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…
Rice farmers in the Volta, Upper East and Northern regions are groaning under a glut in the rice market. While some of the farmers were unable to find market for their produce, others were selling at give-away prices.
The development ha…
House price growth picked up in February, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Across the UK, prices rose by 5.8% in the year to February, up from 5.3% in January, it said.
More recent figures from the Nationwide an…
Africa’s largest Aviation Group, Ethiopian Airlines, will inaugurate three more wide body hangars during the International Civil Aviation Organization Symposium which Ethiopia is hosting from 11-13 April, 2017.
A statement issued in Acc…
Despite international efforts to address food insecurity, around 108 million people in the world were severely food insecure in 2016. This shows a dramatic increase compared with the 80 million in 2015, the Global Report on Food Crises 20…
The government is working to settle its indebtedness to the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori Atta has said.
Government owes SSNIT about GHc600 million as the result of its inabil…
The shareholders of the pan-African financial institution, the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc applauded the Board, Management and Staff at the 55th Annual General Meeting of the Bank, held in Lagos on Friday April, 7, for a their sterlin…
Three challenges –covert subsidies, indebtedness to banks and low margins – continue to hamper the operations of companies in the downstream petroleum sector, forcing almost a quarter of licensed fuel retailers and wholesalers to become id…
The government has released GH¢465 million for the commencement of the one-district-one-factory project. It has also released GH¢256 million for the revamping of 100 private commercially viable and distressed companies throughout the count…
Ghana has been ranked the fourth best place to invest in Africa by RMB Global Markets Research. Ghana beat countries such as Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Cote d’ Ivoire and Algeria as it is placed among the top 10 countries on the continent.
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The 2nd Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Diploma and Practitioner training courses are set to come off between April 29 and May 10, 2017 in Accra.
After a successful maiden programme which took place in January, the organiser, Amazing…
The FTSE 250 has set a new record closing high following strong performances from commodities stocks.
The mid-cap index rose 34.9 points, or 0.2%, to 19,264.6 with Tullow Oil the biggest gainer, up 5.7%.
The blue-chip FTSE 100 index …
Loan defauls associated with the management of the Credit Unions by some customers is the major bane to the financial growth of the unions.
Mr Wisdom Yaw Badjessah, newly elected Board Chairman of the Agona District Workers Co-operativ…
The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications, Kwaku Sakyi-Addo is to leave his post of six years to assume his new role as Chairman of the Board of the National Communications Authority (NCA).
Sakyi-Addo who ha…
Hordes of illegal gold miners, who invaded forest reserves in the Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai District are increasingly abandoning their operations.
Mr. Baafa Adams, the District Manager of the Forest Service Division (FSD) of the Forestry …
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has suspended the licence of EM Capital Partners Limited, an investment advisor, for breaching some provisions in the Securities Industry Act, 2016 (Act 929).
A statement signed by the Acting…
Ghana’s maritime import trade for 2016 hit 12.05 million metric tonnes whilst the volume of export trade was 5.55 million metric tonnes, the Ghana Shippers Authority (GSA) revealed on Monday.
The 2016 statistics affirms that the countr…
Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen has said the central bank no longer needs to give the US economy some "oomph".
The Fed has only raised interest rates three times in the last decade - most recently in March - in a bid to encourage eco…
Trade Related Assistance and Quality Enabling (TRAQUE) project beneficiaries have given thumbs up for the positive contribution of the programme in enhancing their capacity.
They have therefore appealed to the Ministry of Trade and In…
The shale oil boom has transformed the U.S. and global energy sector to such an extent that it has upended traditional supply dynamics and made forecasts far more polarized.
Investment banks, many of which finance new projects, along wi…
Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) said it is spending $1.33 billion in its Kentucky plant as part of a plan to invest $10 billion in the United States over the next five years.
The investment in the plant, Toyota's largest, …
The first rail freight service from the UK to China has departed on its 17-day, 7,500-mile journey.
British goods including soft drinks, vitamins and baby products are in the 30 containers carried by the train, which will be a regular s…