The Daily IIJ

The Network Movement for Justice and Development (NMJD) in collaboration with its partners on Tuesday launched its latest report titled: “Good Governance Practices, Short-changed in Sierra Leone” at the National Stadium hostel in Freetown.

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President of the World Bank group has said that residents of Bumbuna, a town hosting the hydro-electricity project, must benefit from power generated from the dam.

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The management of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has indicated its intention sue Sterling Securities Limited for the recovery of ¢5,950,568,033.50 billion (GH¢ 5.95m), which is the interest, plus principal amount of GH¢4.5m invested in the company.

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The Public Accounts Committee of Parliament yesterday lambasted the Ghana National Petroleum Company (GNPC) for diverting its scarce resources into unprofitable businesses that resulted in the company incurring huge losses in its operations during the 2003-2005 year under review.

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The inability of some state-owned institutions to honour their obligations in paying for power services supplied them, has resulted in the accumulation of huge arrears to their service provider, the Volta River Authority (VRA), a situation officials of the Authority say was having a rippling effect on their operations.

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The Northern Regional Minister designate, Mr. Moses Mabengba yesterday told the Appointments Committee of Parliament, presided over by Mr. Edward Doe Adjaho that the conflict situation that has bedeviled the northern region was hampering development in the area, highlighting on land and chieftaincy issues as the bane of the conflicts in the region.

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The Local branch of the International Labour Organization (ILO) on Tuesday presented 600 copies of two publications on ‘Financing Local Economic Development in Ghana’ to Parliament.

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The Member of Parliament for Manhyia, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has stated that financial consumers in the country are being cheated, as a result of too much power vested in the Bank of Ghana (BoG).

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The Bank of Ghana (BoG) is to set up an online secondary trading platform for government securities this year. The platform expected to become operational  before the end of the year will constitute the completion phase of the Central Securities Depository (CSD)  project of the Bank implemented last year. Mr. Francis Kwabena Andoh, Head of [...]

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Farmers groups in the Tano North and South Districts of the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana have called for a review of the Minerals and Mining Act 2006 (Act  703) in order to make clear cut provisions on what should constitute compensations, made by mining companies to affected parties  within a mining community.

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