Mining company, Transeco Minerals  and Mining has constructed a six-unit Kindergarten for the people of Ampapatia in the Atiwa West District of the Eastern Region. The facility  is part of the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR) and is estimated at 295,000 cedis. Speaking at a ceremony to hand over the school to...
...Akufo-Addo says plant to reduce US$1.5bn car import bill Toyota Tsusho Corporation (Toyota Tsusho Manufacturing  Ghana  ), the company which controls Toyota sales and marketing in Africa, has opened a 1,300 unit vehicle per year assembling plant in Accra. The US$7 million plant, the first by a Japanese firm in the...
Benonita Bismarck, Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Shippers' Authority (GSA), has said the Authority will continue educating haulage drivers to know what is required of them when they reach an axle-load station. She explained that the Axle-Load Protocol was developed in collaboration with Ghana Highway Authority to check certain...
Stakeholders in the fishing sector have entreated government to put in some more effort at fighting illegal fishing activities alongside implementation of the closed-season to help better the sector’s fortunes. According to them, efforts at implementing the closed-season will only lead to positive gains quickly if the fight against illegal fishing...
Suggestions that traditional commercial banking is on a steady decline, with its demise imminent, are wide of the mark and predicated on a misunderstanding of the evolution of banking, as evidence abounds to the contrary, Managing Director of FBN Bank, Victor Yaw Asante has said. The sentiment appears to be...
Zeepay, Africa's leading challenger fintech, has announced the completion of its Series A.0 fund raise in a round led by Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P). The leading Ghanaian fintech announced that it has completed a fundraise of US$7.9million in its Series A.0 - which was a hybrid of both equity...
Deutsche Bank and Investec in partnership with Swedish Export Credit Agency (EKN), Swedish Export Credit Corporation (SEK) and Export Credit Insurance Corporation of South Africa (ECIC) yesterday announced the signing of an agreement to finance construction of a 100km stretch of the Western Railway Line, running from Takoradi Port...
GCB, Ghana’s largest bank, as part of measures to ameliorate the sufferings of its customers from the ravaging effects of the COVID-19, has advanced in excess of GH¢156.1million in personal loans to over 9,000 customers. The enhanced loan product was aggressively offered during the peak of the pandemic to...
The Coca-Cola Bottling Company Limited, as part of its Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR), has so far donated a total of GH¢745, 955 to the COVID-19 Private Sector Fund to help support individuals affected by the virus. The company made its first donation of GH¢ 113,430 on November 1, 2020 followed...
The Official Liquidator for the defunct Fund Management Companies (FMC’s) will on Friday, July 2 have an investor class meeting with customers of some defunct FMC’s. A statement by the Registrar-General stated that “all the creditors of the under-listed companies are being invited to a Virtual First Creditors meeting on...