Addressing the food versus fuel debate in Ghana Business Day Online Concerns over energy supply security and oil-price volatility are generating greater interest in alternative energy sources in Ghana. Civil society groups want a comprehensive biofuel policy. Godwin NNANNA in Accra writes that so far the policy has been slow in coming | The lines between energy and ...
GHANA: Slow progress on oil policy IRINnews web | ACCRA, 4 February 2010 (IRIN) - Ghana needs to do more to ensure that revenue from oil production, due to start later in the year, successfully reduces poverty and avoids a "resource curse", according to civil society leaders worried that safeguards are either inadequate or absent. | Oil reven...
The Standards Board Must Read This All Africa A Chinese made extension cord, widely distributed in Ghana, has a 3-pin plug at one end which then connects to the circuit board by only two unsuitably tiny wires and a dummy plastic tube disguised as a third (earth) wire. | ...
No Tax Incentives for Spare Parts Imports All Africa The Minister of Trade, Ms. Hannah Tetteh, has stated that the spare parts dealers at Abossey Okai, who are mostly importers of spare parts, especially used ones cannot access tax incentives. | ...
WB to Partner Govt to Create Jobs All Africa World Bank Group President, Mr. Robert B. Zoellick, has observed that teeming unemployed youth in any country anywhere is a threat to social stability and all measures should be explored to significantly reduce it to accepted levels. This is one of t...
E-Zwich becoming a Colossal Waste of Resources? Joy Online This month, GhIPPS, the operators of the national electronics payments switch, finally begun allowing their customers access to their traditional bank accounts via e-zwich cards. Seven Ghanaian banks constitute the first set of participants in the sc...
Independent body to manage oil money Joy Online President John Evans Atta Mills says the government intends to establish an independent body to manage the revenue expected from the country’s oil resource to ensure transparency and effective management. | “This is to enable Ghanaians to know how th...
Comment: An advice for politicians in Ghana Joy Online Where do I begin? It seems like more and more you hear politicians say today that “in order to really succeed in politics, you have to lie. That couldn’t be any further from the truth. Politicians lie for all kinds of reasons. Let’s look at some of t...
Hacking into the mind of the CRU climate change hacker The Guardian | Analysis suggests the hacker was in east coast of America and operated over a number of days, but much remains unknown | Hacker in staged photograph surrounded by computers. Photograph: Corbis | Figuring out who was behind the hack of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia requires some digital forensic skills – and a...
