<\/p>\n
Business News of Wednesday, 13 December 2017<\/p>\n
Source: <\/strong>ghananewsagency.org<\/p>\n2017-12-13<\/p>\n\nplay video<\/span>Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice President<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\t\t <a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513194066_67_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on Monday said Ghana needed 600 million dollars to achieve 100 percent electricity coverage across the country from the current 85 percent.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Government had put in place measures to enable it to achieve this goal within the next three years, which would facilitate its job creation and industrial agenda and ensure prosperity for all Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p>He said infrastructure development was the building block that would propel the country\u2019s socio-economic development, which was in tandem with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).<\/p>\n<p>Vice President Bawumia said this during a plenary session on the role of the private sector towards the implementation of the SDGs at the African Roundtable Discussion in Accra on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Other panel members who took part in the discussion were; Gunnar Andreas-Holm, the Norwegian Ambassador to Ghana, Nana Osei Bonsu, the Chief Executive Officer of the Private Enterprises Federation, and Ms Razia Khan, the Chief Economist for Africa, Standard Chartered Bank, London.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion was moderated by Ruby Sandhu-Rojon, the Deputy Special Representative for the Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel.<\/p>\n<p>The event was on the theme: \u201cMobilising Support and Accelerating Implementation of the SDGs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VitDj7IRVwM\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Vice President Bawumia said the private sector should be interested in the SDGs because successful implementation of the goals would create stable business climate to work and ensure sustainability of their operations.<\/p>\n<p>He said a Report by the Sustainable Development Commission of the UN indicated that there was about 12 trillion dollars available to the private sector to access towards the implementation of the SDGs.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore every country is supposed to build a strong foundation to achieve the SDGs, which required those countries to have good investment climate with functioning regulatory bodies to facilitate the process, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo whatever you do, you must ensure inclusiveness in order to achieve the SDGs. For instance, in Ghana, we\u2019re prioritising education to make sure everyone, at least, attain senior high education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot build an economy that is exclusive, we must build an economy that is inclusive and since independence the paradigm is shifting from exclusive economy to that of inclusive one whether in the education, healthcare and identifying people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we want in Ghana is ensuring inclusion in everything we do in terms of formalising the economy to facilitate job creation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe launched the national identification system for easy tracking of individuals. We\u2019re also rolling out the digital property addressing system so that every 5.5 square metre of land or water in the country can be uniquely addressed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Vice President called for investment from all stakeholders to implement the SDGs since it would provide a huge opportunity to the vulnerable and deprived in society to be lifted from the shackles of poverty.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on how the private sector could be the engine to create jobs, Vice President Bawumia said one of the major concerns of the youth was to secure gainful employment adding that the Nana Addo Dankwa-Akufo-Addo led government was conscious about it and putting measures in place to create jobs for them.<\/p>\n<p>He said government was creating the enabling environment for investment for both domestic and foreign investors, adding that a conducive business climate was a fundamental ingredient for job creation to propel the fulfillment of the SDGs.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2ww_IY5TfEY\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dr Bawumia called for the introduction of coding in school curricular so that children of school-going age would not be excluded in the digital revolution.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Government introduced the Free Senior High School Policy to provide employable skills to the youth while facilitating plans to extend electricity, water and other basic amenities to the deprived communities.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the decentralisation agenda, he said government had decided to allocate 20 percent of the Budget to implement the \u201cOne Million, One Constituency\u201d initiative so that each constituency would identify its specific needs and channel the funds to resolving them.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fG9CiIz8eA8\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 39 updated by: 39 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business News of Wednesday, 13 December 2017 Source: ghananewsagency.org 2017-12-13 play videoDr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice President Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on Monday said Ghana needed 600 million dollars to achieve 100 percent electricity coverage across the country from the current 85 percent. He said the Government had put in place measures to enable it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":446808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ghana needs 600 million dollars for 100% electricity coverage \u2013 Veep - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ghana needs 600 million dollars for 100% electricity coverage \u2013 Veep - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Business News of Wednesday, 13 December 2017 Source: ghananewsagency.org 2017-12-13 play videoDr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice President Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on Monday said Ghana needed 600 million dollars to achieve 100 percent electricity coverage across the country from the current 85 percent. He said the Government had put in place measures to enable it […]\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Ghana needs 600 million dollars for 100% electricity coverage \u2013 Veep\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-12-13T19:41:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":671,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"articleSection\":[\"Local News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/\",\"name\":\"Ghana needs 600 million dollars for 100% electricity coverage \u2013 Veep - Ghanamma.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-12-13T19:41:06+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"\",\"contentUrl\":\"\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/\",\"name\":\"Ghanamma.com\",\"description\":\"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Ghana needs 600 million dollars for 100% electricity coverage \u2013 Veep - Ghanamma.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Ghana needs 600 million dollars for 100% electricity coverage \u2013 Veep - Ghanamma.com","twitter_description":"Business News of Wednesday, 13 December 2017 Source: ghananewsagency.org 2017-12-13 play videoDr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice President Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on Monday said Ghana needed 600 million dollars to achieve 100 percent electricity coverage across the country from the current 85 percent. He said the Government had put in place measures to enable it […]","twitter_creator":"@ghanamma","twitter_site":"@ghanamma","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"Ghana needs 600 million dollars for 100% electricity coverage \u2013 Veep","datePublished":"2017-12-13T19:41:06+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/"},"wordCount":671,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"","articleSection":["Local News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/","name":"Ghana needs 600 million dollars for 100% electricity coverage \u2013 Veep - Ghanamma.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"","datePublished":"2017-12-13T19:41:06+00:00","author":{"@id":""},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/#primaryimage","url":"","contentUrl":""},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/","name":"Ghanamma.com","description":"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
2017-12-13<\/p>\n
play video<\/span>Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice President<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\t\t <a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513194066_67_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on Monday said Ghana needed 600 million dollars to achieve 100 percent electricity coverage across the country from the current 85 percent.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Government had put in place measures to enable it to achieve this goal within the next three years, which would facilitate its job creation and industrial agenda and ensure prosperity for all Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p>He said infrastructure development was the building block that would propel the country\u2019s socio-economic development, which was in tandem with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).<\/p>\n<p>Vice President Bawumia said this during a plenary session on the role of the private sector towards the implementation of the SDGs at the African Roundtable Discussion in Accra on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Other panel members who took part in the discussion were; Gunnar Andreas-Holm, the Norwegian Ambassador to Ghana, Nana Osei Bonsu, the Chief Executive Officer of the Private Enterprises Federation, and Ms Razia Khan, the Chief Economist for Africa, Standard Chartered Bank, London.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion was moderated by Ruby Sandhu-Rojon, the Deputy Special Representative for the Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel.<\/p>\n<p>The event was on the theme: \u201cMobilising Support and Accelerating Implementation of the SDGs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VitDj7IRVwM\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Vice President Bawumia said the private sector should be interested in the SDGs because successful implementation of the goals would create stable business climate to work and ensure sustainability of their operations.<\/p>\n<p>He said a Report by the Sustainable Development Commission of the UN indicated that there was about 12 trillion dollars available to the private sector to access towards the implementation of the SDGs.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore every country is supposed to build a strong foundation to achieve the SDGs, which required those countries to have good investment climate with functioning regulatory bodies to facilitate the process, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo whatever you do, you must ensure inclusiveness in order to achieve the SDGs. For instance, in Ghana, we\u2019re prioritising education to make sure everyone, at least, attain senior high education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot build an economy that is exclusive, we must build an economy that is inclusive and since independence the paradigm is shifting from exclusive economy to that of inclusive one whether in the education, healthcare and identifying people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we want in Ghana is ensuring inclusion in everything we do in terms of formalising the economy to facilitate job creation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe launched the national identification system for easy tracking of individuals. We\u2019re also rolling out the digital property addressing system so that every 5.5 square metre of land or water in the country can be uniquely addressed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Vice President called for investment from all stakeholders to implement the SDGs since it would provide a huge opportunity to the vulnerable and deprived in society to be lifted from the shackles of poverty.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on how the private sector could be the engine to create jobs, Vice President Bawumia said one of the major concerns of the youth was to secure gainful employment adding that the Nana Addo Dankwa-Akufo-Addo led government was conscious about it and putting measures in place to create jobs for them.<\/p>\n<p>He said government was creating the enabling environment for investment for both domestic and foreign investors, adding that a conducive business climate was a fundamental ingredient for job creation to propel the fulfillment of the SDGs.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2ww_IY5TfEY\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dr Bawumia called for the introduction of coding in school curricular so that children of school-going age would not be excluded in the digital revolution.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Government introduced the Free Senior High School Policy to provide employable skills to the youth while facilitating plans to extend electricity, water and other basic amenities to the deprived communities.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the decentralisation agenda, he said government had decided to allocate 20 percent of the Budget to implement the \u201cOne Million, One Constituency\u201d initiative so that each constituency would identify its specific needs and channel the funds to resolving them.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fG9CiIz8eA8\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 39 updated by: 39 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business News of Wednesday, 13 December 2017 Source: ghananewsagency.org 2017-12-13 play videoDr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice President Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on Monday said Ghana needed 600 million dollars to achieve 100 percent electricity coverage across the country from the current 85 percent. He said the Government had put in place measures to enable it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":446808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ghana needs 600 million dollars for 100% electricity coverage \u2013 Veep - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ghana needs 600 million dollars for 100% electricity coverage \u2013 Veep - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Business News of Wednesday, 13 December 2017 Source: ghananewsagency.org 2017-12-13 play videoDr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice President Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on Monday said Ghana needed 600 million dollars to achieve 100 percent electricity coverage across the country from the current 85 percent. He said the Government had put in place measures to enable it […]\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Ghana needs 600 million dollars for 100% electricity coverage \u2013 Veep\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-12-13T19:41:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":671,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"articleSection\":[\"Local News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/\",\"name\":\"Ghana needs 600 million dollars for 100% electricity coverage \u2013 Veep - Ghanamma.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-12-13T19:41:06+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"\",\"contentUrl\":\"\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/\",\"name\":\"Ghanamma.com\",\"description\":\"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Ghana needs 600 million dollars for 100% electricity coverage \u2013 Veep - Ghanamma.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Ghana needs 600 million dollars for 100% electricity coverage \u2013 Veep - Ghanamma.com","twitter_description":"Business News of Wednesday, 13 December 2017 Source: ghananewsagency.org 2017-12-13 play videoDr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice President Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on Monday said Ghana needed 600 million dollars to achieve 100 percent electricity coverage across the country from the current 85 percent. He said the Government had put in place measures to enable it […]","twitter_creator":"@ghanamma","twitter_site":"@ghanamma","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"Ghana needs 600 million dollars for 100% electricity coverage \u2013 Veep","datePublished":"2017-12-13T19:41:06+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/"},"wordCount":671,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"","articleSection":["Local News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/","name":"Ghana needs 600 million dollars for 100% electricity coverage \u2013 Veep - Ghanamma.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"","datePublished":"2017-12-13T19:41:06+00:00","author":{"@id":""},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/#primaryimage","url":"","contentUrl":""},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/","name":"Ghanamma.com","description":"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\t\t <a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513194066_67_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on Monday said Ghana needed 600 million dollars to achieve 100 percent electricity coverage across the country from the current 85 percent.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Government had put in place measures to enable it to achieve this goal within the next three years, which would facilitate its job creation and industrial agenda and ensure prosperity for all Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p>He said infrastructure development was the building block that would propel the country\u2019s socio-economic development, which was in tandem with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).<\/p>\n<p>Vice President Bawumia said this during a plenary session on the role of the private sector towards the implementation of the SDGs at the African Roundtable Discussion in Accra on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Other panel members who took part in the discussion were; Gunnar Andreas-Holm, the Norwegian Ambassador to Ghana, Nana Osei Bonsu, the Chief Executive Officer of the Private Enterprises Federation, and Ms Razia Khan, the Chief Economist for Africa, Standard Chartered Bank, London.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion was moderated by Ruby Sandhu-Rojon, the Deputy Special Representative for the Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel.<\/p>\n<p>The event was on the theme: \u201cMobilising Support and Accelerating Implementation of the SDGs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VitDj7IRVwM\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Vice President Bawumia said the private sector should be interested in the SDGs because successful implementation of the goals would create stable business climate to work and ensure sustainability of their operations.<\/p>\n<p>He said a Report by the Sustainable Development Commission of the UN indicated that there was about 12 trillion dollars available to the private sector to access towards the implementation of the SDGs.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore every country is supposed to build a strong foundation to achieve the SDGs, which required those countries to have good investment climate with functioning regulatory bodies to facilitate the process, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo whatever you do, you must ensure inclusiveness in order to achieve the SDGs. For instance, in Ghana, we\u2019re prioritising education to make sure everyone, at least, attain senior high education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot build an economy that is exclusive, we must build an economy that is inclusive and since independence the paradigm is shifting from exclusive economy to that of inclusive one whether in the education, healthcare and identifying people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we want in Ghana is ensuring inclusion in everything we do in terms of formalising the economy to facilitate job creation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe launched the national identification system for easy tracking of individuals. We\u2019re also rolling out the digital property addressing system so that every 5.5 square metre of land or water in the country can be uniquely addressed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Vice President called for investment from all stakeholders to implement the SDGs since it would provide a huge opportunity to the vulnerable and deprived in society to be lifted from the shackles of poverty.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on how the private sector could be the engine to create jobs, Vice President Bawumia said one of the major concerns of the youth was to secure gainful employment adding that the Nana Addo Dankwa-Akufo-Addo led government was conscious about it and putting measures in place to create jobs for them.<\/p>\n<p>He said government was creating the enabling environment for investment for both domestic and foreign investors, adding that a conducive business climate was a fundamental ingredient for job creation to propel the fulfillment of the SDGs.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2ww_IY5TfEY\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dr Bawumia called for the introduction of coding in school curricular so that children of school-going age would not be excluded in the digital revolution.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Government introduced the Free Senior High School Policy to provide employable skills to the youth while facilitating plans to extend electricity, water and other basic amenities to the deprived communities.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the decentralisation agenda, he said government had decided to allocate 20 percent of the Budget to implement the \u201cOne Million, One Constituency\u201d initiative so that each constituency would identify its specific needs and channel the funds to resolving them.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fG9CiIz8eA8\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 39 updated by: 39 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business News of Wednesday, 13 December 2017 Source: ghananewsagency.org 2017-12-13 play videoDr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice President Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on Monday said Ghana needed 600 million dollars to achieve 100 percent electricity coverage across the country from the current 85 percent. He said the Government had put in place measures to enable it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":446808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ghana needs 600 million dollars for 100% electricity coverage \u2013 Veep - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ghana needs 600 million dollars for 100% electricity coverage \u2013 Veep - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Business News of Wednesday, 13 December 2017 Source: ghananewsagency.org 2017-12-13 play videoDr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice President Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on Monday said Ghana needed 600 million dollars to achieve 100 percent electricity coverage across the country from the current 85 percent. He said the Government had put in place measures to enable it […]\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Ghana needs 600 million dollars for 100% electricity coverage \u2013 Veep\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-12-13T19:41:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":671,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"articleSection\":[\"Local News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/\",\"name\":\"Ghana needs 600 million dollars for 100% electricity coverage \u2013 Veep - Ghanamma.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-12-13T19:41:06+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/13\\\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"\",\"contentUrl\":\"\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/\",\"name\":\"Ghanamma.com\",\"description\":\"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Ghana needs 600 million dollars for 100% electricity coverage \u2013 Veep - Ghanamma.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Ghana needs 600 million dollars for 100% electricity coverage \u2013 Veep - Ghanamma.com","twitter_description":"Business News of Wednesday, 13 December 2017 Source: ghananewsagency.org 2017-12-13 play videoDr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice President Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on Monday said Ghana needed 600 million dollars to achieve 100 percent electricity coverage across the country from the current 85 percent. He said the Government had put in place measures to enable it […]","twitter_creator":"@ghanamma","twitter_site":"@ghanamma","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"Ghana needs 600 million dollars for 100% electricity coverage \u2013 Veep","datePublished":"2017-12-13T19:41:06+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/"},"wordCount":671,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"","articleSection":["Local News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/","name":"Ghana needs 600 million dollars for 100% electricity coverage \u2013 Veep - Ghanamma.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"","datePublished":"2017-12-13T19:41:06+00:00","author":{"@id":""},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ghana-needs-600-million-dollars-for-100-electricity-coverage-veep\/#primaryimage","url":"","contentUrl":""},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/","name":"Ghanamma.com","description":"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"Bawumia](\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/86807279.295.jpg\" "\\"Bawumia")