The Daily IIJ

…gas utilization infrastructure expected in place by Dec 2012 By Kofi AHOVI Construction work is expected to commence early next year on the first gas infrastructure, including a gas processing plant, which would represent a major boost to government’s plan to accelerated infrastructure development in 2012.

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By Kofi Ahovi More than 70% of the registered Rural and Community Banks (RCB) in Ghana have met the new minimum capital requirement, Business Week has gathered.

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By Kofi Ahovi The mining industry in Ghana has reacted to the new tax reforms introduced in the 2012 budget statement by the government. According to the industry, the new reforms would deter the mining companies to make further investments in the sector. However no categorical statements have so far been made on the fate [...]

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Discussions around the severity of the October 2011 flooding in slum urban communities in Accra, particularly around the area called Sodom and Gomorrah, are controversial. Majority of the media coverage blamed poor drainage and solid waste management systems in the capital as the culprit, while others linked the intensity of the rains to climate change. [...]

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Feminism is not a word that trips easily off the tongues of Ghanaians. The hostility to the term and the insistence that it is foreign and the several misunderstandings about what feminism stands for, mean that people find it easier or more tactical to call themselves gender activists, gender expert’s etc. But perhaps, as Prof. [...]

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A professor at the University of Florida has said Ghana must think twice and find other ways of cleaning the voter register since that is one of the surest ways to ensure a credible election. He submits that biometric registration and verification which have become a contentious issue, especially among the leading political parties in [...]

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ABANTU for Development and ActionAid-Ghana have called on government and all political parties to ensure that they maintain their respective commitments of promoting increased women’s participation in the electoral process. The two women rights advocacy groups admit that though concrete steps have been taken to address disparities in certain sectors like meeting school enrolment under [...]

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Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Dr. Kwabena Duffuor on Wednesday kick-started the National Democratic Congress (NDC) political campaign when he presented the 2012 Budget Statement in Parliament. He insisted that government had significantly delivered on its promise of a better Ghana for Ghanaians, justifying his claim with a seemingly endless list of what he [...]

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It has been established that without mandatory Affirmative Action, expected changes that can lead to an increase in women’s representation in national politics will not occur. Ghana may also miss out on achieving its Millennium Development Goal (MDG 3) target with regard to the proportion of seats held by women in national parliament. MDG 3 [...]

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Three 20ft containers have reportedly been cleared from the Queen Elizabeth II Quay without going through proper procedures at the Customs and Excise Department. According to the Local Unit Commander for Harbour Division, Chief Superintendent Ibrahim Koroma, the containers were physically cleared on September 27 and 28 respectively. He explained that on November 9, 2011, [...]

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