The Vice-President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has urged the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to partner with the private sector to develop the local economy. He said: "This is to move the MMDAs from provision of essential services to promotion of enabling environment for the private sector to partner with...
The Takoradi Branch Office of the Ghana Shippers’ Authority (GSA) held a sensitisation seminar for shippers in the Central Region on 27th May, 2022 at the Swedru Business Resource Centre. The forum was organised in collaboration with the Business Resource Centre at Swedru, a key agency of the Ministry of...
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has praised Vodafone Ghana for its enormous support for sustainable development in the Ashanti Region. According to him, apart from Vodafone’s support for the prestigious Asantehene Open Golf Championship, it has introduced interventions that benefit everyone, especially women and children, for which he commended...
Japan Motors Trading Company Ltd. (JMTC), sole distributors of Foton range of vehicles has unveiled the New Foton Auman GTL AMT (Automatic Mechanical Transmission) Tractor Heads with Cummins Engine and ZF Gearbox with European Standards. Foton Auman AMT models are the most popular and successful in the Chinese market and...
The Managing Director of Consolidated Bank Ghana LTD. (CBG), Daniel Wilson Addo has met with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, at No.10 Downing Street, ahead of the Commonwealth Business Forum (CBF 2022) scheduled for Rwanda later this month. The meeting was organized by the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council (CWEIC)...
Huawei has been acknowledged for playing a key role in expanding mobile network connectivity to some unserved and underserved rural communities in Ghana to drive digitalisation. Huawei is the technical partner on the Rural Telephony Project which seeks to bring connectivity to over four million Ghanaians in underserved and unserved...
Patronage of fertiliser for this year’s planting season is hitting a snag – an all-time low - as farmers are currently having difficulties procuring the commodity for crop production due to rising costs. Although there is an appreciable amount of fertiliser in the system, according to the Peasant Farmers Association...
Tullow Oil has confirmed its merger with Capricorn Energy, a fellow British oil and gas company that offers the combined entity oil reserves in excess of a billion barrels across multiple countries in Africa. A statement from Tullow said: “The boards of directors of Tullow Oil PLC (Tullow) and Capricorn...
President Nana Akufo-Addo has inaugurated some 100 new sets of mercury-free gold processing equipment intended to curb environmental pollution and land degradation arising from the wide use of mercury and other harmful chemicals by illegal small-scale miners in the country. The new technology, comprising crusher, miller, concentrator, and upgrading smelting...
Government is partnering a consortium of nine banks to provide credit to existing youth-led companies and, in the process, create one million jobs in the next three years. Under the commercial programme of the YouStart initiative, the banks will provide support for existing youth-led businesses with between GH¢100,000 working capital...