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More Japanese companies to invest in Ghana’s economy

The Japanese Ambassador to Ghana, His Excellency Tsutomu Himeno, has announced that more Japanese companies are willing to invest in Ghana’s automobile, energy, health...

Audio: Nduom’s debt list: Nduom has damaged my reputation – CEO of Asabea Construction

Asabea Engineering and Construction Limited, one of the company’s which featured in the Group Nduom list of debtors, has denied owing Dr Papa Kwesi...

Petroleum prices increased as OMCs apply revised energy sector levies

Prices of the various petroleum products have started going up from Monday after the various Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) were directed by the National Petroleum...

TMA to sue Cocobod, Dangote, others over rates non-payment

The Tema Metropolitan Assembly is considering suing some big companies operating in the Metropolis for failing to honour their rates and bills which amount...

When will any local bank rise? Duncan-Williams laments

The General Overseer of the Action Faith Chapel International has said it troubles him that there is no indigenous bank that has been able...

‘Secure Your Health Card International’ puts C4C Homeopathic Hospital ahead of the rest in Ghana

C4C Homeopathic Hospital has been adjudged the leading Homeopathic Hospital in Ghana by Pillars of Modern Ghana.The award comes after the hospital launched the...

Audio: Banking crisis: Govt collapsed banks, others deliberately – Isaac Adongo

A Member of Parliament’s Finance Committee, Isaac Adongo, has said that the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, is limited in his appreciation of the...

Nduom sues BoG, others over revocation of GN Savings and Loans license

The Chairman of Group Nduom, Papa Kwesi Nduom has sued the Bank of Ghana; Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta; Attorney General, Gloria Akuffo; and...

BoG not collapsing rural and community banks – ARB Apex Bank dismisses claims

The ARB Apex Bank has urged the public to disregard rumours that the Central Bank will soon revoke licenses of rural and community banks.In...

Gov’t to review benchmark value in next year’s budget

Government is likely to make changes to the custom policy introduced in April 2019 which saw a reduction in benchmark values on some goods...

Audio: PPA boss likely to walk free – Lawyer hints

Lawyer of embattled Chief Executive Officer of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA), Adjenin Boateng Adjei says his client will be exonerated from corruption charges...

Banking sector crisis: Licenses were issued anyhow – Kofi Amoabeng

President of UT Holdings, Prince Kofi Amoabeng has blamed the challenges in the banking sector on the regulator’s poor scrutiny of the sector.  In an...

Ghana Gas to commence supply of gas to Karpowership in October

The setting up and laying of pipelines to power the relocated Karpowership from Tema to the Sekondi Naval Base is about 85 per cent complete.Ghana Gas...

2020 daily minimum wage up 11 percentage point – Employment Minister

The 2020 National Daily Minimum Wage (NDMW) has gone up 11 percentage point over the 2019 NDMW of GHC 10.65 to GHC11.82, effective from January 1,...

High court orders closure of Nsawam GCB branch

The Koforidua High Court on Thursday morning ordered for the closure of the Nsawam branch of GCB Bank due to its failure to release...

‘Ghana-made’ Toyota to be ready in August 2020 – CEO to Akufo-Addo

The President and Chief Executive Officer of Toyota Tsusho Corporation, Ichiro Kashitani, has assured the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to expect the...

Gold prices edge higher on recession worries, trade uncertainty

Gold prices eked out gains on Thursday as recession fears dented risk sentiment, with traders tracking the latest on a bruising U.S.-China trade war...

Nduom releases list of over 4,200 companies, individuals and schools owing him GH¢423million

As part of the processes initiated by the President and Chairman of Groupe Nduom (GN), Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom through the Gold Coast Fund...

Veep launches 100,000 housing project at Afiaman

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia on Wednesday cut the sod for construction works to begin on a landmark 6,500 housing units at Afiaman, near Amasaman,...

Fabewoso: School Feeding Programme Secretariat chases MMDAs for cash [Video]

The Ghana School Feeding Programme Secretariat is asking 81 Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to pay monies from the sale of application forms...

Finance Ministry refutes Bloomberg’s 20-year bond report

The Finance Ministry has dismissed Bloomberg’s report which seeks to suggest Ghana's debut 20-year domestic bond was a failure and under-subscribed.“We were aware that...

Fake-branded bars slip dirty gold into world markets

A forgery crisis is quietly roiling the world’s gold industry.Gold bars fraudulently stamped with the logos of major refineries are being inserted into the...

Lotto operators threaten sit-down strike

The Association of Lotto Marketing Companies is threatening a two-week sit-down strike.This is due to what it says are delays by the National Lottery...

Bawumia’s spokesperson justifies closure of GN Savings and Loans

Spokesperson of the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, Dr Gideon Boako, says the government does not owe GN Savings and Loans, contrary to the...

Success Story: Unik Life Microfinance to pay depositors funds on Wednesday

The management and board of UNIK LIFE Micro Finance have finally concluded discussions with the Receiver, Eric Nana Nipa to enable the Micro Finance...

Yango introduces fix price feature

Accra, August 2019 – Ride-hailing app Yango, in response to customer feedback collated over the past few months in Ghana, has introduced the fixed...

Audio: Probe resignation of BOST MD…COPEC to govt

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers, Ghana (COPEC, Ghana) wants the government, to as a matter of urgency, investigate the circumstances leading to the resignation...

Rosewood: Group gangs up against Chinese wood factory in Sissala

A group, calling itself Concerned Citizens of Sissala Land, has raised concerns about the increasing rate of illegal felling of rosewood, an endangered tropical...

Bijou Homes takes on Obuasi & Kumasi

Following the open house event in July, Bijou Homes has hit the garden city, Kumasi and mining town of Obuasi with activities to raise...

Akufo-Addo names Edwin Provencal as new BOST CEO

President Nana Akufo-Addo has nominated Mr. Edwin Provencal as (the new ) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the Bulk Oil and Transport (BOST) company...

PPP guru suspects ‘dirty’ politics in closure of GN Savings and Loans

Director of Operations of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Nana Ofori Owusu, has said the closure of Groupe Nduom's GN Savings and Loans Limited...

Govt fails to secure targeted GH¢450m in historic 20-year bond sale

Government has failed to secure the entire amount targeted in its historic 20-year bond sale, which was to secure it about GH¢450...

BOST MD Mensah Okley quits

Managing Director for Bul Oil Storage and Transport (BOST) Company Limited has resigned.George Mensah Okley is said to have tendered in his resignation to...

BoG replies former Dep. Governor over bank clean-up comments

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has responded to the recent comments made by the former Deputy Governor, Dr Johnson Asiama regarding high cost of...

Donkomi: PPA Board must be investigated – Emile Short (Video)

Justice Emile Short, former Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), is calling for investigations into the activities of the...

I never asked fishermen to engage in ‘saiko’ – Fisheries Minister

Madam Elizabeth Afoley Quaye, the Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, has refuted claims that she had purportedly encouraged a group of fishermen to undertake illegal...

GRA taskforce seizes assorted drinks without excise tax stamps

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) Taskforce on Thursday confiscated assorted beverage products without Excise Tax Stamps affixed on them in Accra.The products are red bull energy...

Santol Energy to embark on health screening for tanker drivers

Santol Energy, one of the country's rapidly growing oil marketing companies is set to organize an eye screening exercise for all tanker drivers at the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR).Santol...

Read full suit: Bank of Ghana sued for revoking Unicredit licence

The mother company of Unicredit Savings and Loans Company - Hoda Holdings Limited has sued Dr Ernest Addison and the Bank of Ghana for...

Producer Price Inflation jumps to 8.8 per cent in July

The Producer Price Inflation rate for July 2019 was 8.8 percent, up 1.7 percentage points from 7.1 per cent recorded in June 2019, the Ghana Statistical...