Majority of Ghanaians want stiffer punishment for corrupt public officials, including jail time, restitution of stolen funds, and public shaming, according to a new Afrobarometer survey.
Findings show widespread popular perceptions of corruption in both government and private-sector leadership, with the police and judges most widely seen as corrupt.
But public...
The economy does not need another development bank along the lines of the Agric Development Bank (ADB) and the National Investment Bank (NIB), Kenneth Kwamena Thompson of Dalex Finance has said.
Reacting to government’s intention to set up a “national development bank” to “mobilise private capital toward agricultural and industrial...
As though the 550-basis points cut seen in 2017 was not enough, South African-based RMB Research believes the central bank has more wriggle room to further trim its policy rate by between 200 and 300 basis points in 2018, which could trigger aggressive lending rate cuts.
In its reaction to...
Unlocking Women and Technology (UWAT), an iSpace initiative that gives women between the ages of 18-35 years an opportunity to learn how to code and start-up their businesses has reach reached its business incubator stage.
The ladies who were selected into the 2017 training programme were taken through a three...
Harmonization of medical products is taking place in the regional economic bloc, to ensure that processes, quality of work is standardized across the ECOWAS sub region including Ghana, in a bid to check fake drugs or medical products cutting across the borders.
Addressing the press during the opening of...
West African countries have launched the Medicines Regulatory Harmonisation Project (MRHP) that ensure smooth and standard registration of medicines produced in the sub-region.
Speaking at the launch of the project in Accra on Monday, the Deputy Health Minister for Health, Kingsley Aboagye Gyedu, stated that, “The intent of all these...
The Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, Ms Sigrid Kaag visited Ghana on Monday, November 27,2017. Since her assumption of office some weeks ago, Ghana is the first African country she has visited.
The purpose of her visit was to reaffirm and further strengthen the excellent relations between...
The Minister of Education, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has reminded all technical universities of the need to resolve all the outstanding transitional issues to make the conversion process complete.
Most polytechnics in the country were converted into technical universities through the promulgation of the Technical Universities Act, 2016, ACT 922,...
Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has said government will increase the installed generation capacity by about 487MW through Cenpower (340MW), Early Power Phase 1 (147MW), this year to meet the growing demand for electricity.
Presenting the budget, he said the country’s installed generation capacity was increased from 4,132 MW in 2016...
Ghana is set to get its first waste to energy recycling plant, as the Ghana Plastic Manufacturers Association readies to establish a £5million recycling facility.
The plant, to be located at Akunse in the Eastern Region, will transform sachet-water-bags waste into carrybags, which after use will also be converted -...