BoG collapses Dr Duffuor’s Unicredit Savings and Loans Limited, 22 others
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has revoked the licences of 23 insolvent savings and loans companies and finance house companies.The affected companies include...
GN Savings and Loans, 22 others closed down
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has revoked the licences of 23 insolvent savings and loans companies and finance house companies.The BoG has also appointed...
StanChart donates to Accra Rehabilitation Center
Staff of Standard Chartered last Friday
undertook a clean-up exercise at the Accra Rehabilitation Centre and also
donated assorted items for the upkeep of the students...
Video: All roads lead to Nungua Junction Mall for Adom TV’s ‘Wo Nsa Ano Adwuma’ runway show on Saturday
Adom TV's popular sewing contest, 'Wo Nsa Ano Adwuma', is set for a runway show on Saturday, August 17 at the Nungua Junction Mall...
Current PBC administration piling up debts – Former PBC executive
The former Deputy Managing Director in-charge of operations at Produce Buying Company (PBC), Nana Agyenim Boateng, has accused the current administration of piling up...
Cocoa farmers in Asante Akyem cry over poor roads
Cocoa farmers at Densereso and Adansi in the Asante Akyeam South Municipality of the Ashanti Region are appealing to government to, as a matter...
Hills Oil Marketing Company sets record straight over 2018 Auditor- General’s Report
A PRESS STATEMENT ON THE DEFAULT IN TAX PAYMENT PUBLISHED BY THE 2018 AUDITOR-GENERAL’S REPORT; ISSUED BY HILLS OIL MARKETING COMPANY LIMITEDHills Oil...
NPA engages with stakeholders on Cylinder Recirculation Model
The Cylinder Recirculation Model (CRM) stakeholder engagement, an initiative by the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), which took place in Bolgatanta in...
Audio: Auditor-General chases monies paid dead pensioners
The Auditor-General (AG) has recommended that an embargo be placed on the allowances of deceased pensioners.This follows the revelation that more than GH¢236, 000.00...
First Insurance pays GHC 150,000 to ‘Life Policy’ holder
First Insurance Company Limited has paid life
insurance claim of Gh¢ 150,272 to the family of a deceased client, Raphael
Boama Bonsu, in Kumasi.The amount, which...
Audio+Photo: What you may not know about eating new yam
The Feast of the New Yam is an occasion for giving thanks to God, and also to the gods and ancestors for a bumper...
GRA boss cries over politicisation of tax issues
The Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Mr. Emmanuel Kofi Nti, has expressed grave concern over the politicisation of tax...
Govt committed to entrepreneurial support in Ghana – Mohammed Awal
Minister for Business Development, Ibrahim Mohammed Awal, says the Akufo-Addo-led government is committed to developing and supporting entrepreneurs in Ghana to reduce unemployment.READ: Akufo-Addo...
Ministry of Business Dev’t to train 2, 000 head porters
About two thousand female head porters, popularly known as kayayei, will be trained by government.The move, according to the Minister of Business Development, Dr...
Ghana Manganese Company demands $20m VAT refund
The Ghana Manganese Company (GMC) is demanding $20 million in VAT refund due it from the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) between December 2018 and...
Karpower shut down wont affect power supply – GRIDCo
The Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) is assuring stable electricity supply as Independent Power producer, Karpower shuts down its 470 powership for 17 days.READ:...
51% PDS shares were given out without evaluation – PIAC Chair
The
Chairman of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) has
questioned the process that gave 51% majority shares of Power
Distribution Service to...
Karpowership Ghana shuts down for relocation
Karpowership Ghana Company Limited has announced that its 470MW Karadeniz Powership Osman Khan will be off the grid on Tuesday, August 13, 2019 in...
PDS saga: Donewell backs govt’s decision to investigate deal
One of the insurance companies at the centre of the botched Power Distribution Services (PDS) concession agreement, has welcomed government’s decision to investigate...
Coffin sellers cry over low sales; now offer them on credit
Coffin sellers in Accra are complaining about low sales in spite of perceived high death rate being recorded in the country.According to the Managing...
Audio: NPP boys sharing auction cars like groundnuts – Freight Forwarder
The Auditor-General is being asked not to blame officials of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) for the over 1,000 auctioned vehicles that the state...
Akufo-Addo breaks silence on PDS scandal
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says the government suspended the Power Distribution Services (PDS) agreement in the interest of the...
PDS takes charge of power retail as ‘interim ‘arrangement’
Power
Distribution Services (PDS) will still provide all activities related
to electricity retail as an interim arrangement, a statement has
revealed.The
joint statement by the...
AGI says government’s suspension of PDS agreement timely
The Association of
Ghana Industries says government’s suspension of the agreement between it and
Power Distribution Services (PDS) is timely, in order to secure national assets
and...
Youth in Afforestation protest over unpaid salaries
A coalition of Youth in Afforestation has served notice of a sit-down strike on Friday if the government failed to pay their salary arrears...
‘Chop Bar’ operators unhappy with ban on wildlife hunting
Operators of eateries in Accra popularly known as Chop Bars have expressed mixed feelings amidst the ban on wildlife hunting announced by...
We’ve done nothing illegal – PDS reacts to allegations
Power Distribution Services (PDS) says it has done nothing illegal in its transactions and is thus ready to fully cooperate with the government in...
GRA Customs Division collects GH¢373 million as revenue
The Ashanti Regional
Command, Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), realized a
total revenue of GH¢373.102 million as at June, 2019.Assistant Commissioner (AC) Frederick
Yankey,...
PDS fights back
The embattled power supply company, Power Distribution Services (PDS) Ghana Limited, has dismissed any foul play in its contract to distribute power in...
Takoradi port expansion takes off
Expansion works on the Takoradi Port have started with the construction of a multipurpose on-dock Atlantic Container Terminal.The project will see the port basin...
Ghana Manganese Company shut down over $300m loss of revenue
The Lands and Natural Resources Minister has ordered the shutdown of the Ghana Manganese Company Limited until further notice effective Monday, August 5.Kweku Asoma...
Investigate PDS contract thoroughly – US Embassy urges govt
The Embassy of the United States of America (USA) in Ghana has urged the government to conduct a thorough forensic audit into claims of...
The names behind PDS revealed and how they won the ECG concession agreement
There have been some speculations on the composition and credibility of the Ghanaian local consortium holding 51 per cent of the shares in the...
Planned shutdown of some ‘troubled’ Savings and Loans companies looming
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) would in coming weeks move in to “close down” some “troubled” Savings and loans companies that are facing “serious” financial...
PDS saga: Demonstrate to us that you are capable – ECG told
The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) believes the suspension of the Concession Agreement between the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and the Power...
Audio: PDS concession saga: Gov’t had good intentions – Energy Committee
The Chairman of the Mines and Energy Committee of Parliament, Emmanuel Akwasi-Gyamfi, has said government had good intentions when it entered into an...
Cyber security a priority to the govt – Ursula Owusu
Minister for Communications, Mrs Ursula Owusu- Ekuful, reiterating the Akufo-Addo-led administration's commitment to improve cyber security in Ghana, says it is a priority to...
Disclose full details of PDS contract to public – GII to govt (Audio)
The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) is pleading with the government to publish the concession agreement with Power Distribution Services (PDS).Though the government has announced...
(Audio): PDS contract must be terminated – Minority
The Minority in Parliament has called on the Akufo-Addo government to terminate the concession agreement with Power Distribution Services (PDS).The call by the Minority...
Probe into PDS breaches to end in 30 days – Minister
Government has announced that full scale investigations into the detected breaches in the concession agreement with Power Distribution Services (PDS) will be completed within...