Leaders of African Union member-states, including President Nana Akufo-Addo, at an Extraordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union signed onto a roadmap for the proposed Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, on Wednesday, March 22.
As part of...
It appears government’s decision to impose a 17.5 percent VAT on mobile phones is causing consternation among traders and some economic thinkers.
The Ghana Union of Trader Associations (GUTA) has fired the first salvo and is asking government not to contemplate any such imposition. GUTA’s point is that while they...
Though some doubts were entertained as to the feasibility of government’s proposed ‘One District, One Factory’ industrialisation programme, news by our Northern regional correspondent filtering in from Tamale suggests strongly that the programme is gearing up to take-off in the northern ecological zone as preparations are finalised.
Implementation teams, we...
On 15 March, 1962, President John F. Kennedy sent a special message to the US Congress in which he formally addressed the issue of consumer rights.
He was the first world leader to do so, and the consumer movement now marks 15 March with World Consumer Rights Day every year as a means of...
In a bid to rid the country of the fear that has accompanied the recent spate of armed robberies, lawlessness and general insecurity, President Akufo-Addo has outlined some measures his government is undertaking to beef-up security and ensure citizen-protection.
Apart from securing CCTV cameras to be installed at all police...
The annual Aggrey-Fraser-Guisberg Memorial Lectures, which was instituted in 1957 to commemorate three distinguished personalities in the nation’s history, is a major event in the life of the University of Ghana and indeed the nation as a whole.
The theme for this year’s lecture was ‘Nkrumah and the Making of...
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) signed a loan agreement in September last year with 25 banks to borrow US$1.3billion. The facility was critical in COCOBOD’s pursuit to purchase a total of 850,000 tonnes of cocoa from farmers for the crop season.
Amid fears that the loan cannot be repaid, the...
Identity fraud and fraudulent transactions are major risks in the global banking system, and that is why financial institutions go to great lengths in trying to insulate banks from cybercrime and other fraudulent activities.
In fact, PwC’s Global Economic Crime Survey 2016 revealed that cybercrime has now jumped to the second...