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Vivo Energy Ghana, the exclusive distributor and marketer of Shell branded fuels and lubricants has launched Shell’s most advanced economy fuel, Shell Fuel Save in Ghana and now available at Shell Service Stations nationwide. Shell Fuel Save which has been designed to last for longer, at no extra cost comes in both Super and Diesel product formats. Speaking at the launch of the product, the Managing Director of Vivo Energy Ghana, Mr. Ebenezer Faulkner said Shell FuelSave Super and Shell FuelSave Diesel will replace the current Shell Super Extra and Shell Diesel Extra product across the over 150 Shell service stations in Ghana. Touching on the benefits of the new products, Mr. Faulkner said, Shell FuelSave Super is designed to reduce energy losses in the engine and help improve engine’s efficiency to get motorists a little further on each tank. According to him, Shell FuelSave Super is designed to keep inlet valves clean, prevent deposit formation and improve engine...

Stakeholders in the public tertiary educational sector in Ghana and government have jointly agreed that utilities provision to the public institution will be cost sharing among all parties. According to a declaration signed on the 25th March, 2015 in Accra by all the stakeholders in the public tertiary educational sector, they agreed that the cost of utilities in public tertiary education institutions will be shared between the Government, tertiary education institutions, staff, and students. The declaration states that Government will bear the cost of utilities supplied to academic, (teaching and learning, research and facilities) health and administrative facilities in public tertiary education institutions. However, students on campus will bear the cost of utilities in students’ residential facilities especially as more than 70% of students currently live in private hostels off campus and pay for their utilities thus creating an unfair arrangement where Gove...