The General Transport, Petroleum and Chemical Workers’ Union of the Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC), has called on the government and other stakeholders to kick against Tullow Ghana and Kosmos Energy’s plans to layoff Ghanaian workers over operational challenges. The group in a statement issued on Thursday, February 27, said the two companies are only…
The leadership of transport unions has endorsed the initiative by the insurance regulator to implement an electronic insurance database, to check the menace of fake insurance stickers. The Driver Unions who were moved by their excitement at the news, recently paid a courtesy call on the Commissioner of Insurance at the National Insurance Commission, to…
The General Transport, Petroleum and Chemical Workers Union, is calling on government to revive the ailing ‘Ayalolo’ buses which operate the BRT system in the country to alleviate pressure on public transportation as the novel Coronavirus continues to spread. Earlier this week, the President in an announcement directed all commercial transport drivers to restrict the…
The Institue of Fiscal Studies (IFS) has called for a renegotiation of agreements involving Ghana’s oil and extractive sectors. According to the institute, the country is losing out in its revenue generation due to the poor negotiations. The IFS compared Ghana’s learnings in the oil sector to that of Nigeria and Botswana saying that Nigeria…
After a twelve-year delay, Ghana through the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) will take delivery of some pipelines from the United States of America. The equipment cost the country a total of $63 million dollars, but an additional $8 million has already been used to repair some of the yet-to-be shipped pipelines…
The government has backed the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation’s (GNPC) decision to acquire stakes in Aker Energy and AGM Petroleum Ghana Limited. The $1.6 billion deal has been met with stiff opposition from some 15 civil society organizations who say Ghana is been short-changed. As a result, the Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) working in the…
