Finance Minister to present 2022 Mid-Year Budget Review
The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, will present the 2022 Mid-Year Budget Review in Parliament later today, July 25.Mr Ofori-Atta was scheduled to deliver the...
Why Tekno Miles is one of the best ambassadors for Sportsbet.io
Sportsbet.io snagged a big win when they landed a sponsorship deal with one of the most popular icons in the African music industry in...
Cedi loses 19.2% value to dollar in almost 7 months of 2022 – BoG
The cedi lost 19.2% in value to the US dollar in almost seven months of 2022.According to the Summary of Economic and Financial Data...
Mobile Money transactions fall in May but increase in June despite E-levy implementation
Mobile Money transactions dipped by 18.58% to ¢71.4 billion in May 2022, the month of implementation of the Electronic Transaction Levy (E-Levy).However, in the...
Buy fuel from only certified retailers – NPA
The Head of Consumer Services at the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Eunice Budu Nyarko, has appealed to the public to purchase fuel only from...
Twitter spent $33m in three months on Musk deal
Twitter spent $33m (£27m) on Elon Musk's proposed deal to buy the firm between April and June 2022.It also said its number of monthly...
I’m not sure people sleep on empty stomach in Ghana – Agric Minister [Listen]
JoyNews/AdomNews · I'm not sure people sleep with hunger in Ghana - Agric MinisterMinister of Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has rubbished...
Snapchat owner hit as advertising slump hit sales
Shares in the owner of social media platform Snapchat have plummeted after it missed revenue expectations and warned it faces "incredibly challenging" conditions.The firm...
You are handling eggs wrongly – Ghana Standards Authority tells Ghanaians
The conventional ways of handling eggs, including the sale of broken eggs for consumption, have been identified as posing public health risk.According to the...
GOIL cautions public against fraudulent fuel subsidy promotion
Leading Oil Marketing Company, GOIL, is cautioning the public against a fraudulent fuel subsidy promotion scheme with a link being circulated on social media...
Ken Ofori-Atta must resign over IMF u-turn – Kwabena Agyapong
A former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwabena Agyapong, has called for the resignation of Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta.His call is...
Over ₵5billion bribes paid in both private and public sectors in 2021- GSS
Over ₵5 billion of bribes were paid in both the private and the public sector, this is according to the Ghana Statistical Service's (GSS)...
Elon Musk sells most of it’s bitcoin holdings
Tesla, which made waves last year when it revealed a major investment in Bitcoin, has now sold off most of its holdings of the...
Elon Musk to stand trial in october over Twitter’s lawsuit
A US judge has ordered that Twitter's lawsuit against Elon Musk go to trial in October, a blow to the world's richest man who...
Netflix loses millions of subscribers
After enjoying a long reign as the king of streaming, Netflix faces a tough fight to keep its crown.It lost almost 1m subscribers between...
Ghana ranked 2nd among countries with highest debt default risk in 2022 by Bloomberg
A Bloomberg study has ranked Ghana 2nd among countries with the highest debt default risk in 2022.The country closely follows El Salvador (ranked number...
Uber to pay $2.2m to disabled riders over wait fees
Uber has agreed to pay more than $2m (£1.68m) to settle claims brought by the US government that its wait time fees discriminated against...
NPA, Ministry of Energy tour SIGMA Ghana
Officials of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) and the Ministry of Energy have toured the facilities of SIGMA, Ghana, a multinational company with 24...
Tourists stranded in China over coronavirus surge
More than 2,000 tourists have been stranded in a Chinese coastal city after a surge in coronavirus cases.Officials in Beihai locked down urban areas...
Ghana’s mango export grows 28% to hit $64.6m in 2021
Ghana’s export of mangoes grew by 28% between 2020 and 2021.According to the Ghana Exports Promotions Center (GEPA), the total value of export in...
More OMCs cut fuel prices
More Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) are expected to review the prices of petroleum products downwards, from this morning (July 18, 2022).It’s coming after the...
NPA closes fuel stations in Western Region for cheating consumers
The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) as part of its routine exercises has clamped down on some fuel stations in the Western Region that have...
China faces economic crises over zero-covid policy
China's economy contracted sharply in the second quarter of this year as widespread coronavirus lockdowns hit businesses and consumers.Gross domestic product (GDP) fell by...
Prices of petrol, diesel, LPG to go down from July 16
Prices of Petroleum products are expected to witness some decline from this weekend (July 16th), with diesel expected go down by more than 11%.This...
49% of Ghanaians to stop using e-transactions due to E-Levy – Afrobarometer report
Majority of Ghanaians are not confident at all that government will use the 1.5 per cent currently being charged on Electronic Transactions (E-levy) to...
Multi-Pac Ltd awards winners in ‘Win Big Promo’ draw in Accra
Multi-Pac limited, one of Ghana's leading beverage manufacturer and producers of 5-star energy drink and Perla mineral water among other range of products, have...
Why the HUAWEI nova Y70 is the top entry-level smartphone in Ghana this year
No matter how you look at it, the prices of flagships or high-end smartphones are still a deterrent for many people, especially those on...
Ghana’s debt would have been sustainable if not for Covid-19, Russia-Ukraine war – Bawumia
Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has indicated that Ghana’s debt to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) would have be within the sustainable threshold of some...
Restore fiscal sustainability to cut debt, address economic imbalance – World Bank to govt
The World Bank has charged the country to restore fiscal sustainability going forward in order to facilitate debt reduction to a sustainable level.It also...
Global economic outlook to be ‘darkened’ – IMF warns
The head of the International Monetary Fund has said it will downgrade its expectations for global economic growth this month.Its most recent forecast, issued...
Bill Gates to go off world’s rich list
Billionaire Bill Gates has pledged again to give his wealth away, adding that he will eventually "drop off" the world's rich list.It came as...
Netflix teams up with Microsoft to offer cheap services
Netflix has teamed up with Microsoft to offer a cheaper subscription plan to customers that will show adverts.The streaming giant says the service will...
Uber sued over claims of sexual assault
Uber is being sued in the US by 550 women who were allegedly assaulted by drivers on the ride-hailing platform.The filing includes allegations women...
Euro falls below dollar for first time in 20 years
The euro has fallen below the dollar for the first time in nearly 20 years as the war in Ukraine pushes the single currency...
Inflation hits transport, others by 29.8% in June 2022
Year-on-year inflation shot up further by 2.2% to 29.8% in June 2022, the latest data from the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has revealed.This is...
ISSER boss calls for E-levy rate reduction
Director of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), Professor Peter Quartey, has called for a reduction in the current charges of...
IMF reaffirms support to Ghana
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) team led by Carlo Sdralevich that visited the country to assess the prevailing economic situation after government requested for...
Inflation hits 29.8% in June 2022; transport, food among major drivers
Year-on-year inflation shot up further by 2.2% to 29.8% in June 2022, latest data from the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has revealed.This is the...
Euro falls below dollar for the first time
The euro has fallen below the dollar for the first time in nearly 20 years as the war in Ukraine pushes the single currency...
Mid-Year Budget Review postponed until IMF talks are completed – Reports
Ghana postponed this week’s mid-term budget review until initial meetings with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for an economic program have been completed, according...