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...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has named Martin Amidu as the Special Prosecutor at a press conference held at the Flagstaff House today. Mr Amidu who was the former Attorney General during late President Atta Mills’ era becomes the first Special Prosecutor for Ghana, in the country’s quest to fight...
Ghana’s only domestic and regional airline, Africa World Airline (AWA), will from January 16, 2018 start Lagos-Monrovia service via Accra, as it seek to improve connectivity withing the West African sub-region. The airline is offering a promotional fare of starting from US$199 on the Lagos-Monrovia route and passengers can log...
PRH: The Bank of Ghana plays a crucial role in formulating and implementing policy in the banking sector. What are you doing to ensure Ghana’s balanced and sustainable economic growth? Dr. Addison: The core mandate of the Bank of Ghana as the Central Bank is price stability. In broad terms,...
Government missed out on its inflation target for year 2017 by 0.6 percentage points, ending the year with 11.8 percent against a target of 11.2 percent, the Ghana Statistical Service’s (GSS) December release has shown. The figure also represents a 0.1 percentage point rise over the 11.7 percent recorded in...
Phoenix Insurance Company, a leading insurer in Ghana, has responded to calls for industry to team up with academia by boosting the University of Ghana Endowment Fund with a donation of GH¢250,000.00, as part of its corporate social investment towards in improving teaching and learning in institutions of higher...
Vodafone Ghana amassed 20 key awards in 2017 - highlighting a year in which the company consolidated its position as a company of choice in Ghana. The telecommunications sector underwent key changes last year; notably, increased competition, market consolidation and a heightened demand for choice by customers. Despite all these,...
The Dormaa Area Teachers’ Cooperative Credit Union (DATCCU) in the Brong Ahafo Region has recorded sound growth in the 2016/2017 financial year, posting a net surplus of GH¢808,080. The 2016/2017 surplus achievement is an improvement over the 2015/2016 figure of GH¢726,821. Members’ deposits also grew significantly, from a little over...
The USAID Financing Ghana Agribusiness Project (USAID- FinGAP) has awarded ten (10) various agribusiness actors for their diverse contributions to growth and development of the sector, especially in the three northern regions. The awardees are players in areas such as financing, farm aggregation, agro-processing, business advisory and farming. They were...
Government must work to expedite the release of goods at the various ports of entry through improvement in the pre-arrival processing in compliance with global best practices, Mr. Dietmar Jost, An International Trade and Customs expert has said. “Even though Ghana has made some progress in introducing the pre-arrival system...