Right Consult (RC) Ghana has in collaboration with UR Fog introduced the UR Fog product range of anti-theft security gadgets onto the Ghanaian market, to curb the increasing spate of robbery in homes, offices and banks. UR Fog is an anti-theft security system that is designed to protect lives and...
Parliament is expected to task the regulatory bodies in the financial sector – Bank of Ghana (BoG) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) – to not hesitate in dealing with recalcitrant players to maintain sanity and trust in the industry. A source close to the Finance Committee of Parliament...
The Executive Director of Enterprise Life, Jacqueline Benyi, has said industry will have to invest in academia if the link between the two is to yield mutually beneficial results. “We acknowledge the fact that universities and companies have different business models; however, we are very much aware that some investment...
More than five hundred girls of the Odorgonno Senior High School have been left to make do with an old three-seater toilet facility after an oil cash-funded 18-seat facility constructed alongside a girls’ dormitory broke down after barely four months of usage. The facility was inaugurated in October last year,...
120 deaths, 635 injuries in 10 years Absence of rigorous standards and regulation blamed The nation has since 2007 recorded 120 deaths and 635 injuries from gas explosions, aside from the unquantified economic and social costs running into millions of Ghana cedis. The latest incident at Mansco LPG filling station...
The central bank says government’s inability to meet its projected revenue performance poses considerable danger to government’s fiscal consolidation efforts. Revenue and grants performance for the first seven months of the year – GH¢20.8billion is more than GH¢3.2billion short of the GH¢24billion target for the period under review. According to the...
The Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) are to promote locally-made handicrafts as a major export commodity on the international market. The collaboration, which is expected to generate an estimated US$1billion a year, forms part of a broader strategy of promoting made-in-Ghana products globally. Products...
Kumasi and Sogakope will be the beneficiaries of sugar-processing and cylinder-manufacturing factories respectively to be set-up by Chinese company, Sky Team Ningbo. The sugar-processing factory in Sogakope has already taken-off, and according to the CEO of the Sky Team Group, Annie Shen, the company is looking forward to making an...
As the country moves to firm-up its development and utilisation of renewable energy potential, the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and the Northern Electricity Distribution Company (NEDCo) have been given December as the deadline to submit business models for the integration of distributed renewable energy generation. Vice President Dr. Mahamudu...
General stability in food prices has marginally cut the Consumer Price Index for September by a 0.1 percentage point from the 12.3 percent recorded in August, the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has said. “In August, about four sub-groups in the food basket recorded rates higher than the group’s rate. But...