Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, has revealed in the 2020 mid-year budget review that government has released an amount of GH¢57,800,000 for the payment of nursing students allowance.
According to the Finance Minister, the stipulated amount is to cover the allowance of some 48,200 nursing students across various nursing training...
Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have called on government and all political parties to help empower the local seed industry by providing an enabling environment and logistical support to ensure that Ghana is seed sufficient.
The CSOs believe that government and political parties can, through their manifestos and policies, safeguard input...
The government expects revenues to fall short of the 2020 budget target by GH¢13.6 billion, or 3.5 percent of revised Gross Domestic Product (GDP), mainly due to drop in petroleum receipts of GH¢5.3 billion.
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, in his presentation of the Mid-Year Budget to lawmakers in Accra, noted...
In order to support ARAP National Stakeholder institutions to improve the digital environment of work in the ongoing fight against Covid-19, the European Union under the Accountability, Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption Programme (ARAP), implemented by the Spanish public foundation FIIAPP, has donated 38.364 Euros in digital tools to...
introduces unemployment insurance
empower GCX, NAFCO to boost food security
expand procurement of local goods and services
Minister of Finance Ken Ofori Atta has announced an ambitious three-and-a-half-year economic recovery plan geared at resuscitating the economy from the impact of the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic with aggressive focus...
The Chief Labour Officer at the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations, Eugene Narh Korletey, has entreated all business to consistently inform the Labour Office about all lay-offs, as it is an offence not to do so under the nation’s labour law.
The move is one of the means through which government is able to...
Former Finance Minister Seth Terkper has demanded that the government presents accurate and transparent data about the economy’s true situation - especially with respect to the deficit figures as it prepares to present the mid-year budget this week.
His comments come on the back of concerns raised by the minority...
By Kizito CUDJOE, Sefwi Chirano
The chiefs and people of Sefwiman Traditional Area have rousingly welcomed the establishment of the Chirano Sefwiman Foundation by the Chirano Gold Mine Limited (CGML), to further boost local development and the livelihoods of the people, in the host communities of the Mine.
The foundation is...
As the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, prepares to deliver the mid-year budget statement sometime this month, the Oil Palm Development Association of Ghana is persisting in its plea for government to create a level playing field for local industry and importers by exempting vegetables oils from the 50 percent...
The Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) was fumigated and disinfected by Dansworld Services Limited in a bid to kill all viruses and bacteria that might be present in their premises. The fumigation exercise was carried out in response to the COVID-19 pandemic which some staff members...