Ghana’s policy interest rate ranked 2nd highest in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ghana’s policy interest rate of 14.50% is ranked second highest in Sub-Saharan Africa, according to Fitch Solutions tracker of policy rates.This makes cost of...
Akufo-Addo commissions NEIP’s 75 greenhouses, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Centre
President Nana Akufo-Addo has commissioned seventy-five greenhouses and an entrepreneurship and innovation centre constructed by the Business Development Ministry and the National Entrepreneurship and...
MTN invests $2.5m into artificial intelligence to fight MoMo fraud
MTN Ghana has announced that it is investing US$2.5 million to beef up its artificial intelligence so they can win the fight against mobile...
Govt will support SSGL to build waste treatment plants across the country – Osafo-Maafo
Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo has announced government’s support for Sewerage Systems Ghana Limited (SSGL), a subsidiary of Jospong Group of Companies, to enable the...
MTN aYo outline new benefits for clients
MTN aYo Insurance has doubled the benefits on its Recharge with Care (RwC) policy for customers, effective August 1, 2020.The policy is two-fold -...
Over 40 mobile money fraudsters arrested – MTN
Over 40 mobile money fraudsters have so far been arrested across the country.According to the Mobile Money Limited, its collaboration with the police led...
Inflation returns to upward trajectory; hits 11.4% in July 2020
Inflation returned to the upward trajectory, albeit marginally, to hit 11.4% in July 2020.According to figures from the Ghana Statistical Services, increases in food prices continued...
Banks lose GH¢ 102 million in profits for 2020
The Ghana Association of Bankers has estimated that about GH¢102 million has been forfeited by commercial banks in the country through various measures they...
Nana Dufie Addo appointed Chief Operating Officer of Ghana Investment Promotion Centre
The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Nana Dufie Addo as its new Chief Operating Officer (COO). She...
NITA brings MDAs, MMDAs onboard ‘smart workplace’ platform
The National Information Technology Agency (NITA) is set to bring onboard various Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) as well as Metropolitan and Municipal District...
Android vs. iOS: Which mobile OS is best?
It is possible to use a smartphone running an operating system other than Google's Android or Apple's iOS (Tizen, LineageOS, /e/ anyone?), but the likelihood that you're doing...
32 IDIF factories working – Exim Bank CEO
About 32 companies under the flagship One District One Factory (IDIF) have been completed and operational, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Export-Import...
Ghana Airports Company replies Mahama
The Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) has replied some assertions made by former president John Mahama in an interview on pro-National Democratic Congress (NDC)...
Account for GH¢ 1.5 billion revenue collected by PDS – NDC to govt
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has challenged the Akufo-Addo government to immediately render account for monies collected by the Power Distribution Services (PDS)...
Loyalty Insurance set to reward customers using digital platform
Loyalty Insurance Company Limited, a non-life insurance company wholly owned by Frimps Oil Company Limited has introduced a digital payment and reward system for...
New research highlights cost-effective strategies to strengthen Ghana’s economy
New research on measures to spur growth across all sectors of the Ghanaian economy was presented by economists in Accra on Saturday, August 8,...
Telcos deny under-declared taxes allegation by Communications Minister
The Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications; the umbrella organization for telecommunications industry in the country, have expressed worry over the continuous recurrence of claims by...
‘KelniGVG’s common platform has saved Ghana GHS 1.5 billion in undeclared taxes by telcos’
The government has made savings of GHc1.5 billion in under-declared taxes in the telecommunications since the implementation of the Common Platform (CP) in the...
Smuggled Planting for Food and Jobs fertilisers intercepted
The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) and the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority have intercepted 84 bags (25Kg) of smuggled NPK fertilizer meant...
The economy we inherited could never have survived Covid-19 – Akufo-Addo
President Nana Akufo-Addo has said the economy his government inherited from the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) could not have sustained expenditures incurred during...
I have paid all depositors of defunct banks – Akufo-Addo
President Nana Akufo-Addo says the government has paid all depositors of collapsed banks.According to the president, no single depositor has been left out...
Gold price rises above $2,000 for first time
Gold has topped $2,000 (£1,527) an ounce for the first time as traders look for havens amid the pandemic.Investors have moved cash into the...
Hollard Ghana’s Patience Akyianu honoured
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Hollard Ghana, Patience Akyianu, has been named the 'Outstanding Group CEO of the Year, 2019.'This was at the...
45% revenue loss media reportage misleading – GRA
Statutory revenue mobilisation body, the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), has described as 'misleading' media reportage of the GRA failing to meet its revenue target...
AkooBooks Audio Platform to feature ‘Time With David’ this August
AkooBooks Audio is proud to bring archives of material from award-winning journalist and renowned interviewer, David Ampofo’s Time With David, to listeners.Time With...
ICUMS not responsible for variance in revenue target
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has denied reports by the media that the not-so-long-ago Integrated Customs Management System (ICUMS), deployed at the country's points...
All the photos you need to see from unveiling of first VW-assembled vehicles in Ghana
President Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo has unveiled the first VW vehicles assembled by the newly-established VW Assembly Plant in Ghana.The plant, which assembles...
How free SHS policy saved Akosombo Textiles Limited
Factory Manager of the Akosombo Textile Limited (ATL), Ing. Kenneth Asare, says the Free Senior High School (SHS) policy saved the indigenous printing company...
We have put all doubting ‘Thomases’ to bed – Akufo-Addo at VW car unveiling
President Nana Akufo-Addo on Monday, August 3, 2020, unveiled the first Volkswagen (VW) car assembled in Ghana, stating doubting Thomases have been put to...
Shoprite to exit Nigeria after 15 years
South Africa’s grocery retailer, ShopRite, is leaving Nigeria, 15 years after it opened a shop in the West African country.Shoprite opened its first store...
Public agencies directed to purchase textiles, garments locally
President Akufo-Addo has directed all public agencies to buy all their textiles and garments locally.This directive he said, forms part of measures government is...
Covid-19 pandemic reduces patronage of dog meat in Builsa North District
The coronavirus pandemic is not only affecting multinational and national businesses worldwide but also the patronage of dog meat.The meat is a delicacy at...
No salvaged car importation into Ghana from November 1
The law banning the importation of salvaged vehicles into Ghana comes. into effect on November 1, 2020.Shipping agents, Importers and freight forwarders were therefore...
Police nab 2 TV station managers for promoting swindlers
The Cyber Crime Unit of the Ghana Police Service has arrested the general managers of Accra-based free-to-air (FTA) television stations, AB TV and Amen...
ECG explains how lifeline consumers will enjoy free electricity up to January 2021
The Electricity of Ghana (ECG), following President Nana Akufo-Addo’s announcement to absorb 100% electricity bills for lifeline residential customers (customers who consume between 0-50kVVh)...
GCB Bank announces huge profit at 26th Annual General Meeting
GCB Bank recorded significant growth in profit before tax of ¢573.67 million from ¢450.17 million in 2018.This is a growth in profit by 27.4...
Checkout prices for State Housing Company’s affordable houses
Ghana's State Housing Company (SHC), says it has made great strides in providing affordable housing for all Ghanaians across the country. The housing units according...
KGL Technology receives NLA license to operate online lottery products
The license was presented to the company at the Authority’s Board Room by the Board Chairman and Director-General, Togbe Francis Nyonyo and Kofi Osei-Ameyaw...
Komenda Sugar Factory will work again – Naana Opoku-Agyemang
The running mate of the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has asked her kinsmen people of Komenda to appreciate the confidence reposed...
France gives ECOWAS $58 million loan
A €50 million ($58,613,000) loan agreement has been signed between the French Development Agency (AFD) and the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID).The...