The Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), has shut down again following a shortage of crude oil at the facility. The refinery, which has the capacity to refine about 45,000 barrels of crude oil a day, has been operating below capacity for some time now. Confirming the shutdown to Citi News, the Executive Director of the Institute of Energy Security, Kwasi Anamua ...

Investment research outfit, GN Research, has waded into the Ghana Cedi depreciation debate, arguing the local currency is performing better than 2016 when the National Democratic Congress (NDC) was in power. Former president John Mahama and vice president Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia have been throwing jabs at each other over which government best managed the Cedi. Ahead of the presentation of ...

Hundreds of victims of online Ponzi scheme, Savanna Brokerage, are threatening a nationwide demonstration against MTN. The victims are blaming the telecom company of doing little to help in the retrieval of about GHC11 million investment locked up in MTN Merchant accounts. These victims paid monies via MTN Merchant accounts to invest into Savanna Brokerage’s ponzi investment packages. The Juiciest ...

Construction work on the 1.2-kilometre Nima-Maamobi storm drain has stalled as a result of lack of funds. The Brazilian Construction Company, Queiroz Galvao, working on the project abandoned the site early last year when resources for the project ceased to flow. The storm drain was part of an urban expansion project and was scheduled to be completed in October 2017, ...

Famous Ghanaian actress, Yvonne Nelson, says it has always been her prayer never to file for divorce in her life. She made this revelation in an interview with Sammy Forson on Joy FM’s “Personality Profile”. According to Yvonne, the reason she is quiet laid back when it comes to marriage is because she doesn’t want to divorce in life, adding ...

National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Kumbungu, Ras Mubarak, has asked the government to take a firm stance against moves by the US government to repatriate some Ghanaians awaiting deportation in that country. The US Embassy had threatened to among other things, charter flights for the deportation of these migrants. It indicated in a statement that this had ...

Government’s dream to revive the defunct Ghana airways by December 2019 is in limbo as most of the prime routes have been offloaded to the South African Airways. The last aircraft of Ghana Airways, a 276 seater capacity plane purchased from the US, had been converted into a ‘chop bar’ (La Tante DC 10 restaurant), situated right opposite the Marina ...

The Managing Director of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), Clifford Briamah, has described as baseless calls for the removal of the Board Chairman of the Company, Alexander Afenyo Markin, by some workers of the company. Some members of the Public Utility Workers Union (PUWU) of GWCL in the Ashanti Region, last week called for the immediate dismissal of Mr. ...

The Member of Parliament for Kumbungu, Ras Mubarak has described his colleague legislator, Kennedy Agyapong as a bully who must be sanctioned. According to him, Agyapong at the least opportunity tries to belittle Parliament; a move he said is “unbecoming” of a Member of Parliament. “I will support every move to make sure that he [Kennedy Agyapong] faces the full ...

SEND Ghana has called on government to engage civil society organisations in the formulation of national policies to ensure an all-inclusive development in attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The organization noted that, development initiatives were more effective for poverty reduction when all stakeholders, especially citizens and marginalized communities were actively involved in the planning, execution and monitoring of development ...