MTN goes virtual to conduct executive meeting
MTN, Ghana’s leading Telecommunications Company, and Business World, Ghana’s foremost business magazine will host the digital edition of the MTN Business World Executive Breakfast...
GH₵600m stimulus package not for ‘chop chop’ – GUTA to members
Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) is urging its members to make judicious use of government’s GH¢600 million stimulus package for SMEs.Greater Accra Regional...
Bui Power Authority demolishes, burns shelter at Lapla community [photos]
Tension is mounting at Lapla, a community at Bongase in the Banda District of the Bono Region, after over a hundred residents were displaced. This...
Menzgold appoints Payboy to negotiate payments with customers
Defunct gold dealership firm, Menzgold, has appointed a third party to negotiate settlement with their unpaid customers.Playboy, a digital payment marketing and promotions company,...
Akufo-Addo launches GH¢1bn Coronavirus Alleviation Programme Business Support Scheme
President Nana Akufo-Addo on Tuesday launched the GH¢1 billion Coronavirus Alleviation Programme Business Support Scheme.This is a support being provided by the government and...
Covid-19: Prez launches GHS 600m cap business programme to support SMEs
President Akufo-Addo has formerly launched a GHS 600m Coronavirus Alleviation Programme (CAP) Fund to support micro, small and medium scale (MSME) enterprises.The initiative is...
Oil prices jump as lockdowns ease and supplies tighten
Oil prices climbed by more than $1 a barrel on Monday to their highest in more than a month, supported by continuing output cuts...
Coronavirus: 624 workers of Tema Fish Processing Factory test negative
About 624 workers of the Tema Fishing Processing Company, who came into contact with a coronavirus patient, have tested negative.This was after 695...
Govt makes payment to ECG for Covid-19 electricity relief package [audio]
The government has made some payments to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) following the electricity relief package announced by President Nana Akufo-Addo.“The government...
Blue Ocean Investment Ltd donates food items to Kpone Traditional Council
Blue Ocean Investments Ltd., has donated assorted food items to the Kpone Traditional Council.This is part of relief support to the needy and vulnerable...
BoG practicing intellectual dishonesty – Ato Forson
Former Deputy Finance Minister and Ranking Member of the Finance Committee of Parliament, Cassiel Ato Forson, has chided the Central Bank saying the supervisory...
Tullow Ghana’s Kweku Awotwi bows out as Al Monthiry takes over
Tullow Ghana has announced the retirement of its Managing Director (MD) and Executive Vice President of Tullow Oil plc, Kweku Awotwi.Mr Awotwi, who retires...
Akufo-Addo has added GH¢ 116 billion to debt stock, each Ghanaian owes GH¢ 7,836 – Ato Forson
Ranking Member of the Finance Committee in Parliament, Cassiel Ato Forson, has chastised President Nana Akufo-Addo for almost doubling Ghana’s public debt stock.The Deputy...
Uber ‘expected to lay off thousands of workers’
Uber is reportedly preparing to cut thousands more jobs in another wave of layoffs just weeks after 3,500 employees were laid off during a Zoom...
ICUMS readies to take-off after a successful simulation at the Tema Port
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), in collaboration with the Ghana Link Network Services Limited and the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, has successfully conducted...
ICUMS undergoes successful simulation at Tema Port
Ghana Link Network Services Limited, in collaboration with the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, has successfully conducted a...
Fishermen urged to practice social distancing at sea
The Ghana National Canoe Fishermen Council (GNCFC) has said practicing social distancing at sea is impossible.The composition of its work, it said, cannot permit...
MTN grows revenue by 11% amid coronavirus pandemic
Telecommunication giant, Mobile Telephone Network (MTN), has recorded positive service revenue by 11 per cent in the first quarter of 2020.The increase in the...
Govt meets with employers today over COVID-19 safety guidelines at workplace
Reports indicate that the government will today, May 14, 2020, be meeting with employers across the country to discuss effective adherence to safety and...
Single window: ICUMS is Ghana’s best bet – Ghana Link
Ghana Link Network Services, the company spearheading the deployment of theIntegrated Customs Management Systems (ICUMS), says the new electronic customsmanagement system is Ghana’s best...
Inflation rate for April hits 10.6%
The national year-on-year inflation rate for April 2020 hits 10.6%, which is 2.8 percentage points higher than last month, the Ghana Statistical Service has...
Twitter says staff can work from home forever
Twitter has told staff that they can work from home "forever" if they wish as the company looks towards the future after the coronavirus...
Covid-19: Drinking bars, hotels can now operate – Ghana Tourism Authority
The Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) has outlined guidelines to curb the possible spread of the coronavirus disease as the hospitality industry reopens.According to...
COVID-19 unemployment grant launched for citizens
South Africa’s government on Monday made available to citizens access to state grant for those rendered jobless due to the coronavirus.The government’s COVID-19 relief programme for...
Otimah Investment Ltd donates to Ghana Society for the Socially Disadvantaged
Management of Otimah Investments Limited have donated food items and cleaning materials worth GH¢10,000.00 to the Ghana Society for the Socially Disadvantaged.The donation made...
Coronavirus: Unions call for mass testing in Tema companies
The Ghana Federation of Labour (GFL) and the Tema District Council of Labour (TDCL) have called for mass Covid-19 testing in industries and companies...
Vice President launches Integrated ICT System for MASLOC
Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia today launched the Integrated Information and Communication Technology (ICT) System which automates all the operations of the Microfinance and Small...
Ghana CEO Summit postponed
Chief Executives Network Ghana has announced the postponement of the 5th Ghana Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Summit which was scheduled to take place in...
Hollard Life Assurance announces free COVID-19 insurance cover for customers
Life Insurance Company, Hollard Life Assurance, has announced a free COVID-19 insurance cover for its customers.The complimentary insurance cover, which comes at no additional...
Scam Alert: AngloGold Ashanti cautions against recruitment scams during Covid-19 period
The Management of AngloGold Ashanti Ghana Limited has cautioned the general public against the activities of scammers in the Covid-19 era.A statement by the...
26 market women arrested in Bolga [audio]
At least 26 market women in Bolgatanga in the Upper East region have been arrested by police for embarking on a demonstration.The women were...
First National Bank launches ASPIRE to fight against Covid-19 pandemic
First National Bank Ghana has launched ASPIRE (Accelerated Support for Pandemic Intervention and Relief Effort) to assist government and its stakeholders in mitigating the...
COCOBOD boss decries destruction of cocoa farms by illegal miners
In a rather unseemly turn of events, while on a tour within the week to inspect the progress of the ongoing Mass Pruning exercise,...
AirtelTigo partners Opera to offer free data to Ghanaians
Telecommunications operator, AirtelTigo via a press release, has announced its partnership with popular mobile web browser, Opera Mini.The partnership, according Ethel Anamoo, Chief Business...
Ghanaian lands appointment on Oversight Board of Facebook and Instagram
Afia Asantewaa Asare-Kyei, a human rights lawyer and Programme Manager at the Open Society Initiative for West Africa from Ghana, has been appointed as...
Adongo applauds IMF for ‘exposing’ govt’s massaged figures
Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga Central Constituency in the Upper East region, Isaac Adongo, has praised the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for affirming government’s...
Ghana, 3 other African countries blacklisted by EU over money-laundering
The European Union (UN) has added 12 countries to its money-laundering blacklist, putting their financial transactions under greater scrutiny.They include Botswana, Ghana, Mauritius and...
BIMA Ghana announces GH¢500,000 support, free telemedicine for customers
BIMA Ghana, the leading provider of mobile delivered insurance and telemedicine services in Ghana, announced today that a GH¢500,000.00 reserve was made available for...
Cedi falls by 1.18% to dollar, trades at GHS 5.93
The Ghana cedi has returned to the depreciation trajectory despite a strong performance in the first three-and-a-half months of this year.As of 6 May...
‘800,000 job losses recorded in hospitality sector’
About eight hundred thousand workers in the hospitality, leisure and tourism sectors are said to have lost their jobs.According to the Ghana Tourism Federation...