No definite decision has been taken to print additional units of currency for Ghana, Mr Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur, Governor of the Bank of Ghana said on Tuesday.
He explained that any decision to print new currency would be subjecte…
Dormaa Municipal Assembly has banned the practice in which cocoa beans produced in the municipality end up bearing the seal of other cocoa districts before entering the ports for export.
Mr. Vincent Oppong Asamoah, the Dormaa Municip…
The New Juaben Municipal Assembly is to build a permanent beads market near the Centre for National Culture in Koforidua with effect from next year.
The market is also expected to provide facilities for the sale of artefacts to help …
Social Watch, an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) on social development and gender discrimination has called on government to regulate activities of financial institutions in the country.
It said financial institut…
Dr Ernest Shonekan, Former Head of State of Nigeria, on Monday urged West African countries to collaborate and develop their human resource potential to offer them the advantages of the economies of scale and fair competition.
He sai…
The Abokobi Area Rural Bank, one of the pioneer rural banks in Ghana, is to blaze the trail of emerging as the first to initiate a merger in the country to enable it survive the growing competition and challenges pose by bigger banks.
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The Telecommunication sector's contribution to Ghana's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) currently estimated at almost 10 per cent more than tripled from 1.8 per cent to 6 per cent between 2000 and 2005, said Ms Efua Falconer, Acting Senior Man…
The Telecommunication sector's contribution to Ghana's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) currently estimated at almost 10 per cent more than tripled from 1.8 per cent to 6 per cent between 2000 and 2005, said Ms Efua Falconer, Acting Senior Man…
Mr. Prince Bagnaba Mba, President of Forum for National Equity, a civil society organization (CSO), on Monday called on ECOWAS member-countries to expedite action on the implementation of their aims and objectives to improve on movement of…
Management of the Metro Mass Transport (MMT) has launched "Operation Show Your Ticket" to ensure that all passengers pay the right fare for travelling on the buses.
Under the system passengers are expected to get their tickets before b…
The Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB) on Monday planted its 153 branch at Nima, a suburb of Accra and used the platform, to market the various products of the financial institution to residents of the sprawling business community.
The cere…
The Abokobi Area Rural Bank, one of the pioneer rural banks in Ghana, is to blaze the trail of emerging as the first to initiate a merger in the country to enable it survive the growing competition and challenges pose by bigger banks.
…
Municipal and District Assemblies in the Upper East Region are to buy surplus food from local farmers to store so that it would be sold back to them at moderate prices during the lean season.
Mr. Mark Woyongo, Upper East Regional Min…
The Telecommunication sector's contribution to Ghana's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) currently
estimated at almost 10 per cent more than tripled from 1.8 per cent to 6 per cent between 2000 and 2005, said Ms Efua Falconer, Acting Senior
…
Municipal and District Assemblies in the Upper East Region are to buy surplus food from local farmers to store so that it would be sold back to them at moderate prices during the lean season.
Mr. Mark Woyongo, Upper East Regional Mi…
Internal Generated Fund by the Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District Assembly increased from 82,946.47 in 2008 to 91,464.00 Ghana Cedis at the end of September 2009.
The District Chief Executive, Mrs Georgina Nkrumah Aboah, made this known …
The Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) would take delivery of 750,000 barrels of crude oil from Nigeria on Wednesday, October 7.
Dr Kwame Ampofo, Acting Managing Director (MD) of the Refinery who disclosed this to newsmen in Tema on Saturday, s…
The Abokobi Area Rural Bank, one of the pioneer rural banks in Ghana, is to blaze the trail of emerging as the first to initiate a merger in the country to enable it survive the growing competition and challenges pose by bigger banks.
…
Dr Kwabena Duffour, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning on Thursday said government was pursuing an aggressive and prudent financial policy to provide adequate micro- credit facilities to alleviate poverty.
He said the promotion…
Share prices of Anidaso Mutual Fund, (AMF) increased from GH¢0.1480 in 2007 to GH¢0.1999 in 2008.
This represented an increase of 35.07 per cent in share value as against the 32.7 per cent in 2007.
The net asset value of the F…
The need for banks to pay appreciable interest on deposits they take took centre stage at a public forum held on Friday to draw more people to the habit of savings.
Members of the public were not enthused about the negligible interes…
The Ghana Trades Union Congress on Friday said it would not entertain any delays on the part of Government in the implementation of the Single Spine Pay Structure in January, 2010.
It therefore called on Government to provide the n…
Mr. Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur assumed office on October 1 as the Governor of the Bank of Ghana, following his appointment by President John Evans Atta Mills, according to a statement from the Bank.
Mr Amissah-Arthur, an economist, c…
Management of Zain Ghana Limited on Friday presented cash prizes to winners in the final draw of the Zain "Live Your Dream Promotion".
The winner Mr John Kojo Hamlto Biney, a 49-year-old entrepreneur received a cheque for GH¢75,000 f…
Internal Generated Fund by the Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District Assembly increased from 82,946.47 in 2008 to 91,464.00 Ghana Cedis at the end of September 2009.
The District Chief Executive, Mrs Georgina Nkrumah Aboah, made this known …
Youth for Action Ghana (YAG), a pressure group, has called for a national debate on the decision to allow Newmont Ghana to destroy the Ajenua-Bepo Forest Reserve to bring out its costs and benefits.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Gove…
President John Evans Atta Mills, on Thursday reiterated the commitment of government to improve the cocoa sector as a means of achieving a better Ghana.
He said the government would support Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), to undertake p…
The Eastern Regional Director of the Ghana Metrological Agency, Mr Sylvester K. Xatse, has assured farmers in the area of better rainfall distribution this month.
He explained that often rainstorms experienced in the region during th…
Yam sellers at the Kumasi Central Market, have urged financial institutions in the country to reduce the interest rate on loans to encourage traders to access bank credit to expand their businesses.
The yam sellers were contributing to d…
Vodafone Ghana has launched a new range of tariffs that allow Vodafone prepaid landline customers to make free unlimited phone calls to all other Vodafone fixed landline numbers nationwide, according to a statement issued on Wednesday in A…
Mr Issifu Alhassan, an Assistant Divisional Officer of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), has called on metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies to firmly enforce their by-laws on fire.
The use of coal pot and gas, the ma…
Germany is to open a Trade and Industry Office in Ghana to improve economic partnership between the two countries.
Dr Marius Haas, German Ambassador to Ghana, disclosed this on Wednesday at the opening of a four-day German European B…
Workers in Accra have appealed to Mr Kofi Asamoah, Secretary-General of the Trades Union Congress, (TUC) to help halt the increasing levels of income tax, which was leading them to poverty.
They also appealed to the Internal Revenue…
The Saltpond Offshore Producing Company is to sink two new wells at a cost of 500 million dollars to increase production from the current 600 barrels to 2000 a day.
Currently, only one of the company's two wells is producing at full …
The Secretary-General of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Mr Kofi Asamoah, on Monday, appealed to stakeholders to speed up work on the long awaited single spine pay structure, to ensure that its implementation date of January 1, 2010, take…
The world is still in deep economic crisis despite signs of recovery in a few countries, Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma said Wednesday night.
"It is wrong to speak of the crisis in the past tense," Sharma said at the …
President John Evans Atta Mills, on Tuesday held a meeting with the Acting Chief Executive of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), Darius Mans and his executives in Washington to discuss issues relating to the Millennium Challenge A…
The Ministry of Trade and Industry, on Tuesday, organized a workshop to educate stakeholders on the advantages of Ghana's bilateral trading arrangements to Ghanaian exporters.
Addressing a stakeholders' meeting in Accra, Mr. Appiah D…
Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations
between West Africa and the European Union (EU) are in a limbo due to differences over market access, the regional grouping ECOWAS said on Tuesday.
ECOWAS Commissioner for Trade and …
Government is to set up a Growth Fund to manage oil revenue to ensure that the oil find makes a positive impact on Ghanaians and bring about a better standard of living.
President John Atta Mills said this when he met World Bank Presi…
The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations between West Africa and the European Union are in a limbo due to differences over market access, the regional grouping ECOWAS said on Tuesday.
ECOWAS Commissioner for Trade and I…
Mrs. Patricia Akpene Tegbe-Agbo, Secretary of the Accra Presbytery Women's Ministry of the Global Evangelical church has called on Ghanaians to remain focused on their chosen professions rather than try to be 'jack of all trades.'
Sh…
X-Pharm Consult, a health advocacy group in Kumasi, has called on the Ministry of Health to come out with its findings on the alleged swapping of drugs meant for the three northern regions of the country with fake ones.
It said even …
Mr. Kingsley Ofei-Nkansah, General Secretary of the General Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU) of the Trades Union Congress, has appealed to the government to support industries to manufacture equipment for agriculture in order to make farm…
The Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) would, by the end of next week, take delivery of the first consignment of 1.5 million barrels of crude oil from Nigeria.
Dr Kwame Ampofo, Acting Managing Director of the company, who disclosed this to…
Mr Henry Asante-Donkor, Chief Branding Officer of Fourth Protocol Ghana, a branding consultancy, on Wednesday said challenges facing companies required creative and practical solutions.
"Creatively building your business through bran…
A four-day workshop to engage MDAs to review status of implementation of the recommendations of the 2007 Annual Progress Report of the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS) Two and pro-poor budget allocations for 2010 budget opened in Ko…
The petroleum crisis will soon be over with the importation of 34,000 metric tonnes of petroleum products over the week-end, Dr Kobena Donkor, Deputy Minister of Energy, said in Accra on Monday.
Addressing a press conference, the D…
President John Evans Atta Mills, on an investment drive in the US said it was time Africans in the Diaspora invested their capital and expertise on the Continent to make it an economic power.
He said Ghana was the preferred investmen…
The Tamale Metropolis is facing fuel shortages as most of the petrol filling stations in the area had not received supplies, causing most motorists to park their cars and motorbikes.
Some of the fuel stations the GNA visited had on…
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