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Ghana Oil Company Limited, GOIL, continues to receive more recognition for excellence in the Oil and the Gas Sector. At the 4th edition of the Ghana Oil and Gas Awards, GOIL was honoured with the award of Oil Marketing Company of the Year, while “Exemplary Leadership Award for Policy Initiative in the Petroleum Sector was conferred on its Group Chief Executive and Managing Director, Mr. Patrick Akorli. The awards were received on behalf of Mr. Akorli by a delegation of GOIL team led by the Head of Finance, Mr. Ofori Sarkwa.

The office of former President Jerry John Rawlings says the upcoming 31st December Revolution to be staged in Ho is opened to all including former President John Mahama. According to the Local Organising Committee of the 36th anniversary, claims by some media organisations that Mr. Rawlings has banned certain personalities including Mr. Mahama from participating in the anniversary events are not true. “The publication is a complete fabrication and a calculated attempt by mischievous persons to water down the huge interest shown by cadres, supporters and sympathisers of the revolution since news broke that the celebration would be held in Ho.” A…

At least one student of the Bawku Senior High Technical School has been confirmed dead following what is believe to be an outbreak of meningitis in the school. Five more students have been admitted at the Bawku Presbyterian Hospital on Wednesday. Doctors at the hospital confirmed to TV3’s Upper East regional correspondent, Rabiu Tanko Mohammed, that meningitis has been identified as the cause of death of a third year student of the school. Some agitated parents have rushed to the school to ascertain what is happening there whilst others make frantic efforts to take their wards home. Meanwhile, Rabiu said…

The Founder of Africa Literacy Development Initiative (ALDI), Victoria Michaels says literacy development should be at the heart of societal governance, education and skills acquisition. According to Victoria Michaels, literacy is key to national empowerment and called for support from all especially corporate organizations to complement government’s efforts at revamping the education sector, with emphasis on literacy. “The literacy narrative should not be reduced to mere political talk or some boardroom policy devoid of implementation; we must all now turn words into action in order to develop a rich and sustainable literacy environment,” she said. She was speaking at a…

The National Service Secretariat has organized a youth entrepreneurship, innovation and technology workshop to tackle the high unemployment rate. Speakers from the MIT-Ghana Regional Entrepreneurs Accelerated Programme (REAP), Africa Harvard Study Group and scientists from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Harvard University encouraged teeming youth to venture into entrepreneurship. They included Emmanuel Agyeampong Director of the Center for African Studies at Harvard University, Ed Lazowska, and Member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of American Academy of Arts and Science among others. The workshop which was organized in collaboration with Dalex…

An articulated truck driver lost his life on Tuesday December 12 at a quarry site belonging to the General Development Company (GDC) at Essipong, in the Western region, when he was ran over by his own vehicle. The driver whose name has been given as Isaac Mensah, 43, had gone to the site to buy chippings around 2:00pm on that day. After his truck with registration number GE 6661 – 16 had been loaded, he decided to go for his waybill. Whilst picking the waybill, he saw the truck reversing on its own. A mind-boggling eyewitness account suggested that the…

A 40-year-old woman has been shot dead at Alulani, a community in the Nanumba district of the Northern Region. The body of Alhassan Rahinatu was found at her residence following gunshots in the area on Tuesday evening. According to the Northern Regional Police Public Relations Officer ASP Yussif Tanko, a joint military and police  team stationed in the area rushed to the community at about 8pm yesterday when they heard gunshots only to find her dead with gunshot wounds. “She was identified as Alhassan Rahinatu, wife of Abraham Bediako, a member of the Andani faction in the Chieftaincy litigation,” he…

A senior lecturer at the University of Education, Winneba, in the Central Region, Dr. Ahmed Jinapor has advised the government to move away from asking people to proceed on leave prematurely. Dr. Jinapor said when the government took over about a year ago, people were asked to step aside and almost a year on, people are still being asked to step aside which is worrying. The lecturer was commenting on the rumours that the Second Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Johnson Asiama, has been forced to step aside. This has however been discounted by the central bank.…

The fate of the Second Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Dr Johnson Asiama, is uncertain, as his legal advisor says the government is pushing for his exit from the central bank. His legal team is yet to begin discussions over a negotiated package for him. The Daily Graphic has gathered that Mrs Josephine Ankomah, who heads Ecobank in The Gambia, is highly tipped to succeed Dr Asiama when his terms of exit are concluded. Dr Asiama, who is on a 10-day leave, denied media reports that he had resigned from the BoG. Rather, he insisted that he…

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