A leading US Republican says she fears for the future of her seven grandchildren with Donald Trump in the White House. Christine Todd Whitman, head of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under George W Bush, accused Mr Trump of ignoring compelling science. And she warned that his threat to scrap climate protection policies puts … Read more
A few countries have fared well, but others have seen the value of their currencies fall dramatically. Egypt took the radical decision to let its currency float freely in November. The move was part of an attempt to ease its deep economic crisis and secure an emergency loan from the International Monetary Fund. The Egyptian … Read more
Dealing with the feeling of ‘being left behind’ just in time for 2017 Two days more and 2016 will be no more. Incredible isn’t? 365 days have just gone by like that and a look back can either make you depressed, elated, disappointed or confident of days ahead. These are emotions that will arise depending … Read more
In the eyes of the operators of Jubilee oil field, it was a record time of development from discovery to first oil in December 15, 2010. To the government of Ghana, getting the Petroleum Revenue Management Act 815 in March 2011, 3 months after first oil, “was good decision to guide how oil revenues were going to be spent”. … Read more
In the eyes of the operators of Jubilee oil field, it was a record time of development from discovery to first oil in December 15, 2010. To the government of Ghana, getting the Petroleum Revenue Management Act 815 in March 2011, 3 months after first oil, “was good decision to guide how oil revenues were going to be spent”. … Read more
Berkeley Professor Emerita Arlie Russell Hochschild ’s newly published Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger And Mourning On The American Right is an important book and a delight. It’s a sociological – almost anthropological – foray into the minds, hearts, and lives of the Tea Party — my own Tribe. Prof. Hochschild’s jacket biography describes … Read more
The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has assured the people of the Western Region that his government, God-willing from January 2017, will develop the region into an oil services hub with a first class port facility, to serve the needs of West Africa. This, he explained, will be … Read more
The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has assured the people of the Western Region that his government, God-willing from January 2017, will develop the region into an oil services hub with a first-class port facility, to serve the needs of West Africa. This, he explained, will be done … Read more
The global fall in prices of crude has slowed down operations of businesses in the oil and gas sector in Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis. The economic situation in the Western Regional capital improved largely due to the discovery of oil and gas in 2007 as businesses and multinationals flocked to the city. But the sharp downturn in … Read more
The global fall in prices of crude has slowed down operations of businesses in the oil and gas sector in Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis. The economic situation in the Western Regional capital improved largely due to the discovery of oil and gas in 2007 as businesses and multinationals flocked to the city. But the sharp downturn in … Read more
Desperation has set in, government machinery is virtually shut down as the Chief of Staff who is supposed to be running the government systems is on the campaign trail, Kwmena Ahwoi has his team, Asiedu Nketia is on the other side. The otherwise neglected and abandoned Amissah-Arthur who is a ‘constitutional Vice-President’ with no active … Read more
It may be that the results in what many see as Ghana’s closest ever election on 7 December could come down to a choice between sugary, fizzy drinks. On our tour through the battleground regions, we stopped off at a lively café in Cape Coast where customers joke with the shopkeeper. “Give me Akufo-Addo,” says … Read more
The Obama administration is planning to give a final approval needed for the Dakota Access oil pipeline as soon as Monday, Politico reports. The approval would be a major defeat to environmentalists, the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and its American Indian allies, just days after Republican Donald Trump’s election to be the next president. Opponents … Read more
A few days ago, Mahama’s Chief of Staff, Julius Debra REPEATED Candidate Mahama’s spiel at a rally in the North, that Mahama is one of them, and so they should vote for him. Nobody has raised any issue with this tribalistic statement. Not even the AKANS who have been sidelined by President Mahama and his … Read more
Former United States Secretary of State and Senator Hillary Clinton phoned real estate magnate Donald Trump in the early morning hours of November 9 to concede defeat in the national presidential elections. During the course of 2015-2016, the corporate media networks were highly critical of all campaigns outside the one conducted by Clinton. Nonetheless, both … Read more
Hillside, New Jersey, October 27, 2016 – Since the U. S. JOBS Act passed in September 2013, the larger investment community has been gauging just how much of a factor online investing will make in funding America’s premier start up entrepreneurs. The situation is finally clearer as to the real influence funding portals, like www.castlepeakfinance.com, … Read more
The oil industry has caused widespread environmental damage in the Niger Delta Militants say they have blown an oil pipeline in south-east Nigeria. The Niger Delta Avengers said it attacked a pipeline belonging to the oil giant Chevron. The petrol firm refused to confirm whether an attack took place citing its long-standing policy of not … Read more
The son of renowned Nigerian environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was executed more than 20 years ago, has died in London. Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr, 47, passed away after suffering a stroke, his family say. He was a journalist who became a presidential adviser. The 1995 execution of his father by a military government for leading … Read more
Ghana has begun supplying gasoline and gas oil to the landlocked countries of Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali from the Bolgatanga Petroleum Depot. The state-owned Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company (BOST) Limited is also supplying petroleum products from the depot to Benin and Nigeria. The Minister of Petroleum, Mr Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, who made … Read more
In 2009, Kosmos Energy, a small oil exploration company in Texas, wished to cash in on its discovery of an oil field off the coast of Ghana — one of the largest found in West Africa in a decade. The company had an eager buyer in ExxonMobil. But some in Ghana believed the firm had … Read more