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GIHOC donates to Ga Mantse ahead of Homowo Festival

The nation’s premier distillery company, the Ghana Industrial Holding Corporation (GIHOC), led by its management, has made some donations to the Ga Mantse and...

SSNIT reacts to Auditor-General’s report

Management of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has reacted to a portion of Auditor-General's report on the Public Accounts of Ghana. It...

‘Three months grace period’ for tenants to vacate rented place is not in our laws – Rent Control PRO

There has been some form of confusion as to whether or not a landlord should grant a tenant grace period to vacate a premise...

GRIDCo gets new boss

The Board of the Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) has confirmed Ing. Ebenezer Essienyi, as the new Chief Executive of the company. This follows the...

MTN MoMo boss calls for stronger collaboration to enhance financial digitisation

Stakeholders in the telecom industry have been charged to ensure a tighter collaboration to enhance Ghana’s digitisation agenda. This move, according to Chief Executive Officer...

Lebanese arrested for operating illegal insurance firm

The National Insurance Commission (NIC), in a joint operation with the Ghana Police Service, has arrested a Lebanese, Gabriel Medawar, for operating an unlicensed...

SSNIT loses $11.79m from liquidations of three investments – Auditor-General’s Report

The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) registered a total loss of $11.79 million from the liquidations of three of its investments with...

1D1F: Akufo-Addo commissions $16m tomato processing factory at Domfete

President Nana Akufo-Addo on Tuesday commissioned the $16 million Weddi Africa Tomato Processing Factory, a company operating under the 1-District-1-Factory initiative, at Domfete, in...

Accra houses Cote d’Ivoire-Ghana Cocoa Initiative Headquarters

The governments of Ghana and Ivory Coast have signed the Headquarters Agreement for the Cote D’Ivoire-Ghana Cocoa Initiative Secretariat in Accra. This feat will see...

MTN launches 2021 MoMo Month

Telecommunications giant, MTN Ghana has launched the 2021 Mobile Money Month with a charge on Ghanaians to utilise digital payments platforms. The MoMo Month which...

Govt releases over GH¢260 million to fertiliser companies

The government, through the Ministry of Finance, has announced a release of over GH¢260 million for the payment of arrears owed fertiliser companies from...

Ghana’s debt: Check out how much each citizen owes

Ghana’s current public debt stock of GHȼ334 billion means each citizen owes GHȼ11,133. That is, if the provisional public debt stock was evenly distributed among...

Court dismisses Empire Builders case against Top Kings over Borteyman lands

The High Court at Adentan, presided over by Justice Fred Kwasi Awuah, has dismissed yet another writ filed by Empire Builders Limited, which sought...

WR Minister calls for Autonomy for Port of Takoradi

The Western Regional Minister, Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah, has called for the independence of the Port of Takoradi to enable it fix its rates and...

Int’l price increase, lack of raw materials collapsing cement industry – COCMAG

Ghana continues to grapple with increase in cement prices which, according to local cement manufacturers, is as a result of a continuous hike in...

ECG on warpath with GRIDCo; this is why…

There is growing anger between the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) and the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) over the former’s decision to invade ECG’s...

Lack of fuel at BOST depots renders tanker drivers jobless for months

The Ghana National Petroleum Tanker Drivers Union has appealed to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to intervene in the operations of the Bulk Oil...

Checkout the number of districts with IDIF in Ghana

JoyNews/AdomNews · Checkout the districts with IDIF in Ghana Some 134 districts in Ghana have factories under the government’s One District, One Factory (IDIF) initiative. Trade...

IDIF: Over 150, 000 jobs created – Alan Kyerematen reveals

JoyNews/AdomNews · IDIF: Over 150, 000 jobs created - Alan Kyerematen reveals Over 150 thousand jobs have been created by the government under the One...

Do not give out MoMo details to govt – Court to telecom firms

Ghana Telecommunications Company Limited and Stratcom (MTN Ghana Limited) and all other network service providers have been ordered by an Accra High Court (General...

Govt to create one million jobs through ‘YouBanC’

Government has announced a strategy to create job and business opportunities for one million Ghanaian youth by 2024, through programmes including the establishment of...

No new taxes – Ken Ofori-Atta assures

Unlike previous instances where his Ministry requested for a supplementary budget to run the affairs of the country, the Minister of Finance says the...

We are managing country’s finances well with discipline and competence – Ofori-Atta

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, says the government is managing the finances of the country with discipline and competence. Presenting the 2021 Mid-Year Budget in...

Full text: Mid-year Budget Review as presented by Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta

The Finance Minister, on behalf of the government, has presented the 2021 Mid-year Budget Review to Parliament, stressing that there won’t be new taxes. Below...

Inflation, FDI stable – Finance Minister

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, says the country’s transformation agenda to mitigate the dire effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the economy is still on...

COVID-19: More Ghanaians embracing e-commerce

We thought we were safe, or at least closer to safety when many people around the world received the covid-19 vaccines. Many of the...

Akufo-Addo re-appoints 1st Deputy Governor, Dr. Opoku-Afari for second term

President Akufo Addo has re-appointed First Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Maxwell Opoku-Afari for a second term. He is expected to serve...

Digital currency is the way to go in boosting economic growth – Bawumia

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia says it is time African governments embrace digital currency (bitcoin) to facilitate trade and enhance other productive sectors of...

VRA immortalises former chief executives [Photos]

The Minister of Energy, Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, has joined the Management of the Volta River Authority (VRA) to immortalise its past leaders by...

1D1F: Good news for private sector investors [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · 1D1F: Good news for private sector investors Government has pledged readiness to support any private sector investor who is ready to invest in...

Deputy Trade and Industry Minister speaks on 1D1F progress

The Deputy Trade and Industry Minister, Michael Okyere Baafi, has revealed the progress of work under the government's One District, One Factory (IDIF) initiative. According...

Africa, Women and E-commerce; a positive emerging trend on the continent

E-commerce is creating new opportunities for women in Africa. Beautiful as it may sound, this comes with many challenges. From gender inequalities to lack...

Bird flu outbreak: Poultry farmers await compensation

The Greater Accra Poultry Farmers Association is optimistic that the compensation to be given to farmers who lost their birds to the Highly Pathogenic...

BOST saves $24m in payments to BDCs

The management of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) has saved $20 million on claims it would have paid to eight...

Capital Bank trial adjourned to July 29

The Commercial Division of the Accra High Court has adjourned to July 29, 2021, the trial of the Founder of the defunct Capital Bank,...

Japan Motors adjudged Foreign Business of the Decade

Japan Motors Trading Company Limited (JMTC) has been honoured with the coveted Millennium Excellence Award as the Foreign Business of the decade. At the just-ended...

Shatta Wale to launch his own ride-hailing service, ‘Shaxi’

Dancehall musician, Shatta Wale, has taken to social media to announce his upcoming ride-hailing service dubbed Shaxi. According to the business-minded musician, 'Shaxi', which simply...

Las Palmas eatery shutdown over unsanitary conditions

Environmental Health Officers of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly have shut down the Las Palmas restaurant over sanitation breaches. This follows a visit to the Kwame...

GUTA threatens nationwide demonstration

The Ghana Union of Traders (GUTA) has descended on the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, for announcing that Nigerian traders will be exempted from...

IMF commends govt for COVID-19 response, stable cedi

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has commended the Ghanaian government for its proactive response to the COVID-19 pandemic which mitigated its economic impact but...