The Volta River Authority (VRA) has met stakeholders in the Upper East Region on the Environmental Impact Assessment and Resettlement Action Plan Reports for the proposed Pwalugu multipurpose dam. The meeting, which took place at Bolgatanga, was to seek the inputs of stakeholders and address concerns to form the basis for the final document that will be acceptable to all ...

Ghana’s indigenous eCommerce & SMS messaging company, Hubtel.com has entered into a partnership with Visa, to expand access to seamless payments on its eCommerce platform. This partnership with Visa provides consumers with access to more merchant services on Hubtel’s eCommerce platforms. It also allows Hubtel to explore further innovative payment services such as “tap to phone,” amongst others, to reduce ...

An industrialist and economist, Mr Tony Oteng-Gyasi, has called for urgent investigations into how China earned a better price for its first consignment of cocoa export than what Ghana received for its premium cocoa beans. He told the Graphic Business on April 23 that the investigations must be immediate and help to establish why 500 kilogrammes (kg) of the bean ...

A 27-year-old woman Mary Quaye, is in the custody of the Agona Duakwa police in the Central Region for inflicting multiple machete wounds on her husband’s neck. Information gathered by EIB News’ Yaw Boagyan indicates that a misunderstanding over house-keeping money ensued between the couple on Monday, 26th April, around 4:30 pm during which the husband, Abraham Acquah hit her ...

The Institute for Energy Policies and Research (INSTEPR) has called for the immediate decommissioning of the oil rig, Mr Louie, sited at Saltpond in the Central Region. It has warned of an environmental catastrophe if action is not taken on the 65-year-oil rig, whose production platform was in a very bad and threatening condition, stressing that imminent oil spillage would ...

Outspoken University of Ghana lecturer Professor Ransford Gyampo says teachers in the country are scared to publicly speak about challenges confronting the Free SHS program out of fear of victimization. According to him, concerned teachers will rather speak to parents privately about the challenges of the program. The comments come in the wake of the national conversation over the perceived ...

Feasibility studies are underway on the possibility of relocating the Kasoa toll booth as part of measures to help eliminate the vehicular traffic bottleneck on that section of the Accra-Winneba highway, the Minister of Roads, Mr Kwasi Amoako Atta has disclosed. He said the ministry has realised that it is impossible to expand the gates at the booth because of a ...

Bookmaking giants, Betway has donated sports equipment to local football and basketball teams in the Ashanti Region through its Betway Up programme The donation was done after a Betway Up training program, where teams were taken through sessions on sports science, coaching and practical training. The equipments donated included soccer balls, basketballs, training bibs, shin guards and training cones. Representatives ...

The Ghana Integrity Initiative has lauded the Attorney-General’s department over its decision to sack Senior State Attorney captured in Starr FM’s ‘Cash For Justice’ expose. The Justice Ministry fired Lawrence Otoo-Boison who was implicated in the investigative piece . He was captured in the documentary by Edward Adeti advising a suspect who was on an INTERPOL’s wanted list to go ...

Italian police have carried out raids across the country, arresting some 30 people suspected of operating for the Nigerian Black Axe mafia syndicate. Police say they face about 100 charges including drug and people trafficking, prostitution and internet fraud. The gang allegedly used the Bitcoin cryptocurrency to carry out clandestine financial transactions on the dark web. Black Axe emerged from ...