The Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) has said it is confident it will by May 1, 2018 implement the EasyPASS programme - a voluntary trade facilitation scheme, aimed at ensuring that products imported into the Ghanaian market are of the required quality standards to protect public health and save the...
Aviation industry regulator, the Ghana Civil Aviation authority (GCAA), is to meet all dormant airlines by the end of this month to ascertain the cause of their inactivity and collectively decide on a roadmap for resumption of their operations.
“We are meeting them to find out their current situation so...
New study points to strong subscriber and mobile broadband growth in West Africa
The mobile industry in West Africa is forecast to contribute more than US$50billion annually to the region’s economy by 2022, according to a new GSMA study published at the ‘Mobile 360 – West Africa’ event being...
XpressGas Limited, a distributor and marketer of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) in Ghana, has supported two special needs schools with free LP gas for a year, as well as donations worth GH₵15,000.
The schools are the New Horizon Special School and Dzorwulu Special School.
The Board Chair of XpressGas Limited, Prof....
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says although his administration has only been in office for 15 months, the track record of Government, in the first year, indicates that the Agenda for Jobs, which formed the basis upon which he won the 2016 election, is on...
The Inflation Rate for March 2018 dropped marginally to 10.4%, representing 0.2% decrease from the 10.6% recorded in February, 2018.
According to the release issued by Ghana Statistical Service at a news conference (GSS) in Accra, “the year-on-year inflation rate as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 10.4...
Vice President of the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI), Humprey Ayim-Darke, has asked government to adopt innovative ways of financing planned reforms at the country’s seaports without levying shippers overbearingly.
Specifically, he called for a shift from situations where shippers are made to bear the cost of revenue enhancing programmes...
Delays in the completion of some projects - notably roads, schools among other infrastructure funded with proceeds from the petroleum revenue - led to cost overruns of at least GH¢104million, according to some 11 projects monitored by Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC).
In some cases, the cost of projects...
HFC Bank has given indication it will raise an additional GH¢255million through a renounceable rights issue, in a bid to meet the GH¢400million new minimum capital requirement.
The bank raised GH¢50million in a similar fashion in November 2017 to meet the then-minimum capital requirement of GH¢120million; and according to its...