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		<title>SIM Registration Gets Legal Backing</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parliament yesterday adopted the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) Registration Regulations, 2011 (L.I 2006) to give proper legal backing to SIM cards registration in the country. The regulation, which comes into effect today, has given a grace period of 30 days to mobile phone subscribers to register their SIM cards after which their numbers would be [...]
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<li><a href='http://www.ghananewsnow.com/2010/06/16/deadline-for-registration-of-all-sim-cards-haruna-iddrisu/' rel='bookmark' title='Deadline For Registration Of All Sim Cards&#8230;Haruna Iddrisu'>Deadline For Registration Of All Sim Cards&#8230;Haruna Iddrisu</a> <small>The Minister for Communications Mr Haruna Iddrisu says the National...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://www.ghananewsnow.com/2011/06/21/mad-rush-for-sim-card-registration/' rel='bookmark' title='Mad Rush For SIM Card Registration'>Mad Rush For SIM Card Registration</a> <small>With nine days left to end the touted SIM card...</small></li>
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		<title>Kufour Condemns Inferior Imported Rice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has condemned the importation of substandard rice, particularly from Asia into African markets. The substandard rice, which are imported into the country, have in recent times become the preferred staple of most Ghanaians. Addressing participants at a three-day West African Alliance Against Hunger and malnutrition conference, ex-President Kufour, the 2011 [...]
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<li><a href='http://www.ghananewsnow.com/2010/08/30/fao-launches-campaign-against-hunger/' rel='bookmark' title='FAO Launches Campaign Against Hunger'>FAO Launches Campaign Against Hunger</a> <small>The Food and Agricultural Organisation&#8217;s office in Accra (FAO) has...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://www.ghananewsnow.com/2010/08/10/ghana-spends-450-million-on-rice-importation-annually/' rel='bookmark' title='Ghana spends $450 million on rice importation annually'>Ghana spends $450 million on rice importation annually</a> <small>Ghana currently spends 450 million dollars annually on rice importation...</small></li>
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		<title>Kojo Bonsu Asked To Step Down</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Goil MD Booted The board of the Ghana Oil Company (GOIL), on Monday, took a decisive action that led to the removal of Kojo Bonsu as its acting managing director. Mr. Bonsu was to act until a substantive boss was appointed for the oil company. No new MD was, however, appointed to replace him. An [...]
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<li><a href='http://www.ghananewsnow.com/2011/08/26/ioc-lifts-ghana-ban/' rel='bookmark' title='IOC lifts Ghana ban'>IOC lifts Ghana ban</a> <small>The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has reportedly lifted Ghana&#8217;s suspension...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://www.ghananewsnow.com/2011/07/29/south-korea-to-supply-goil-with-marine-gas-oil/' rel='bookmark' title='South Korea To Supply GOIL With Marine Gas Oil'>South Korea To Supply GOIL With Marine Gas Oil</a> <small>The Ghana Oil Company Limited (GOIL) has signed a contract...</small></li>
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		<title>Government To Procure Oil Meters</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Government will soon procure additional meters as back-up for the Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) Kwame Nkrumah at the Jubilee Oilfield to record accurate quantities of oil pumped from the wells. The Minister for Energy, Dr. Joe Oteng-Adjei disclosed this in Parliament yesterday while responding to a question posed by K. T. Hammond, the [...]
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<li><a href='http://www.ghananewsnow.com/2010/12/21/10-years-of-petroleum-revenues-can-be-collateralized/' rel='bookmark' title='10 years of petroleum revenues can be collateralized'>10 years of petroleum revenues can be collateralized</a> <small>Parliament has approved that government can use oil revenues due...</small></li>
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		<title>Unregistered SIM Cards Can&#8217;t Be Used After March 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) Registration Regulation, 2011 (Legislative Instrument 2006) which was presented to Parliament on November 30, 2011 comes into force, February 2, 2012 after the House had adopted the report of the Subsidiary Legislation Committee on the instrument Wednesday. By the coming into force of the instrument, a framework has been provided [...]
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		<title>Glo Warns Against Employment Agents</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Glo Mobile Ghana Limited has advised the general public to be on the watch for fake individuals parading as employment agents and human resource officials of Glo and extorting monies from innocent persons under the pretext of getting them job placements in the company. &#8220;The general public is hereby informed that Glo Mobile Ghana Limited [...]
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		<title>IOPG To Become Sub-regional Centre For Training Packaging Expertise</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Ebenezer Mante, Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Packaging Ghana (IOPG) on Tuesday said the vision of his outfit is to become a sub-regional centre for training and development of packaging expertise. The body, he said also aims at becoming a leading packaging institution in Africa. He said the IOPG provides world class [...]
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		<title>Glo Mobile Ghana Releases One Million Numbers For Reservation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Glo Mobile Ghana Limited announced on Wednesday that it has reached the threshold set for its number reservation exercise. This has prompted the company to introduce a second block of number series to enable as many people as possible to reserve their preferred numbers. A statement issued by the corporate entity said on January 19, [...]
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		<title>ECG Board Blows $250,000</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The woes of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) continue to deepen as new revelations have unfolded on how the board, led by Dr Kwabena Osafo, blew huge sums of money as sitting allowances. The board, which was expected to supervise the company’s management and check it against the perpetration of any financial malfeasance, could [...]
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		<title>Pension Nightmare!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA) has said that it is worried about how huge sums of workers’ pension funds lodged with the Bank of Ghana can be better invested to yield the best returns to contributors. The situation has risen due to the inability of the pension regulator, the NPRA, to licence three key [...]
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