Mr Robert Ahomka Lindsay, a Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry said, Ghana has an unlimited possibilities and opportunities and a steady advancing and dynamic economy.
He said there was no doubt that the World Bank had indicated that…
U.S. online retail giant Amazon said on Thursday it will create 2,000 permanent contract positions this year in France, its largest market in Europe after Britain and Germany.
The increase will bring Amazon’s total number of permanent Fre…
Ghana has been lauded for its performance under African Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA); more than doubling its exports to the United States to about $300 million between 2016 and 2017, reflecting a general growth of African exports to…
Supermarket chain Lidl has hit a milestone of 700 UK stores after it opened five new stores in one day.
Although the chain is dwarfed by Tesco and Sainsbury, whose stores number thousands, it and close rival Aldi are now third and fourt…
Dr Eric Osei-Assibey, Adjunct Senior, Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), has advocated for a rethinking of Ghana’s inflation targeting (IT) regime, in order to accelerate the nation’s socio-economic development.
He said, if Ghana’s IT…
The capital’s three leading malls, West Hills Mall, Accra Mall and Achimota Retail Centre, have jointly unveiled an unprecedented holiday promotion, which will sponsor lucky shoppers and their partners on all-expense-paid trips to dreamlan…
Dr Johnson Asiamah, a former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), on Wednesday called for a concerted effort to enhance the effectiveness of the monetary policy regime in the country.
Dr Asiamah said in Ghana, the financial marke…
BEIGE, a Financial Services Provider has launched a tier-3 personal pension scheme targeted at ensuring financial independence for subscribers during retirement.
The ‘EveryDayPension’ retirement plan allows subscribers to save at least …
Mantrac Ghana Limited, the authorized dealers of Caterpillar products and services in Ghana has launched a Mobile Application for its Used Machines. The user-friendly application brings the biggest display of Used CAT® Machine showcased at…
The Africa Tech summit takes place on 14 and 15 February in Kigali, Rwanda
Fintech is boosting financial inclusion across Africa, according to Ecobank (www.Ecobank.com/group), the leading independent pan-African banking group, a pionee…
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has asked the Bank of Ghana to assess and review the country’s inflation-targeting regime 10 years after its implementation.
Although the regime had helped in reducing inflation over the period of…
India's second largest state-run bank has uncovered a $1.8bn (£1.3bn) scam linked to a single Mumbai branch.
The fraud amounts to nearly a third of Punjab National Bank's (PNB) market value, and 50 times its profits for the last quarter…
Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) cars won in six of the 19 categories in an annual auto industry reliability survey published on Wednesday, while Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCAU.N) trailed in the bottom three of the report’s main rankings.
Co…
US consumer prices rose faster than expected in January, a sign of firming inflation that bolstered expectations of higher interest rates.
The Consumer Price Index grew by 0.5% against forecasts of a 0.3% rise.
The report followed ea…
Tonaton.com has in partnership with Ghana’s Top Real estate developers launched a new development platform as it moves to firmly establish the Tonaton property vertical as Ghana’s largest and most valuable.
The new portal tonaton.…
The government of Ghana has been urged to recognise handicraft as an economic enterprise that could create opportunities for economic growth in rural communities, increase employment avenues and reduce income inequalities among the people.…
A total of 13,784 farmers comprising 11,197 males and 2,587 females have benefited from government’s Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) initiative in the Volta Region since its inception in 2016.
The Region registered a total of 40,277 fa…
Mr Mawuko Williams, a Senior Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) Expert at the Frankfurt School of Business and Management, has called for the adoption of a single national Identification (ID) system to facilitate effective and effic…
The Minister of Tourism Arts and Culture, Mrs Catherine Abelema Afeku, on Tuesday cut the sod for the construction of the Tetteh Quarshie Cocoa Museum at Akuapem Mampong, in the Eastern Region.
The project is a multi-purpose, ultra-mod…
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has named Newmont Ghana the country’s Overall Largest and Best Taxpayer for 2017 under its Large Taxpayer Office at its annual awards ceremony to honour employees and other stakeholders. In 2016, the compa…
Link Commerce will focus on marketing the patented turnkey e-commerce platform
SAN FRANCISCO, February 12, 2018—Award-winning patented global e-commerce companies, Mall for Africa and Mall for the World, today announced the launch o…
Egypt has strong potential to develop further its mining sector and attract significant international investment
Australian Ambassador Neil Hawkins is delighted that Australian mining companies are showing increased interest in Egypt&…
Hilton Cairo Heliopolis Opens alongside Towers Luxury Hotel, the Soon-To-Be First Waldorf Astoria in Africa
Hilton (NYSE:HLT) (http://HiltonWorldwide.com) continues its growth and development in Egypt, 60 years after first entering the …
Among the awards: five Red Dot Design Awards (Europe), three Good Design Awards (Japan) and the International Design Excellence Award (USA)
More than 60 Design Awards in 2017
Twelve design awards have been received so far in 2018
A…
Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG, Ms. Janina Kugel, together with regional and pan African executive management visited Sudan
Energy identified as a catalyst for growth
Local skills development identified as key p…
World's Leading Health Organizations Release Third Edition of Widely Used Resource on Family Planning
Global Handbook Gives Health-Care Providers Accurate and Practical Guidance for Counseling Clients
Family planning is considered a …
U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said the government is considering raising the tax on gasoline as one option to pay for the newly released infrastructure proposal.
“The president has not declared anything out of bounds, so eve…
The European Union economy grew at its fastest pace in a decade last year, figures from the EU statistics office Eurostat have confirmed.
The 28-strong EU expanded by 2.5% in 2017, its strongest performance since 2007, when it grew by 2…
Are you thinking of doing some growth hacking for your business, or hiring a company to do it? Perhaps someone convinced you that it was a great idea, and that it wasn't too hard to do.
While there are many courses and sites availa…
New plant will add equivalent power needed to supply more than 100.000 Ghanaian homes
25 MW pilot power plant will utilize Isopentane gas as a fuel source
New plant will add equivalent power needed to supply more than 100.…
The Upper West Regional (UWR) Secretariat of the National Youth Authority has recruited 300 unemployed youth in the region for training under the Digital Marketing and Entrepreneurship programme.
The national programme, which was unv…
The stock exchange recorded a much higher trading activity in 2017 than in 2016 in both the equity and fixed income market, the Managing Director of the Ghana Stock Exchange Mr Kofi Yamoah said on Tuesday.
The significant gain on the GS…
The Asante-Akim South Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Mr. Alexander Frimpong, has called for the youth to give up on illegal mining to save the environment.
He said it was in everybody’s interest that they took care of the rivers and s…
This year, more than 600 startups from 52 different countries took part, more than 12 000 online votes were gathered, and 41 million people reached on social media
Startup.Info (https://Startup.info) has announced the winners of…
A strategic evidence-based data survey on employee’s performance, remuneration and welfare in the banking sector was on Tuesday launched in Accra.
The survey christened “Ghana Banking Human Resource Survey” was to provide the banking se…
The World Chess Federation (Fide) says its Swiss bank accounts have been closed after its president was accused of facilitating transactions on behalf of the Syrian government.
Russian millionaire Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was added to a US Tr…
The ABABI index family has two additional sub-indices (the ABABI capped and the ABABI excluding South Africa indices) to provide more diversification and reduce investors’ exposure to one major country.
The African Development Bank anno…
Ecobank scored the five-trophy hall at The Banker awards, which were held on 29th November at the Hilton London Bankside, with Cameroon, Guinea Conakry, Gambia, Togo and Uganda
Ecobank (www.Ecobank.com), the leading pan-African bankin…
“We are literally in a race against time. In the context of the fourth industrial revolution, with rapid growth in artificial intelligence, robotics, nanotechnology, biotechnology, genetic engineering, and big data analytics, it’s clear th…
Uber Technologies Inc narrowed its fourth-quarter loss to $1.1 billion from a loss of $1.46 billion in the previous quarter, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The ride-hailing company’s quarterly revenue rose 11.8 percent …
Japan's economic growth slowed in the last three months of 2017 and missed expectations, preliminary official figures show.
The world's third-largest economy expanded at an annualised rate of 0.5% in the quarter, against analyst forecas…
The biggest carmakers on the planet are posting their sales numbers for 2017 - so who is officially ranked number one?
Is it Germany's Volkswagen Group - which knocked Toyota off the top spot in the 2016 figures?
Or one of the newer …
Being offered cash at the gate to take a later flight because of overbooking may become a rarity if technology being examined by major airlines such as British Airways (ICAG.L), JetBlue (JBLU.O) and Qantas (QAN.AX) catches on.
The force…
We have talked a few times around here about a socialist republic that has been hit hard by sanctions imposed by the U.S. government and that, in response, is planning to issue its own cryptocurrency to raise money. I mean Venezuela. Venez…
Eni Ghana has signed two separate MOUs with the Bui Power Authority and the Volta River Authority for a joint development of power generation from renewable sources.
The MOU signed with the Volta River Authority aims to develop sola…
The major annual gathering for the African private sector takes place on 26 and 27 March in Abidjan
More than 1,200 decision-makers from more than 60 countries are expected to debate the theme of "African Champions: Powering Compe…
A practical, stylish and convenient smartphone series with serious attitude
Samsung Electronics Africa today announced the introduction of its latest addition to the Galaxy A series: the 2018 Galaxy A8+ unto the Ghanaian market.
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The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) at the weekend honoured taxpayers for their contribution towards national development at its 2017 edition of the Stakeholders Awards in Accra.
The awards night was also used to reward hardworking staff …
The National Health Insurance Authority is proposing a special tax on sugar-sweetened and alcoholic beverages as additional source of funding for the National Health Insurance Scheme.
The new levy would be put on beverage companies, whi…
Mr Mawuko Williams, a Consultant with the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, on Monday said huge financing gaps were reducing the job creation potentials of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs).
He said many SMEs that were…