The National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA) has certified two trustees who are ready to roll out the newly-launched Diasporan Pension Scheme, targeted at Ghanaians living abroad who hope to return home on a good pension. Falling short of mentioning the two trustees, the Chief Executive Officer of the NPRA, Hayford...
NPL ratio to reduce Interest rates to drop Private sector to be biggest beneficiary  The government’s roadshow to raise a bond to clear the much talked about energy sector debt, which is in excess of US$2.5billion, has excited bankers. The roadshow for the long-awaited bond issuance saw some...
Government is seeking to streamline the business registration process and allow for the issuance of just a Certificate to Commence Business, as part of reforms contained in the amended Companies Act currently before Parliament. Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia was speaking at the launch of the Registrar General’s Department E-Certificate...
Britain saw its smallest budget deficit for any September in the last 10 years, according to official figures. Last month's deficit stood at £5.902bn, down almost 11% compared with the same month last year, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. With many economists having forecast a deficit of about £6.5bn,...
Bechem United retained their Ghana Premier League status after recording a 1-0 win over Great Olympics on Match Day 30 at the Nana Fosu Gyeabour Park on Sunday. The breakthrough arrived after just three minutes on the clock, as Amed Toure fired home from close range to hand the Hunters...
Former Power Minister, Dr. Kwabena Donkor, has emphasised the  role the Volta River Authority (VRA) played in the 2015 agreement with AMERI, for the provision of a 250 MW power plant in the heat of the country’s power crisis, when he appeared before Parliament’s Mines and Energy Committee on Friday. Addressing...
Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Minister of Communication, on Wednesday said information collected for the National Digital Property Addressing System would be kept under lock and key. According to her the system would also make it difficult for criminals to hide in the country as well as prevent them from accessing or hacking...
A high-powered business delegation representing Ghana - led by the High Commissioner to Canada, E. Ayikoi Otoo, and CEO of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre, Yofi Grant - rang the closing bell on the US$2.2trillion Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) on Tuesday, October 17, 2017. Other members of the delegation included...
More than five hundred girls of the Odorgonno Senior High School have been left to make do with an old three-seater toilet facility after an oil cash-funded 18-seat facility constructed alongside a girls’ dormitory broke down after barely four months of usage. The facility was inaugurated in October last year,...
Government will soon introduce a procurement policy that will bond its agencies and large companies operating in the country to source majority of their raw materials and inputs from local producers once such inputs are available, Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah, a Deputy Trade and Industry Minister, has said. “The policy will...