The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD) welcomes the announcement by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly that it has (on the 29 March 2022) adopted the resolution proclaiming 12 May as the annual International Day of Plant Health (IDPH). The Department views this as a positive step towards addressing the issue […]
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President Cyril Ramaphosa will tomorrow, Friday, 6 May 2022, officiate the launch of Anglo American’s nuGen™️ Zero Emission Haulage Solution. The launch of the haulage solution, which is a hydrogen-powered, ultra-class mine haul truck, will take place at the Mogalakwena PGM mine in Mokopane, Limpopo. Anglo American’s nuGen™️ Zero Emission Haulage Solution is designed to […]
The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) on Friday inaugurated a primary sub-station, at SefwiBibiani, in the Western North Region, to improve power supply. With a capacity of 2X20/26 Megavolt Ampere (MVA), valued at about GH¢65,810,302.11, the new sub-station would serve 36 towns within the BibianiDistrict. The communities include Anhwiaso, Chirano, Wenchi, Pataboase, Bibiani, Nyinahin, Ntobroso, […]
The Former President of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), Ms Philippa Larsen, has urged the leadership of organised labour, to be vigilant and resolute in negotiating for the 2023 National Daily Minimum Wage and salaries. She has entreated the leadership not to accept any percentage increase below the country’s inflation rate. Ms Larsen […]
DMINISTRATOR POWER: Thank you, Sheerin, for that kind introduction. I’m so pleased to be with you all today to offer some thoughts about the intersection of technology and development. And I’m especially excited to join Temie Giwa-Tubosun, Founder of LifeBank, just after these remarks, for a conversation. Temie’s work uses technology to match excess blood […]
Workers stop work to demand better equipment Paramedics who stopped work three weeks ago have been served with dismissal letters by the Eastern Cape Department of Health. The paramedics are demanding better equipped ambulances with valid licence discs, and cellphones. They want ECG machines, with batteries, spinal boards and baby cots among other things. The […]
The University of Ghana (UG) and the Spain-Ghana Chamber of Commerce (SGCC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for students of the University to undertake internship programmes with companies that are members of the SGCC. The SGCC is a non-profit association of Spanish and Ghanaian companies which aims to promote the commercial and professional […]
Premium Foods Limited, an agro-processing company at Ejisu-Kwaso in Ashanti, operating under government’s One-District-One Factory initiative, has begun the export of Super Cereal to Burkina Faso, under the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). The Company, inaugurated by President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in June 2021, is supported by WFP through the Canadian government, to […]
PRECISION Air announced on Wednesday it is the official airline sponsor of the international tourism trade fair ‘Karibu Kilifair 2022,’ slated for next month in Arusha. Precision Air Marketing and Corporate Communica- tions Manager, Hilary Mremi said in Dar es Salaam that they were proud to be part of the international tourism fair to be […]
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Zimbabwe: Cabinet Acts on Transport Blues
PUBLIC transporter, Zupco, has engaged private contractors with a view to resolving various issues that have seen the majority of operators withdrawing their services resulting in crippling transport shortages across the country. Since last week, commuters in Harare have had to endure long queues at Zupco bus ranks from as early as 4am in the […]
COMMUTERS continue to face transport challenges, especially in Harare, despite the injection of an additional 65 buses into the urban transport system by Zupco in the last nine days. Zupco acting chief executive officer Mr Everisto Madangwa told The Herald that 40 buses were injected on Monday last week while 25 more were fed into […]
GOVERNMENT has applauded the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) for its improved service but urged the parastatal to work towards decongesting tollgates. This was said by Transport and Infrastrucrual Development deputy minister Mike Madiro in his address to the Zinara Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Harare Wednesday. “I am happy to say that this AGM […]
Old Mutual Malawi’s Financial Education expert Benard Chiluzi over the weekend went flat out to offer personal financial management skills at a bridal shower in the company’s quest to reach everyone with the services. Chiluzi delivered the message at the bridal shower of Faith Kwalimba who is yet to get married to Allan Chauluka. Apart […]
Governance and Human Rights Advocate Undule Mwakasungula has accused Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Vice President for the Southern Region and Leader of Opposition, Kondwani Nankhumwa, of being a hypocrite for giving President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera14 days to correct the current national economic challenges. Mwakasungula, in an interview with Nyasa Times on Wednesday, described the […]
Celebrated digital marketing guru, John Lyons will on May 11th 2022 drill Malawian marketers on creative digital marketing. The webinar will be hosted by the Institute of Marketing in Malawi as part of its member value addition drive. Institute of Marketing in Malawi Public Relations Director, George Damson said Malawians will appreciate that the world […]
Inosselia Agro and Greenbelt Authority (GBA) greenhouse-based vegetable farm, which is near Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) in Lilongwe, last week exported its first consignment of 300 kilograms (kgs) of fresh cherry tomatoes to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The farm–one of the biggest producers of high quality tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, bell peppers, watermelons, […]
British American Tobacco (BAT) says export volumes increased by a weighty 163 percent in the first quarter to March 31, 2022 largely driven by cut rag and leaf tobacco shipments. The company said its quarterly export volumes for cut rag and leaf tobacco increased significantly, year-on-year, “Export volumes of leaf and cut rag tobacco were […]
THE pre-planting price for ordinary grade winter wheat has been set at $155 000 a tonne but millers and manufacturers of maize and summer grain products have been urged to import around 300 000 tonnes of maize using their free funds to augment existing stocks. While the late start to the summer rains and the […]