Many opportunities exist in the agriculture value chain for university graduates to be gainfully employed, as the country seeks to restore the sector to its former glory under the Planting for Food and Jobs Programme, Minister for Food and Agriculture Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto has said. In its review of...
Management and Staff of Zenith Bank, including its customers and partners, on Saturday embarked on its first health walk in 2018 to promote the importance of exercise in the corporate world. This first walk of the year was on the theme: "Together we Aspire...walk for health". The activity that had hundreds...
Barring any hitches, the Electricity Company of Ghana will be handed over to a private entity by last quarter - as part of the conditions under which government accepted the under-US$500million Millennium Challenge Compact Two from the United States of America. The Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) announced on Monday when...
All is set for the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) to update data on the agriculture sector through a new census which comes after some 33 years when the last one was conducted. The GSS will be working together with the Agric Ministry, with support from the Food and Agricultural Organisation...
Dalex Finance’s CEO Ken Thompson has called on the government to increase taxes across board and cut its expenditure to help save the economy from crushing. According to Mr. Thompson the time has come for the Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta, to take some tough measures for and on behalf...
The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) will today meet the directors of defunct UT Bank for them to answer questions on what roles they played that cause the collapse of the bank. UT Bank directors will be followed their colleagues from Capital Bank on April 4, 2018 whose bank...
The Global Chief Executive officer of Unilever, Paul Polman, is in the country on a two- day duty tour. Mr. Polman flew in from the Cote d’Ivoire, Tuesday night, where he joined President Nana Akufo-Addo on a panel at the on- going Africa CEO summit. President Akufo-Addo and Paul Polman...
Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has announced government’s ambition to embark on aggressive exploration in the upstream oil industry to revive the petroleum industry, accelerate discoveries and to replace the depleting oil reserves. To that end, he said, the government would embark on Ghana’s first bidding round later this year...
Parliament has approved a request by the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) to secure a loan facility of US$500million to facilitate its operational activities. Part of the loan facility will also be used to procure vessels to undertake fishing activities and also for the construction of an office complex in...
Simon Dornoo, who formerly headed GCB Bank, has been appointed to lead the team of experts from accounting and auditing firm, KPMG, to revive and stabilise uniBank Ghana Limited. With 25 years experience in banking, Mr. Dornoo will act in that capacity over the six months that uniBank is expected...