VIP Jeoun Transport Limited, in partnership with Vivo Energy Ghana, has introduced a new terminal at the Airport Shell Fuel station to provide exclusive services to commuters from Accra to Kumasi.
Dubbed: ‘Premium Centre’, the terminal …
The Member of Parliament for Bolga Central, Mr Isaac Adongo, has disagreed with assertions from the Ministry of Finance that its recent sale of some US$2.25 billion bonds was to help restructure the country’s debt.
Rather than helping e…
The Small Taxpayer Office (STO) of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) in Cape Coast failed to meet its revenue target of GH¢8,762,654.39 for 2016. The Authority fell below its target by 9.54 percent, which, therefore, puts the revenue colle…
The third IBFD Africa Tax Symposium will take place from 10-12 May 2017 in Accra, Ghana. Building on the success of the past two symposia in Zambia and Uganda, this increasingly popular event comes to West Africa for the first time this ye…
Pan-African law group Centurion and South Sudanese firm Awatkeer enter strategic alliance
Centurion is the first international law firm to establish a presence in Juba, plans to begin work with Awatkeer serving government, private and…
Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), says billionaire businessman, Aliko Dangote, may become the largest exporter of rice in the world by 2021
Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Ban…
A total of 14,400 cocoa farmers across Ghana are to benefit from a premium of GH¢1,147,696.00 for the 2017/2018 season.
Each of them would receive Gh¢8 as bonus on each bag of cocoa sold to the company, Utz Limited, a leading cocoa buyi…
A private banking consultant, Ms Nilla Selormey, has reiterated the need for Africa to develop a diaspora strategy that will utilise skills of returnees to harness opportunities in the continent.
She said the strategy must have clearly…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will, tomorrow, launch the government’s flagship agricultural programme, ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’, in Goaso in the Asunafo municipality in the Brong Ahafo Region.
Modelled on the highly successf…
The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said the government has saved the country $300 million by reviewing and prioritising some Power Purchase Agreements.
According to him, 20 of such agreements have been cancelled, four others ha…
Shear Power Ventures, in partnership with the Rural Enterprises Programme (REP) and National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI), is promoting equitable distribution of wealth in Ghana’s districts through proper implementation of the …
The year-on-year inflation rate for March 2017 fell to 12.8 per cent compared to the 13.2 per cent recorded in February 2017.
The Acting Government Statistician, Mr Baah Wadieh on Tuesday at a Press Conference in Accra attributed th…
The government has set the right economic tone in its first 100 days in office to signal a positive investment climate for the country to attract the right Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) to boost the economy, the Chief Executive Officer…
The Nigerian government has taken key steps to consolidate gains in the country’s ongoing efforts to complete migration from the analogue television system to a digital terrestrial one.
The Federal Government has consequently awarded a…
Collective bargaining is an indispensable part of the theory of social partnership. This encapsulates the way to which labour relations thrive. Social partnership in this context may be defined as a partnership between organised labour and…
Groupe Nduom (GN) Bank on Tuesday opened a new branch at Abura Dunkwa in the Abura Asebu Kwamankese District of the Central Region to provide close-to-client banking services.
The Abura Dunkwa branch is the 32nd in the Central Region an…
Cargill has celebrated the establishment of its own Licensed Buying Company (LBC), Cargill Kokoo Sourcing Ltd, in Ghana.
The new LBC has been fully operational since November 2016, and allows Cargill to directly source cocoa from cert…
Trailer and truck drivers operating from the Tema Port have appealed to the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) not to use the proposed certification and verification of their vehicles to throw them out of work.
The drivers, who e…
The World Bank cut its economic growth forecast for Kenya due to a slowdown in the expansion of loans to the private sector and a drought that may hurt output.
Gross domestic product in East Africa’s largest economy will expand 5.5 perc…
The Meridian Port Services (MPS), Tema, has been adjudged the Terminal Operator of the Year at the maiden Ghana Maritime and Shipping Awards held in Accra.
MPS was awarded for providing world-class Container Handling services, which c…
Ghana and the Czech Republic have signed a double taxation agreement to eliminate the incidence where income from both countries are taxed twice.
The Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori Atta, and the Czech Ambassador to Ghana, Margita Fusch…
Fishmongers in the Western Region, have been advised to use smokeless oven for fish processing in order to safeguard their health and that of fish consumers.
The smokeless oven also known as “Ahotor Oven” was introduced by the Sustainab…
Supermarket giant Tesco has reported a fall in full-year pre-tax profit after it was fined for overstating its profits in 2014.
It said it had taken a £235m charge after it agreed a deferred prosecution with the Serious Fraud Office and…
Ms Catherine Ashiley, a former Director, Currency Management Department of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), has described the commemorative five Ghana cedi banknote as the “most modern” banknote in the world.
She said the note, issued to celeb…
Vodafone has scrapped roaming charges for UK customers in 40 countries, meaning they can use their plans there without additional costs.
However, the new terms are being applied initially only to new or upgraded contracts.
The EU is …
A global market economist, Mr Ayomide Mejabi, has predicted the local currency will from the third quarter of this year start depreciating at a slower pace to end the year at GH¢4.65 to a dollar.
He explained that the recent performance…
A seasoned banker and lawyer, Mr Anselm Raymond Sowah, has been appointed by the Board of Directors of GCB Bank Limited (GCB) as Managing Director of the bank.
He replaces Mr Ernest Mawuli Agbesi who resigned as MD of GCB Bank last week…
Inflation rate for the month of March hit 12.8 per cent compared to the 13.2 per cent recorded in February 2017. This means that the general price level of goods and services went up by 1.3 per cent between February 2017 and March 2017, an…
Enterprise Group has opened an ultra-modern service center in Kumasi, which seeks to enhance service delivery to their numerous clientele in that region of Ghana. The Enterprise Market is an innovation of the Enterprise Group, and the onl…
OPEC cut oil output in March by more than pledged under a supply reduction deal and said oil inventories had fallen in February, suggesting that its effort to clear a supply glut that has weighed on world oil prices is succeeding.
But t…
Wal-Mart Stores Inc will offer 'pickup discounts' to U.S. shoppers on items they order online and pick up in-store, as it revamps its e-commerce offerings at a faster pace to close the gap with larger rival Amazon.com Inc.
Online orders…
With the expansion of the Victoria Falls International Airport in Zimbabwe, South African Airways has increased capacity between Johannesburg and the popular leisure destination of Victoria Falls. The recent introduction of Airbus A330-20…
Japanese potato crisp-maker Calbee and its main rival Koike-Ya are facing a major crunch in their supply chain.
Both firms are said to be suspending sales or discontinuing several crisp brands after Japan suffered its worst potato harve…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday urged the British Airways to upgrade the quality of their services on the Accra-London-Accra route, as the airline prepared to commemorate 80 years of flying into Ghana.
He said that the…
The government has reduced the retail price of fertiliser from GH¢85 to GH¢54 to boost crop production in the country, the Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has said.
He said the move was also to ensure that farm…
Trading on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) ended in the positive in the week ending April 7, as investors, confidence in some banking stocks, revived their appetite for the equity.
As a result, the GSE Composite Index improved by 1.79 pe…
The President of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS), Ghana, Mrs Stella Addo, has urged public institutions to use electronic platforms for their procurements to increase their efficiency.
E-procurement, she said, wa…
The World Bank has pledged to support the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development (MoFAD) to review activities under the West African Regional Fisheries Programme (WARFP) and to restructure it for improved results.
The World B…
The government is expected to lose an estimated GH? 308.30 million in revenue as a result of the reduction in the Energy Sector Levies.
Out of this amount, GH¢185.28 million and GH¢123.01 million are estimated National Electrification …
Fidelity Bank Limited has received a loan of $ 54 million from two companies to enable it to provide long-term capital to small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
The companies are The Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO) a Dutch d…
The Northern Ghana CSO Platform on Agriculture has pledged to hold government accountable in the delivery of its promises to the sector.
The CSO Platform, a brainchild of the Northern Ghana Governance Activity (NGGA) Project will aim at…
Madam Lydia Lariba Bawa, the Commissioner of the National Insurance Commission, on Tuesday urged insurance companies to treat their customers fairly to improve customer satisfaction and confidence in the sector.
She said fair treatment …
The Parliament’s Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and Cocoa Affairs has indicated that the Ministry of Food and Agriculture may not be able to carry out its “Planting for Food and Jobs” programme if the Ministry of Finance goes on wit…
The lack of a single window for trade facilitation in many West and Central African countries has become an impediment to intra-regional trade, the Secretary General of the Port Management Association of the West and Central Africa (PMAWCA…
The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) is to revive its pension scheme for informal sector workers after four years of inaction.
The scheme was introduced in 2010 as a pension buffer for informal sector workers but fiz…
Management of MTN Ghana says it will continue to focus on creating a distinct customer experience for its valued customers.
A statement issued by Mrs Cynthia Lumor, Corporate Services Executive of MTN, said the telecommunications comp…
The Cocoa sector continues to be a sensitive commodity to Ghana’s economy in 2016 and the country therefore has to increase its yields in the coming years to realise its full benefits in the export sector.
“As a result of the key impac…
Tigo Ghana’s flagship Corporate Social Responsibility programme, Shelter for Education, has partnered with Raising Readers Foundation, a non-governmental organisation that is committed to encouraging children to read.
At an official…
MTN, Ghana’s leading Telecommunications Company and Business World, Ghana’s foremost business magazine today announced that Jamil Qureshi, author of the internationally acclaimed bestselling book “The Mind Coach: Be the person you want to …
Crude oil edged back from a five-week high on Tuesday, as rising U.S. shale oil production weighed against support from tensions in the Middle East and production cuts in OPEC and other states.
Brent crude LCOc1, the international bench…
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