Africa Investment Forum 2018: African Development Bank achieves significant progress with energy projects across Africa
Noteworthy gains were realized in the energy sector as various expressions and letters of interest were signed for p…
The use of blended finance as a tool to address risk perceptions and crowd in private investment to develop Africa and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals is on the rise, delegates at the recently concluded inaugural Africa Investmen…
The African Energy Chamber congratulates Angola on becoming the sixth African country to join the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), after Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea
The GECF (GECF.org) has been at the forefront of promoting the u…
With the recent launch of the GCX, Ghana joins the league of 12 other African Countries running a commodity exchange. Notable among these is the Ethiopian Commodities Exchange (ECX) which begun in 2008 and has quickly grown to be a model f…
Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta, in presenting the 2019 Budget Statement to Parliament, announced that the Government would spend more than one billion dollars to support the active industrialisation of the economy to engender growth.
H…
At AfricaCom, Orange presents its latest innovations to democratise access to smartphones, encourage e-education and support the startup ecosystem
Democratise access to digital
In the field of telephony as in many others, Africa has …
AirtelTigo, the country’s second-largest telecommunications operator is marking its historic one-year anniversary with a long-term strategy to pursue growth, innovation and transforming lives in communities.
This was in a statement from…
Government has said to simplify the collection of withholding tax for both small scale mining operators and tax authorities, the point of collection of the tax will be shifted to the point of export.
Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, the Minister of F…
The Institute of Directors Ghana (IoD) has rolled out a number of strategic initiatives to stimulate and sustain the culture of corporate governance in the country.
The move is part of efforts to address the decline in corporate governa…
This year EY marks 21 years of recognising and celebrating entrepreneurs who have consistently demonstrated excellence in their businesses
Since the first award in 1998, when Adrian Gore of Discovery was the inaugural winner, EY (www.EY…
The Ministry of Energy is to introduce tax free solutions for the promotion of Full Electrical Vehicles in order to promote a technology shift from fossil-fuel-based vehicles, which is a significant source for local air pollution.
Mr Ke…
The 20th China Hi-Tech Fair (CHTF 2018) is being held from November 14-18 at the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center with the theme “New Development Concept for High Quality Growth.” This year’s CHTF consists of exhibitions, forums, …
“Building a new Zimbabwe”, a flagship report launched by the African Development Bank to spark the country’s economic development
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has launched a flagship economic report on Zimbabwe, titled: “Building…
Mr Ken Ofori Atta, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, said the country’s economic transformation agenda continues to have the private sector at its core and government has in the past 22 months built the fundamental structures to s…
Africa is leveraging mobile and digital technologies in its own ways to bring financial services to people in some of the most isolated and undeveloped places on earth.
Africa is a great testing ground for new banking services: the reg…
The African Development Bank has launched the Africa Energy Portal (AEP) at the Africa Investment Forum in Johannesburg
“Building a Knowledge Base to De-Risk the Energy Sector in Africa,” brought together investors, policy makers and go…
The Trades Union (TUC) Congress has proposed a further reduction of electricity tariff by 15 per cent and a reduction in water tariff by 12 per cent.
This, the TUC said in a statement, copied to the Ghana News agency, would stimulate ec…
OccupyGhana has commended the Government on its directive to public service organisations to streamline the payments of sitting allowances to members of State Boards, Authorities and Councils.
However, it urged the Government to do more…
The Ghana Build International Trade exhibition Fair will take place from 19 to 21 November 2018 to champion the development needs of the ‘Built Environment in Ghana’ by bringing together international manufacturing companies and investors …
Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, the Minister of Finance has said that the public debt including the financial sector bailout costs at the end of September 2018, was 57.4 per cent of rebased Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
He said, excluding bailout co…
