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...
Unique Insurance Company Limited in partnership with the Afro Asian Assistance a fully owned subsidiary of Trust Re, one of the world’s leading reinsurance companies from Bahrain has launched the first online travel insurance policy in Ghana for air travelers.
The policy which covers travelers, no matter which part of...
Mr. Kofi Adjepong-Boateng, the banker, has taken up a board position with the Economic Advancement Programme of the Open Society Foundations - the charity founded by George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist.
Mr. Adjepong-Boateng joins the EAP board following the announcement made in October 2017 that George Soros has given US$18bn,...
The Entrepreneurs Foundation of Ghana (EFG) has opened nominations for the 8th edition of Ghana Entrepreneur & Corporate Executive Awards 2018. The deadline for entries to be nominated for Ghana’s most prestigious awards for entrepreneurs & corporate executives is 31st January, 2018.
Ghana Entrepreneur & Corporate Executive Awards 2018 is...