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COCOBOD announces closure of 2020 light crop cocoa season

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has announced that the 2020 Cocoa light crop season would end at the close of business on Thursday, September...

Ecobank enhances its digital offerings to Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Ecobank and iPay Solutions Ltd, a leading business management solutions enabler with support from the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) will introduce a...

We will not legalise ‘Okada’ business – Bawumia

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia says the Akufo-Addo administration will not legalise what he describes as “risky business” of commercial motorbike aka ‘Okada’ in...

Pension scheme for cocoa farmers to start in October

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Aidoo, has announced that all is set to implement the Cocoa Farmers Pension...

People’s Pension Trust launches iCARE Pension on Pension Awareness Day

People’s Pension Trust (PPT), an award-winning corporate trustee, has launched iCARE Pension, an innovative feature of the PPT Personal Pension Scheme in commemoration of...

Lands allocated for 2 major projects turned into maize farm

The people of Walewale in the Northern Region are demanding answers as to why lands allocated for a Watermelon Processing Factory and a 100-bed...

Freddies Corner opens new home appliances centre

Ghana's number one award-winning mobile phone retailer, Freddies Corner, has opened a new appliances Centre at tip-toe Lane in Accra. This new dimension of business...

Why Menzgold customers wont enjoy govt bailout – SEC explains

The Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) has rejected the Coalition of Aggrieved Customers of Menzgold Ghana’s (CACM) request to be included in government’s bailout...

Panbros Salt Industries disturbed over construction of a new cement factory near its concession

Panbros Salt Industries Ltd., the oldest and largest wholly Ghanaian owned salt company, produces quality salt for the whole country and the West African...

Akufo-Addo applauds Jospong as he pledges support for private sector

President Nana Akufo-Addo has pledged his government's support to Zoomlion Ghana Limited to provide waste management infrastructure towards a lasting solution to Ghana's waste...

4% reduction in CST takes effect September 15

The Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications has said the four per cent reduction in the Communication Service Tax (CST) by the government in the wake...

5-week-long clearing of vehicle through ICUMS false – Customs Commissioner

Assistant Commissioner of Customs, Emmanuel Ohene, has commented on claims that it takes a five-week window period for a single vehicle to be cleared...

ICUMS generates GH¢ 4.6 billion in revenue

The Integrated Customs Management System (ICUMS) is reported to have raked in some GHC 4.6 billion in revenue for the country. The amount generated as...

Ghana’s power abundance turns into burden as energy debts mount

Ghana lured investors to its power industry to end chronic electricity shortages with deals it can no longer afford. The deals’ terms require the government...

Defunct ‘DKM’ customers to receive their deposits by October

President Nana Akufo-Addo has given the assurance that government will pay back the deposits of all customers of the defunct DKM micro-finance company by...

Ghana and Côte D’Ivoire successfully increase pricing of cocoa

Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, the top world cocoa producers, through a joint initiative have convinced chocolate traders and makers to increase the price they...

MTN Ghana Foundation donates 3000 face masks to Greater Accra Regional hospital

MTN Ghana Foundation has donated 3,000 KN95 face masks to the Greater Accra Regional hospital . This forms part of its efforts to encourage the...

NLA teams up with police to arrest 4 lotto fraudsters in Volta Region

The National Lottery Authority (NLA) in collaboration with the Volta Regional Police Command has successfully arrested four lotto fraudsters there. Godwin Agbenyefia alias Demon, 19;...

GIFEC’s ‘No Hate Speech’ online campaign wins an international award

The No Hate Speech Online Campaign under the partnership of Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and...

Gold to end year at $1,700 per ounce

Gold is expected to end this year at an average price of $1,700 per ounce. This is based on the forecast of evolving supply and...

Graphic Communications owed millions of cedis by Parliament, MMDAs

The 2017 Auditor-General’s report has uncovered that institutions including the Parliament owe State-owned Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL) some millions of Ghana cedis in...

Two-decade-old CIMG bill gets presidential assent

President Akufo-Addo has approved and signed into law, the new Chartered Institute of Marketing Ghana (CIMG) Act. The presidential assent according to a press release...

Road Safety Authority confirms ‘Okada’ stakeholder engagement

JoyNews/AdomNews · Road Safety Authority confirms ‘Okada’ stakeholder engagement The National Road Safety Authority has confirmed the government’s claim that it has begun stakeholder consultations...

MTN Ghana invests over ¢100m in Covid-19 support activities

The CEO of MTN Ghana Selorm Adadevoh says the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has proven to be far reaching than was anticipated at...

Why $194,000 debt owed GPHA must be cancelled – Minister explains

Minister for Transport, Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, has pleaded with the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament to write off 165,000 Euros ($194,342.78) as bad...

Water supply to eastern part of Accra to be interrupted

The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) says water supply to the eastern part of Accra will be interrupted from September 14 to 20. In a...

BIMA secures $30m to drive mass adoption of digital health, insurtech solutions

BIMA has secured $30 million in further investment as demand for digital health services doubles. Covid-19 is the catalyst behind the surge, with consumers seeking...

Farm produce go waste in Pusiga District

Vegetables farms in the Pusiga District of the Upper East Region are perishing as roads linking the farms to market centres are washed away...

Akufo-Addo cuts sod for solid waste plant in Bono East

President Akufo-Addo has cut the sod for the construction of a solid waste treatment facility at Fiaso in the Techiman South Municipal of the...

NDC promises clinics in cocoa growing regions

JoyNews/AdomNews · NDC promises clinics in cocoa growing regions The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is promising to build well-equipped clinics in all cocoa growing...

StanChart marks Int Literacy Day with launch of a virtual reading project

As the world marks International Literacy Day, Standard Chartered Bank Ghana Limited has launched a virtual reading project under its Employee Volunteering programme that...

MTN to be “full digital operator” by 2023

MTN Ghana says it is sustaining investments in infrastructure and strategizing to become a “full digital operator” by 2023. MTN Ghana Chief Executive Officer, Mr...

First National Bank outdoors new package for SMEs

First National Bank Ghana, a subsidiary of the FirstRand Group of South Africa, has announced the introduction of a tailored package for small and...

Why Christians above 70 must not fear death – Pastor explains

General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor E.A. Adeboye, has stated that any Christian who is above 70 years old...

I’ll scrap law banning importation of salvaged vehicles – Mahama

Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has communicated his intention to scrap the ban on the importation of salvaged vehicles if the party...

BIMA wins mobile insurance leadership award

BIMA Ghana, the leading provider of mobile delivered insurance and telemedicine services, has scooped the prestigious Mobile Insurance Leadership Award for the third time running as...

‘NDC’s lie to IMF caused Ghana $36 million’

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has said the (NDC) administration under former President Jerry John Rawlings once lied to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), leading...

Let’s take advantage of opportunities in COVID-19 era – Entrepreneurs urged

The Chief Executive Officer of Party Tree Bakes says the Covid-19 pandemic has presented opportunities for companies and entrepreneurs to expand their businesses. Mrs. Thara...

Include us in bailout package – Menzgold customers to govt

The Coalition of Aggrieved Customers of Menzgold wants its members to be included in the bailout arrangement for collapsed fund management companies. They contend that...

Finance Minister details use of $500 million dollars from Agyapa Royalties listing

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has detailed the use of the $500 million to be generated from the listing of the controversial Agyapa Royalties Limited...