Read the rest of this story »The water level in the Akosombo dam has risen by 0.05 feet over the past two days. Today’s level is 235.01 feet, a marginal increase above the critical minimum of 235 feet. Though marginal, it is what officials of Volta River Authority have been hoping for as a sign that the situation will improve. The [...]
Read the rest of this story »Some 446 guns were destroyed in Ho on Thursday to mark the United Nations Weapons Destruction Day, commemorated every July 9. They included cap, short and long barrel guns many of which were clandestinely manufactured locally. Lieutenant Frank Kusi-Darko of the 66th Artillery Regiment Ho who commandeered the destruction exercise, said the guns were seized [...]
Read the rest of this story »Interior Minister Albert Kan Dapaah has rejected assertions by Minority NDC MPs that the Police Administration is not doing enough in curbing the spate of killings in the country. Mr Kan Dapaah says the perception is false and an unfair assessment of the Police Administration’s efforts at tackling the problem. The Interior Minister was responding [...]
Read the rest of this story »The Value Added Tax (VAT) Flat Rate Scheme will begin operating effective September 1, 2007, Mr Anthony Ewereko Minlah, Commissioner of VAT Service, announced at the launch of the scheme on Thursday. The Vat Flat Rate Scheme is a simplified tax collection system that will ensure that retailers of goods and supermarkets charge VAT/NHIL at [...]
Read the rest of this story »Senior women’s side, the Black Queens, would continue their quest for Africa’s single Olympic Games ticket when they the qualifying campaign begin this weekend on the continent. Only four nations – Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa and Ethiopia, are left in the last round of the qualifying series of the Beijing 2008 Olympics Games qualifiers which [...]
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