The collaboration between the Ghana Enterprises Agency (GEA) and the Mastercard Young African Works Project, has produced 12,000 hands-on training jobs for unemployed Ghanaian youths under the Apprenticeship to Entrepreneurship (A2E), the Chief Executive of GEA, Mrs. Kosi Yankey Ayeh, has disclosed.
Mrs. Yankey Ayeh has further disclosed that per...
Ralph Mupita, Group CEO-MTN, has reiterated his company’s commitment to supporting government’s development initiatives and reaffirmed Ghana as a key market for the MTN Group.
According to him, Ghana remains a key market for the MTN Group and they are keen on demonstrating their commitment to progress of the country...
Standard Chartered Bank (StanChart) and United Way Ghana have taken steps to build a long-lasting relationship with the Dzorwulu Special School as part of its diversity and inclusion agenda.
As part of the relationship, StanChart, led by Millicent Clarke, Head of Human Resource for Africa and Middle East and Andy...
Benso Oil Palm Plantation (BOPP) PLC, a leading oil palm plantation agric-business in Ghana and Africa, has made an impressive performance despite the coronavirus pandemic.
The company delivered profit after tax of GH¢92.41million compared with GH¢20.69million the previous year, showing a significant improvement of 274 percent of last year’s profit.
The...
Switzerland supports reforms in Extractive Industry in Ghana
Ghana, a country rich in natural resources, joined the Global Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in 2003 in an effort to uphold good governance in the extractives sector. Subsequently, the country joined the Open Government Partnership (OGP) in 2011 to...
Petroleum revenue contribution to the national budget over the last 10 years has been estimated at US$2.6billion, which is out of a total of US$6.55billion in petroleum receipts (equivalent to 9.97 percent of Ghana’s 2020 GDP) earned between 2011 and 2020 by the Ghana Group from its three producing...
The Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA) has advised the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to adopt a more hardline approach to inflation by, among other things, reviewing its medium-term inflation target band of 8±2 percent, which has remained static and is above the target of comparable economies.
According to the public...
The Bank of Ghana Governor, Dr. Ernest Addison, has said the current war between Russia and Ukraine has cast some darkness on hopes of a COVID-era economic recovery, both domestically and globally.
He said tightened global financial conditions, occasioned by the pandemic and ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, have resulted in a...
The Ministry of Finance and the YouStart implementation agencies, in collaboration with the Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development Ministry, have held a sensitisation workshop for Regional Ministers, Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives in the southern part of Ghana comprising the Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions.
The one-day...
COA Mixture, a plant medicine well-known for enhancing the general wellbeing of users, has now been certified to be used as a prescription drug in all health facilities in the country and globally.
This follows its approval and certification by the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) and other international standard...