The Wa West District Assembly will distribute 600,000 cashew seedlings under the government’s flagship programme of Planting for Export and Rural Development (PERD) to farmers for cultivation.
Mr Edward Laabiiri Sabo, the Wa West Distri…
Madam Elizabeth Naa Afoley Quaye, the Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, has reiterated President Akufo-Addo’s commitment to upgrading the livelihoods and progress of fisher-folk.
She said the dedication was evident in …
Absa Bank Ghana has donated GH¢500,000 to the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR) to support the institute’s role in the fight against COVID-19.
Absa Bank said the gesture was to support Ghana’s main COVID-19 testing…
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has renewed his criticism of banking giant HSBC, accusing it of aiding China's "political repression" in Hong Kong.
He said he was "dismayed" that executives at Next Media, a pro-democracy media group, …
Gatwick airport says passenger numbers fell by 14.7 million, or two-thirds, in the first half of the year as air travel collapsed amid the pandemic.
The airport, which announced job losses earlier this week, also posted a £344m loss as …
Ghana will on Tuesday, September 1, 2020, open its air borders to international travel, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo announced Sunday.
Thus, the Kotoka International Airport (KIA), which was closed to international passenger ar…
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s signature shock-and-awe ‘Abenomics’ stimulus strategy was already faltering even before his decision on Friday to step down due to health reasons.
That blunt assessment by many Japa…
Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) have been urged to identify and find solutions to corruption challenges facing businesses amid COVID-19.
They must ensure transparency and accountability in their business practices and keep prope…
(Reuters) - Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N) has bought a 5% stake in each of Japan’s five biggest trading houses, together worth over $6 billion, marking a departure for Chairman Warren Buffett as he looks beyond the United States to diver…
The Ashanti Regional Office of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) has disbursed more loans to market women in the Suame Municipality.
A total of 200 women belonging to eight groups with 25 members each benefitted from the …
In November 1975, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes released a defining single entitled ‘Wake Up Everybody’. The song was written at a time of high unemployment, racial tensions, social and economic hardship, and environmental degradation. Fi…
The government has been urged to consider instituting policies to attract Ghanaian companies to list on the Ghana Stock Exchange.
The move according to Mr Ekow Afedzie, Managing Director, GSE would enable the companies to raise long-ter…
Dr Yaw Baah, the Secretary-General of Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC), has advocated the promotion of skills development for the youth as part of the future of work post-COVID-19.
"We must provide the youth greater access to skill dev…
The US retail giant Walmart has said it will team up with Microsoft to make a bid for the US operations of TikTok.
Walmart told the BBC it thought a deal with the Chinese video-sharing app would help it expand its operations.
TikTok …
Members of the Chevening Alumni Association of Ghana in the Upper East Region has schooled women Smock weavers at Paga in the Kassena-Nankana West District on the financial planning process.
The Association, which has a membership of ab…
MTN MoMo, in a bid to promote digital payments in the era of COVID-19, has launched the 'MoMo Pay & Win' promotion to reward customers.
The reward is for those who make payments for goods and services through MoMo Merchant IDs and QR co…
August 29 2020 was a Sensational Saturday, as Enterprise Life was once again recognized at the Ghana Insurance Awards 2020, held at the Kempinski Gold Coast City Hotel.
The event, which was its 3rd edition, saw in attendance Insurance…
New Zealand's communications security bureau has been called in to help after its stock exchange was hit by cyber attacks for the fourth consecutive day.
The exchange failed to open as planned on Friday due to so-called "distributed den…
The Ministry of Finance on Thursday said a recent article published anonymously on August 10 on the website Open Source Investigations (OSI) and carried on other local electronic and print media was a misrepresentation of the facts.
Th…
Cocoa production in Ghana is expected to increase with the completion of automated drip irrigation schemes.
The 28.3 hectares automated drip irrigation schemes were developed by the Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA).
T…
The Nigerian authorities have postponed the resumption of international passenger flights by a week.
The flights will now resume on 5 September instead of the previously announced date of 29 August.
Officials have said the delay was …
African Development Bank president, AFDB, Akinwumi Adesina, has been reelected.
Adesina, who returned unopposed, formally requested for a second term as AfDB president, saying he was “doing it with an acute sense of duty and commitment.…
Mr Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, the Minister of Trade and Industry, Thursday unveiled the Ghana Business Regulatory Reforms Portal to provide information on business related laws and regulations for prompt decision-making.
The Portal is an e…
Flights within China should fully recover by the start of next month according to a global travel data firm.
Air travel has been picking up gradually since the coronavirus grounded the majority of planes in February.
This month domes…
Gatwick Airport has revealed plans to cut a quarter of its workforce due to the impact of coronavirus.
About 600 jobs could be lost following an 80% reduction in the number of passengers.
The airport is running at about 20% its usual…
The UK was the hardest hit by Covid-19 among major economies from April to June, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has said.
Its economy suffered its biggest slump on record over the three-month period as corona…
TikTok chief executive Kevin Mayer has quit after just two months in the job ahead of an impending ban by US President Donald Trump.
The Chinese-owned firm has been accused of being a threat to US national security by the Trump administ…
The entrepreneurial dreams of innovative youths lies within reach under the Innovation Creativity and Entrepreneurship (ICE) module of MasterCard Foundation's Young Africa Works initiative.
The initiative, implemented by the National Bo…
The Savanna Agricultural Research Institute of the Council for Scientific Research Institute (CSIR-SARI), has launched a technical and entrepreneurial capacity building project for youth in maize cultivation to produce and market hybrid ma…
Government is considering the idea of setting up a Kente Craft Village to boost the production of the Ghanaian indigenous cloth for both local and international markets.
The proposal, put together by the Royal Kente Weavers and Sellers…
Engineering giant Rolls-Royce, which makes jet engines, has reported record losses after the coronavirus pandemic caused demand for air travel to slump.
The firm announced a pre-tax loss of £5.4bn for the first half of this year.
Chi…
The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Hon. Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh has charged the newly constituted governing board of the Volta Aluminium Company (VALCO), to drive an agenda that will set the company as the fulcrum of the full deve…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Wednesday said government would support the Cocoa Processing Company (CPC) to turn its losses and debts into profitability.
He said the company was strategic to the government's push for a value-add…
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) says the deposits of customers of the nine banks whose licences were revoked as a result of the financial sector cleanup, have been paid to them.
However, there Central bank said it was in the process of settling…
The 55th Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank opened in Abidjan on Wednesday with renewed commitment to economic resilience in Africa.
In his opening speech, the President of Côte d’Ivoire, Alassane Ouattara, highlighted the …
The Ghana National Canoe Fishermen Council in the Central Region has called on the government to take urgent steps to stop illegal transshipment, popularly known as Saiko.
That, the council said, was crucial to help protect the fishing …
The additions extend the bank's agency plus partners in Accra, making it possible for more people to access its products and services.
A statement from the bank said the new agency plus partners were in the St. Tito Clothing, Topmed Pha…
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Zonda Tec Ghana Limited, Mrs Yang Yang, has asked for a review of the Ghana Automotive Development Policy (GADP) to help create a competitive industrial hub for the automobile industry in West Africa.
…
Chinese financial technology group Ant has unveiled plans for a stock market debut that may raise a record $30bn (£23bn).
The company, affiliated with online retail giant Alibaba, says it will sell shares in Hong Kong and Shanghai.
T…
American Airlines has said it will cut 19,000 jobs in October when a government wage support scheme extended to airlines during the pandemic comes to an end.
The world's biggest airline said the cuts, on top of voluntary departures and …
The Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute (KNII) has called on African leaders to immediately abolish trade borders to ensure the free movement of goods and services across the continent.
The KNII noted that the continent could not achiev…
Electronic Waste Management in Ghana (E MAGIN), a project being implemented by the University of Cape Coast has organized a two-day training programme for selected Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs)
The training workshop …
Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia says the rationalisation of the banking sector by the government, has ensured that deposits of 4.6 million Ghanaians were saved.
He said the depositors would have completely lost their deposits just li…
A furnace explosion at the United Steel Company Limited on Monday, August 24 at the Freezone Enclave in Tema has injured nine persons and destroyed property belonging to MND Metals Company Limited.
The nine injured included; six Ghanai…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday said the government is keen on making Ghana a regional hub for financial services.
Thus, it is committed to supporting the country's financial market to enable it to contribute to that vi…
The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia says it makes more economic sense to put an airport in the Central Regional capital of Cape Coast just like the one in the Volta Regional capital of Ho.
He says he finds it mind-bugling that the r…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The euro rose on better-than-expected German business morale data on Tuesday while global equity markets gained, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq setting new closing highs, after a phone call cooled a recent flare-up in U.S…
The US and China have held talks over their so-called "phase-one" trade deal after the discussion was delayed earlier this month.
Both sides saw progress and are committed to the agreement, the US Trade Representative said.
Negotiati…
Facebook has agreed to pay the French government €106m (£95.7m) in back taxes to settle a dispute over revenues earned in the country.
The payment covers the last decade of its French operations from 2009.
The social networking giant…
The Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF) is racing to float shares of its special purpose vehicle (SPV) on the Ghana and the London stock exchanges before the end of the year.
The main subsidiary of the MIIF and holding company, Agyap…
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