Advans Ghana has supported 125 schools as part of its Back-to-School Campaign to lessen the financial burden of repayment of loans by these schools by providing a more flexible and extended payment system without increasing interests. Located in the Greater Accra region, Kumasi, Tamale and Ho, these schools have benefited...
Entrepreneurs and small business owners must consider crowdfunding as means to address the challenge of lack of adequate funding for start-ups, John Ampontuah Kumah, former CEO of National Entrepreneurship and Innovations Programme (NEIP), has said. Mr. Kumah who is also Member of Parliament for Ejisu, admitted that access to funding...
The Ghana Audit Service has intimated that it will no longer focus solely on public expenditure in its audit procedures but will also include auditing public income in order to fully fulfil its mandate of protecting the national purse. In a panel discussion at the launch of the service’s 2020...
The Registrar General’s Department (RGD) has sent a strong warning to all persons who wish to or have acted as fronts for foreigners doing business in the country, saying, they will be prosecuted as the new Companies Act is now in full force. The new Companies Act 2019 (Act 992)...
Service providers and vendors in the event organizing industry have expressed frustration at the extent to which the ban on weddings, parties, and large gatherings has had on their businesses since the announcement over the weekend. On Sunday January 31, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo announced the government’s decision to...
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is to appear before Parliament over non-payment to cocoa farmers through their respective Licensed Buying Companies (LBC) for the period of the 2020/21 crop season. First Deputy Speaker Joseph Osei-Owusu gave the directive in a reaction, after a statement by Mr Kofi Adams, MP for...
Jeff Bezos is stepping down as Amazon boss later this year and handing the reins to a company executive few of the public will recognise. However, Andy Jassy, 53, is reported to be a close confidant of Mr Bezos, and has been instrumental in the tech firms's success in recent...
Approximately 14 months ago, various debates around the possible global impact of the coronavirus began to emerge. A few weeks later, the novel coronavirus, (aka SAR-COV-2) had rapidly spread around the world leading many nations to implement strict lockdowns to try and reduce the growing impact of the unprecedented...
The local bond and equities market is witnessing a sustained revival, with data from the Ghana Stock Exchange’s (GSEs) report containing a summary of monthly activities showing that the Ghana Fixed Income Market (GFIM) is outdoing its previous record for volumes traded, as well as the equities market recording...
Gov’t already paying over US$700m annually Unutilised gas, which the country coughs out over US$700million yearly to pay for, could rise further following the arrival of a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Regasification Terminal in Tema. The Tema LNG Terminal arrived in the country last January and is expected to lead...