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Fuel hikes: This is just the beginning as COPEC hints of more increases

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) is hinting at more increases in fuel prices across the country.According to COPEC, in the next two weeks, depending...

SEC postpones crunch Menzgold meeting over lack of information

The much-awaited meeting between the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and embattled gold dealership firm Menzgold Ghana Limited has been moved to Thursday.According to...

Gov’t begins pilot to digitise NHIS cards

The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) will roll out an electronic renewal of National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) cards nationwide by the end of...

COPEC calls for dialogue on escalating fuel prices

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers Ghana (COPEC-Ghana) is calling for a stakeholder-dialogue on the recent fuel prices in the country.Speaking on Asempas FM’s Ekosii...

Market women now using dollar rate to price goods – Allotey Jacobs asserts

The continuous decline of the cedi is having adverse effect on the socio-economic conditions of Ghanaians.So far, the depreciation of the local currency is...

Photos: Fuel prices up at pumps

There’s resentment in parts of the country as up to 3.5 percent fuel price increases take effect at the pumps today, crossing the dreaded...

Oil companies deny ¢40.5m payments that ended up in Chief of Staff account

Bulk Oil Distributors have denied paying ¢40.5m in 'security fees' after revelations, it ended up 'illegally' in the office of the Chief of Staff's...

Coca-Cola preparing to make cannabis drink

Coca-Cola is in ‘serious talks’ to develop cannabis-infused drinks as more countries move to legalise the drug.The Atlanta based drinks giant, which own over...

GIBA fights gov’t-Startimes satellite TV project

The Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA) says a new agreement between the government and StarTimes dubbed Access to Satellite TV for 300 Villages in...

300 villages to benefit from China-aided satellite TV project

The Ministry of Communications in collaboration with StarTimes will on September 26 launch the commencement of the nationwide ‘300 village satellite TV project’.The ceremony...

Seth Terkper now lecturer at University of Ghana

Ghana’s former Finance Minister, Seth Terkper, has been appointed a part-time lecturer at the University of Ghana Business School.Mr Terkper served as Finance Minister...

Seven state institutions crushing Menzgold

The seventh state institution; the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has finally succeeded in temporally shutting down the Ghanaian gold dealership company, Menzgold, effective...

Panic withdrawals could collapse economy – Paa Kwesi Nduom

In the wake of the crisis in the...

Admit cedi situation is bad – Alabi flays Bawumia

Presidential aspirant of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has advised the vice president, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia to come clean on the true state of...

Government seeking strategic investor for Komenda Sugar factory

The president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says government is in the process of finding a strategic investor to revive the “debt-ridden and idle” Komenda...

Finance Minister backs GRA’s new initiatives to increase tax mobilisation

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has introduced ‘the Ghana Revenue Enhancement and Transformation (GREAT) project’ to improve upon professionalism through change in tax management...

Kotoka International Airport Terminal 3 opens to passenger traffic

The Terminal 3 of the Kotoka International Airport became fully operational on September 15, 2018 following the completion of tests and simulation exercises.The opening...

PZ Cussons launches ‘Camel Buy and Fly’ promotion

PZ Cussons Ghana Limited has launched a Camel promotion dubbed ‘Camel Buy and Fly promotion’ to reward loyal consumers with an all-expense paid trip...

Menzgold taps top British law firm to fight SEC regulatory battles

Menzgold has ramped up its legal firepower as it has hired one of the leading British law firms Baker & McKenzie LLP as it...

We’re not out to destroy anyone’s business –SEC

The Securities and Exchange Commission says it is not out there to destroy anyone’s business but only committed to its statutory mandate.“SEC is not...

Your deposits are safe; uniCredit tells customers

The management of financial services company, uniCredit has dispelled rumours that the consolidation of its sister company UniBank has taken a toll on them.In...

BoG injects more dollars into economy

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has stepped up its supply of United States (US) dollars to meet daily demands for foreign exchange as global...

BoG injects more dollars into economy

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has stepped up...

Menzgold halts gold vault market services ‘temporarily’

Management of Menzgold has announced Thursday morning that it has temporarily halted its collectables and any new business related to its gold vault market...

Panic withdrawals hit Menzgold

Scores of customers of gold trading company, Menzgold Ghana Limited, are trooping to the premises of the company to withdraw their investments.This has come...

Inflation for August hits 9.9%

Inflation nears double-digit as Ghana Statistical Service blames the August 9.9% inflation rate on the cedi's free fall.The year on year inflation for the...

Panic withdrawals hit Menzgold

Scores of customers of gold trading company, Menzgold Ghana Limited, are trooping to the premises of the company to withdraw their investments.This has come...

Menzgold reacts to SEC

The Management of Menzgold Ghana finds it very unfortunate that a letter relating to business  discussions between the organization and the Securities and Exchange...

Photos: New sweet potato to be named after Kofi Annan

The Crops Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) will be naming a sweet potato after the late UN Secretary-General,...

Tema ECG chases power ‘stealers’

The Revenue Protection Manager at the Tema Regional office of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Zita Kyei Gyamfi, has disclosed her outfit is...

YahSat launches fast internet service in Ghana

United Arab Emirate (UAE) - based satellite operator, YahSat has launched a Satellite Brand board Service, YahClick in Ghana, to provide fast internet connection...

GRA goes after vehicle owners who evade duties

The Special Surveillance and Monitoring Unit of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has embarked on an operation to seize vehicles whose owners have failed...

2,000 defunct bank staff to lose jobs – Deputy Employment minister

About 2,000 staff of the five defunct indigenous...

(AUDIO): CBG, Unibank workers besiege office to demand August salary  

Over 200 former workers of newly created Consolidated Bank Ghana Limited (CBG) have besieged their employer’s office at Asylum down demanding their unpaid salary.According...

“8.36% agricultural growth in 2017 a result of prudent policies” – President Akufo-Addo

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has attributed the impressive 8.36% growth witnessed in Ghana’s agricultural sector in 2017 to effective policy making and implementation...

No directors? Lawyer opens holes into banking crisis probe

A private legal practitioner has questioned Parliament’s decision to leave out the directors of the defunct banks in their recent probe into the financial...

Public Procurement Authority’s due diligence pays off – Chief Executive

The Public Procurement Authority (PPA) Thursday said it has saved the nation nearly 1.6 billion Ghana cedis, over the past one-and-half-years, through effective value-for-money...

Akufo-Addo breaks silence on banking rot [AUDIO]

President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has spoken for the...

Non-Performing Loans hit GH¢8.7bn

The stock of Non-Performing Loans in the banking sector reached GH¢8.74 billion in June this year, according to the latest banking sector report.The report released...

Staff of Consolidated Bank asked to re-apply

Staff of Consolidated Bank Ghana (CBG) have been...