The Vice-Chancellor of the University for Mines and Technology (UMAT), Tarkwa, Prof. Jerry Samuel Kuma, has appealed to Sandvik Mining Ghana to avail to the university its technology and equipment to help train the country’s licenced small-scale miners. He said the havoc wrought on the environment through the crude mining methods of small-scale miners poses such serious danger that the urgency of reversing the situation is immediate. According to him, with support of the Swedish industrial giant,

An agribusiness firm in Takoradi, B-Bovid Limited, has entered into a profit-sharing agreement with farmers engaged in oil palm production to enable them to earn additional income from their produce in a bid to incentivise and sustain the interest of farmers in oil palm plantations. Under the arrangement, farmers who sell their palm fruit to the company will receive an end of year bonus from B-Bovid in addition to being paid the going market price for their produce. This is the first time that a

Elmax, an Italian electronic security manufacturer for residential and commercial buildings, has officially launched its alarm control GSM intrusion detection products in the country aimed at activating home devices and home intrusion detectors. The device, which has been tailor-made for African residential and commercial buildings, and configured by software developed by specialised engineers, allows high reliability, high speed of dialling, clearest audio and customised functions that provide customers

Thirty-five (35) proposals have been presented for consideration in the second edition of Ghacem’s Quarry Life Awards (QLA) campaign. Out of that number, “the strongest five proposals” will be selected by a jury and given 500 euros each to commence work on their research. The QLA Communications Coordinator, Mr. Solomon Ayiah, disclosed this when he led a delegation of the campaign to pay a courtesy call on the Minister of Environment, Science Technology and Innovation, Dr. Joe OtengAgyei, on

A Tema-based agrochemical company, Chemico Limited, has introduced a new programme known as the Chemico Akuafo Project to boost cocoa production. The Technical Consultant of the company, Mr. Kwame Obeng Adjina, said this at the end of a five-day training workshop for field officers at Bunso. He said the project was aimed at complementing government’s mass cocoa spraying exercise programme, to enable many farmers deal with various cocoa diseases. The training brought together field officers from

Bank of Ghana Governor Henry Kofi Wampah has told the Business & Financial Times he believes the central bank’s strong intervention to shore-up the cedi is beginning to bear fruit, with the currency’s rate of fall slowing from January’s alarming peak. Speaking in an interview on March 11, five weeks after the bank set out new regulations to govern foreign exchange transactions within the country, Dr. Wampah said though the measures need more time to yield results, the bank’s initial assessment

Ghana Commercial Bank Limited (GCB) has budgeted about GH¢1million toward Ghana’s participation in the World Cup in Brazil, in June. This comprises sponsorship of some 30 Ghanaians including the bank’s customers to Brazil; a donation to facilitate the creation of a Ghana Black Star Village in Brazil, and the sponsorship of live telecast matches to benefit the majority of Ghanaians. Dr. Fritz Gockel, Board Chairman of the bank, disclosed this when the bank presented a cheque for GH¢300,000 to

The AFRICA CEO FORUM 2014, one of the most important gathering of African business leaders taking place in Geneva from 17 to 19 March, has been officially opened. Organised by the Groupe Jeune Afrique in partnership with the African Development Bank (AfDB), the second AFRICA CEO FORUM welcomed "680 participants, speakers and journalists from more than 38 countries". This level of participation is already a measure of the success of this year's AFRICA CEO FORUM, whose mission is

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has put the amount of crude oil stolen in the country in 2013 at 109.5 million barrels. The Group Managing Director, NNPC, Mr. Andrew Yakubu, in a special keynote address at the ongoing Nigerian Oil and Gas Conference in Abuja on Tuesday, said the country lost 300,000 barrels per day, or 109,500,000 barrels in 2013 to severe attacks on its critical export pipeline system. Oil theft is often associated with criminals who tap crude from pipelines for local

The International Institute for ICT Journalism-Penplusbytes has successfully implemented its social media training and policy project in the country. The capacity building initiative, designed with support from Free Press Unlimited, is aimed at improving the quality of programme content as well as viewership of news media channels by actively engaging the target audience through interaction on all social media platforms. News Generation team at Multi TV successfully undertook the maiden training

Gas supply from Nigeria could swell in the coming days as Chief Director of the Energy and Petroleum Ministry, Thomas Akabza, has hinted that the minister's journey to Nigeria over the gas conundrum "has not been fruitless". The Chief Director gave the hint on Tuesday during the award of certificates to wiring practitioners at the Energy Commission. The Energy and Petroleum Minister, Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah, left for Nigeria on Monday for talks over the gas challenge and was expected