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For the second time in March this year, GOIL has reduced prices of its petroleum products at its fuel stations across the country GOIL’s Super XP (petrol) has been reduced by five pesewas per litre while the price of Diesel XP (diesel) has also been cut down by five pesewas per litre effective Wednesday, 29th of March 2017. READ: GOIL reduces fuel prices A statement issued in Accra by GOIL which was adjudged the CIMG Petroleum Company of the year said the reduction is to reflect on the downward trend of petroleum prices on the international market and importantly in…

Passport application processing has been halted in the Western Region following the breakdown of a digital camera for capturing images of applications, sources close to the Regional Passport Office have revealed. The suspension has been in force since March 27 and services are expected to be restored on April 3, 2017. Some prospective applicants who had travelled from the length and breadth of the Western and Central regions to have their passport application forms processed, were left stranded as long queues were formed at the Office located at Sekondi. “We got here 4:00am and it is 6:00pm but we couldn’t…

The Minister of Railways Development, Joe Ghartey says his outfit has plans to launch a Community-Based Railway Development Project. Speaking on the floor of Parliament during the ministry’s budgetary estimates approval on Wednesday, he said some of the workers that would be employed will come from the communities that the rail line passes through. He stated that investment into the sector could attract more than 3 billion dollars, as against the 800 million dollars that came to the oil sector last year, indicating that railway sector can be bigger than the oil sector, if the country can woo potential investors.…

What is the circumference of the planet earth?  No need to be specific, but we know it would make a baobab tree look very, very small.  With that in mind, consider this, if all the people living in rural areas without access to clean water stood in a queue it would go around the earth 6 and a half times. How long would a similar queue look in Ghana?  If all the people living in rural areas without access to clean water made a queue could they make a circle around the whole of Ghana?  And if we added in…

President of the Institute of Human Resource Management Practitioners (IHRMP), Mr. John Wilson has explained that the Ghana HR Star Awards was established to develop human resource management in Ghana. The awards held over the weekend also celebrated excellence in human resource and recognized institutions and individuals who are contributing to the development of the practice. Individuals and institutions in both public and private sectors were recognized for exhibiting best practices in HR. It was under the theme ”human capital and national development”. Best organization in employee relations practice; best organization in learning and development practice; and most successful change…

Lecturer of professional ethics at the Methodist University College, Dr Osei Bonsu Owusu says the monthly salary of GHc75,000 paid to former chief executive officer of COCOBOD by the previous board amounted to causing financial loss to the state. He argued that it is time implementation of universal salary structure was applied across all sectors in order to end the practice of Board of Directors fixing salary and allowances for chief executive officers of state institutions. According to the new Board Chairman of COCOBOD, Hackman Owusu-Agyeman, documents available to him suggested that the under fire former CEO Dr. Stephen Opuni-Frimpong…

Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie on March 28, 2017 posted a touching tribute to his beautiful buggy boo daughter Titi, who turned a year old. Both father and mother shared heart-warming photos of their pride Titi, of having her as a daughter on their Instagram pages. The rap king began by posting on his twitter handle @TheHighest…Happy bday Worlds most beautiful … Adalyn Maame Owusu Addo . Titi was not left in the cold by her mother, Tracy, who also posted on her twitter handle @TracySarkcess… Happy 1st birthday to my beautiful buggy boo daughter @AdalynOwusuAddo Mummy& daddy love u to the…

Parliament on Wednesday received the report of a five-member committee that investigated a bribery allegations against some members of parliament’s Appointment Committee. The chairman of the ad hoc committee, Joe Ghartey laid the report before parliament for a motion to be moved in order for the house to accept it with the recommendations or reject the report. Per the procedure of parliament, copies of the report would have to be made and distributed to members before the chairman of the committee would move for a debate on the report. Even though parliament has 48 hours for motions lay before it…

A missing Indonesian man was found dead inside the body of a python, according to local police. Akbar went missing on Sunday on the island of Sulawesi, after leaving to harvest palm oil. In the search for the 25-year-old, police told BBC Indonesian that they had found a huge snake they suspected had swallowed the man. The reticulated python, reported to be 7m (23ft)-long, was cut open and the man’s body was found. Reticulated pythons are among the world’s longest reptiles and suffocate their victims before swallowing them whole. Pythons rarely kill and eat humans, although there are occasional reports…

A missing Indonesian man was found dead inside the body of a python, according to local police. Akbar went missing on Sunday on the island of Sulawesi, after leaving to harvest palm oil. In the search for the 25-year-old, police told BBC Indonesian that they had found a huge snake they suspected had swallowed the man. The reticulated python, reported to be 7m (23ft)-long, was cut open and the man’s body was found. Reticulated pythons are among the world’s longest reptiles and suffocate their victims before swallowing them whole. Pythons rarely kill and eat humans, although there are occasional reports…