Yvonne Nelson is currently going on a radio tour to promote her soon to be aired movie, ‘Fifty Fifty,’ but during one of those interviews, she released a bombshell about Jackie Appiah. According to Yvonne Nelson, while speaking on Accra FM, when she was about to shoot her movie ‘Fix Us’, she wanted …
Read More »High production cost forces bakeries to shut down; bread price hikes beckon again
The Ashanti Flour Users Association is complaining about the high cost of production which, the group says will force them to increase the price of bread again soon. The group’s president, Comfort Akotua, who has been in the bakery business for 35 years, said she stopped production some two months …
Read More »Ghana loses 39,497 hectares of forest due to cocoa production since 2019 — Mighty Earth report reveals
Ghana since 2019 has lost over 39,400 hectares of forest due to activities of cocoa production, this has been disclosed by global advocacy organisation, Mighty Earth in its latest report. The report dubbed ‘Sweet Nothings’ raises concerns on how cocoa is still driving the destruction of protected areas in cocoa-growing …
Read More »Ghana to establish cocoa production plant in Rwanda
Ghana is collaborating to establish a chocolate production plant in Rwanda to boost trade and investment between the two countries. As part of the partnership, Ghana will supply processed organic cocoa in a form of cocoa nibs or cocoa Liquor as shall be determined. Rwanda will also establish a formulation …
Read More »COCOBOD CEO allays Chinese cocoa production fears
The Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Cocoa Board, Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has said there is no cause for the country to be concerned over the emergence of China as a cocoa producing nation. The Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences recently reported that the Chinese island of Hainan has …
Read More »High cost of production killing manufacturing industry – GUTA
The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Ghana Union of Traders’ Association (GUTA), Joseph Paddy has shared that it is quite expensive to run a manufacturing business in Ghana. According to him, this high cost of doing business makes it unattractive for Ghanaians to operate manufacturing industries and create …
Read More »Ghana overtaking South Africa in gold production good news but could be disastrous
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Songhai Group, Mr Hene Aku Kwarpong, has noted that although it is good news that Ghana has overtaken South African as the leading producer of gold making it number one, this development has the propensity of rather creating problems for the West African nation. He …
Read More »WACOMP Ghana And Global Shea Alliance Train Sheabutter Companies In-Cosmetics Packaging And Product Design
The West African Competitiveness Programme (WACOMP) – Ghana funded by the European Union and implemented by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Global Shea Alliance (GSA) on Wednesday trained over 40 Shea-based entrepreneurs in cosmetics packaging in Accra. Mr Charles Kwame Sackey, the WACOMP – Ghana Chief …
Read More »Ghana’s Jubilee field reaches 300m barrels of oil production
Tullow Ghana Limited (TGL), operator of the Jubilee and Tweneboa, Enyenra and Ntomme (TEN) fields, has announced that the country has reached a milestone with 300 million barrels of oil production from the Jubilee field. Tullow and its partners GNPC, Kosmos, Anadarko and Petro SA, in a statement said they …
Read More »Ghana doubles its Gas production
In 2019, gas production witnessed its greatest boost since the inception of natural gas production in Ghana with a total of 169,509 million standard cubic feet of associated and non-associated gas produced from all fields in 2019, an 85% increase over 2018’s volume of 91,459 MMSCF. While the Jubilee …
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