The current funding regime of government's flagship program, the free Senior High School (SHS) programme from the consolidated fund must shift to taxation as a special purpose vehicle for the long-term sustenance of the policy, Member of Parliament for Effutu, Alex Afenyo-Markin has suggested.
According to the legislator, a great...
Park Agrotech Ghana Limited, has launched a high potency poultry feed range, Lay More, onto the market to help farmers increase poultry yield.
“Today we have launched the “Lay More” range of poultry feed for layer birds. There are five different grades of feed which have been launched, each for...
Moves into Contract Mining with 21years life of the mine
Between 2000 – 2500 to be employed
Tax Concession Agreement and Development Agreement Awaiting Parliamentary Approval
Mine production for 10years – averaged 350,000oz – 450,000oz at an average head grade of 8.1g/t.
The initial cost of the project...
Members of the Presidential Task Force on the ECOWAS Single Currency Programme have reaffirmed their political will to meet the Bloc’s single currency programme deadline by 2020.
They also reaffirmed their commitment to ratify and implement all relevant ECOWAS Protocols and Conventions, as well as a gradual approach wherein member-states...
The board of the Ghana EXIM Bank has approved a GH¢300million financial seed fund to support various industries in the country.
CEO of the Bank, Lawrence Agyinsam, said the beneficiary industries include oil palm, pineapple, poultry, creative arts, pharmaceutical manufacturing, as well as garment and apparel manufacturing.
In collaboration with the...
The country is yet to tap into the US$5.8bn organic fertiliser market, though most of the organic plants needed for its production abounds.
The 2017 edition of the Fertiliser Statistics Overview of Ghana from 2013 to 2016 reveals that the country imported an average of 234,802mt of inorganic fertiliser -...
Roads Minister, Kwasi Amoako-Attah, has said government is expected to pay GH₵17.8billion as ‘commitment fees’ inherited from the previous administration on road contracts.
He told Parliament on Wednesday, when he was contributing to the President’s State of the Nation debate that: “As at January 1, 2017, the total commitment at...
With the economy tipped to become Africa’s fastest-growing, investor appetite is high for Ghana as one of Africa’s leading private equity firms, Advanced Finance & Investment Group LLC (AFIG Funds), has made a significant capital injection into First Atlantic Bank (FAB) to help it meet the GH¢400million minimum capital...
Prosecutors from more than a dozen countries joined forces on Wednesday, at a landmark summit aiming to boost the global fight against modern slavery by convicting more criminals and tracing dirty money.
The three-day event, the first of its kind, brings together prosecutors from countries including Albania, Nigeria and Sudan....
The Head of the Economics Department of the University of Ghana, Prof. Peter Quartey, has said the central bank’s inflation-targetting mechanism remains effective, suggesting that calls for abolition of the regime are premature.
Prof. Quartey was speaking at a public lecture organised by the Department of Economics, University of Ghana...