Mr. Gavin Pike, the new Managing Director of Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL), paid a courtesy call onthe Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia at the Jubilee House on Monday 6th November 2017. He was accompanied by  Ms. Teye Mkushi, new Finance Director, Mr. Gabriel Opoku-Asare, Corporate Relations Director and Ms. ...
Minister for Defence, Mr. Dominic Nitiwul, has cautioned individuals or groups of persons occupying Ghana Armed Forces land across the country to vacate said land by the end of this year. “Well, ignorance is not an excuse, it is your duty to go to the Lands Commission and check if...
The outgoing President of the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) James Asare-Adjei has disclosed that, the Association has established an Industrial Development Fund (IDF) in place of the bank it initially projected. According to Mr. Asare-Adjei, the association in reviewing progress on establishing a bank, rather took decision to start...
Tullow Oil Plc raised its production guidance on Wednesday, aided by higher output from its TEN and Jubilee fields in Ghana. The company now expects full-year West Africa net oil production, including production-equivalent insurance payments, to come in at 85,000-89,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd) compared with its prior...
Executive Director of policy think-tank, Policy Initiative for Economic Development, Daniel Anim-Prempeh, is asking government to consider a review of the Petroleum Revenue Management Act (Act 815) to enable it tap the Heritage Fund to run the under-resourced technical universities. With such a strong fiscal backing, he argues that government...
The government wants more private sector support in creating jobs for the nation’s growing youthful population. Seth Osei Akoto, Director of Crop Services at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, said this at the launch of Agric Management System (AMS), an innovative end-to-end solution and the Virtual Farmer Programme (VFP),...
The Ministry of Education (MoE) has finally received clearance to employ over 22,000 personnel --both teaching and non-teaching staff-- after government put a ban on employment in the education sector in the last few years. “The ministry has received clearance to replace, recruit, reappoint and re-instate 22,802 personnel of different...
The regulator of mobile money services, the central bank, has been urged to come up with an urgent policy that offers protection to consumers of mobile financial services in the event of any service provider’s collapse. Isabelle Barres, VP of the Center for Financial Inclusion and Director of Smart Campaign...
There is a certain mistrust that characterises NDC-NPP politics in Ghana and which is making the country look, increasingly, like it does not uphold the sanctity of contracts; and experts warn this could give investors the wrong impression. While contract cancellations have led to judgement debts in the past, with...
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has been charged to take advantage of the numerous opportunities afforded by technology to increase the tax to GDP ratio, and thereby help reduce the country’s dependency on aid and donor support. “The country’s tax to Gross Domestic Products (GDP) ratio, which is quite alarming,...