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The Electricity Company of Ghana would soon be compelled to install prepaid meters across the country to reduce the system and revenue losses bedevilling its operations and ultimately saddling it with debt. The power distributor is estimated to lose between 30 and 40 percent of expected revenue from the power it distributes, according to the World Bank, leading to huge debts that have hampered its operations. Speaking at the launch of the Direct Savings and Loans Company in Accra, the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, indicated that financial institutions are carrying large debts on their books from the energy sector,…

The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) has begun a nationwide project to replace weak and corroded pipelines, starting from the Greater Accra region. The Head of Communications for the GWCL, Stanley Martey, in an interview with Onua news, said the move will improve the quality of water supply to the people. Currently, the company is replacing huge pipe lines in areas like Ministries, Makola, parts of Ridge, Parliament House, Accra Sports Stadium, Osu Kuku Hill and surrounding areas. Although, he was not able to give the exact cost of the project, he assured that GWCL will do  its best to…

Award winning musician Kofi Kinaata has appreciated 2nd runner up of TV3 Talented Kids Season 8 Christian Morgan for increasingly promoting his song ‘Time No Dey’ in the country. Christian and his management team embarked on a first ‘Thank You Tour’ to acknowledge some key personalities who supported Morgan during the reality show. The tour began from his school, the Cape Coast School for the Deaf and Blind where Morgan honoured the school with a citation while certificates were also awarded to his school mother Margaret Nketia and his ICT teacher Wilson Abugri for their spectacular attention paid to Morgan…

The Upper East regional branch of the National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE) has sensitized 173 school children from various Junior High Schools in five districts in the Upper East Region and trained 185 patrons on peaceful coexistence, child protection and conflict resolution. This initiative was by the NCCE and supported by the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF). It was necessitated by the numerous protracted conflicts in the region over the years. The purpose was to inculcate in school children and their communities the need for peaceful coexistence. The Upper East region is on record to have several conflict prone…

Government will soon submit to Parliament, an amendment to the Public Financial Management Act, to set Ghana’s fiscal deficit at a maximum 5% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from the year 2018. The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, who made the disclosure at the launch of Direct Savings and Loans Company in Accra on Thursday, said this was part of measures being undertaken by the Nana Akufo-Addo government to ensure fiscal discipline in Ghana. “We have to continue to take measures to deepen the fiscal consolidation and also to institutionalise the fiscal consolidation. At the end of the day, the…

Eight people have died and at least 49 are injured after a wall collapsed at a football stadium in Senegal. It happened at Demba Diop stadium in the capital, Dakar, at the end of the League Cup final between Stade de Mbour and Union Sportive Ouakam. Fighting started between rival fans and police responded by using tear gas, which led to panic, a stampede, and the wall collapse. Some fans were throwing projectiles including stones at others. Pictures circulating online appear to show people scrambling over a low wall amid clouds of gas. Local news agency APS reported that ambulances…

Lord Tariq Ahmad, the Foreign Office Minister of State for the Commonwealth and the United Nations will visit Ghana from the 16-18 July. A statement issued by the British High Commission in Accra and copied to the Ghana News Agency said Lord Ahmad’s visit would reaffirm the importance of Ghanaian-UK relations and re-energise the Commonwealth, ahead of the UK-chaired Commonwealth Summit meeting in April 2018. It said itfollowed the recent visit to Ghana by the Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, in March. It noted that Lord Ahmad would meet President Akufo-Addo to discuss Ghana’s place as a model of democracy and…

Call it determination, drive for success against all odds, Cynthia wants to live  a fulfilled life. 26 year old Cynthia Asamoah is an SHS leaver who aspires to be a nurse. Cee3 as she is affectionately called tells 3FM business grace Hammoah Asare, selling Fan Milk products – yoghurt, fanice, and fanchoco -, a male dominated business, happened by chance. “My brother was already into this business, so after I completed school, I had nothing to do, until one day when he suggested that I join him. I was reluctant in the beginning because of the stigma that might come…

Research conducted by Good Governance Africa, a not-for-profit organization, has revealed small-scale mining has affected school attendance and performance in basic schools in small scale mining areas. The research outcomes shared at a forum in Kumasi also show high levels of teenage pregnancy in galamsey communities. Gold mining constitutes Ghana’s second most important export commodity. Currently, Ghana has the second largest gold deposits in Africa. Estimates show that small-scale mining generates about 30 percent of the country’s gold exports. While the current laws and regulations give some formality to small-scale mining, over 70 percent of those engaged in small-scale mining…

The Northern Power Distribution Company (NEDCO) has published names of 24 customers who have been stealing power in the Dohanayili community in the Northern regional capital of Tamale. The 24, including some respected indigenes of the community, have together consumed power to the tune of  GHS 75,098.19 resulting in revenue loss to the power distribution company. NEDCo says it is taking this drastic measure in dealing with power theft. It is also envisaged to deter consumers who attack staff of the company who undertake disconnection exercise. At a press conference in Tamale,  the Communications Director of the company Maxwell Kotoka,…