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...
The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) is set to introduce some taxes and other charges on Marine Gas Oil (GMO) operations in the country, Hassan Tampuli - CEO of the NPA, has disclosed. The move, he noted, is aimed at curbing some illegalities the Authority has observed in the petroleum downstream...
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...
About 500 poultry farmers are to be trained in the early detection and treatment of various poultry diseases, as the country seeks to reduce mortality in the poultry sector and meet the growing demand for locally produced chicken. A recent USAID survey revealed that Ghanaians consume more than two million...
What a beginning! A republic’s anniversary, an immigration service professing medical expertise while practicing discrimination and a media house DG declaring new courts of prosecution. Happy New Year. Although January’s beginnings in the world of news in Ghana revealed we are off to a troubling start. The above stories signify...
When the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) presented its third quarter performance for 2017, not a single investment was recorded for tourism. According to the report, since the turn of 2017, more than 130 projects worth some US$5billion were recorded and yet not a single dollar was recorded in the...