Government has paid GH¢3.1billion in Tier 2 pension funds to the custodial accounts of  various labour unions’ pension schemes - a move that brings closure to a six-year tussle between government and the unions over management of the funds. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in a meeting with the press...
Even as we tackle the Fulani menace in parts of the Ashanti Region, a security analyst, Dr. Kwesi Aning, is calling for a revision of the strategy. “Operation Cow Leg, driven by the shoot the cattle strategy, is confrontational, is dangerous, is aggravating the problem,” Aning notes. Corroborating this stance...
The Russian Federation has set aside US$1billion to assist Russian companies wanting to invest in the Ghanaian economy, in a move aimed at reinvigorating the sixty-year old diplomatic relations that exist between the two countries and which were strongest in the Nkrumah era. The Russian Embassy in Accra has been...
President Nana Addo Dankwa has announced that government in its first year in office has saved GH₵145m from dubious procurement deals. He stated this when he was addressing the media to assess his one year in office. Nana Akufo-Addo won Ghana’s national election on December 9, 2016, becoming president elect at...
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, will today Wednesday, January 17, 2018 hold an encounter with the Ghanaian media at the Flagstaff House and answer as many questions as possible. It will be recalled that a similar event was held in July, 2017, six months after he assumed the presidency,...
Expatriate businesses expected to take their turn at the Special Committee hearing in Parliament House failed to show up today, for unexplained reasons, Committee chairman, Kwasi Ameyaw-Cheremeh has confirmed. The five member Committee hearing has to be suspended indefinitely due to the no-show of the business companies. Mr Ameyaw-Cheremeh explained “Today...
This year’s international trade fair is scheduled to be held from February 28 to March 7, but the dilapidated state of the International Trade Fair Centre summarises how backward we have been in a lot of respects in our national life. Years of neglect, coupled with its proximity to the...
The newly-installed President of the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI), Dr. Yaw Adu-Gyamfi, has come out strongly to pronounce that this is the time to protect local industries. Dr. Adu Gyamfi emphasised the fact that it is the private sector which creates job opportunities, and if the high unemployment rate...
  A domestic bond market is required to help local businesses raise long-term and sustainable finance for growth and development, a former Dean of the KNUST Business School - Prof. Joseph Magnus Frimpong - has observed. He said: “The establishment of domestic bond market has become a necessity for businesses to...
The Trade Ministry is expected to take its turn tomorrow, at the ongoing five member Special Committee  sitting set up by Parliament to investigate the issues surrounding the recently held Ghana Excellency Business Awards (GEBA). According to the Spokesperson for the Committee, Yaw Buabeng Asamoah the Ministry of Trade and...