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Clearing agents responsible for high vehicle confiscation rate at ports

The head of auction unit of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has urged importers to blame clearing agents for the delay in the clearing...

Court dismisses injunction application by ECG workers to halt concession

An Accra High Court has dismissed an injunction application filed by some aggrieved workers of the Electricity of Ghana (ECG) seeking to put on...

Accra City Hotel is ‘Best in HR Management’

Accra City Hotel has won the Best Hotel HR Management in Hospitality at the 2017 Human Resource (HR) Focus Awards in Accra.The locally managed...

Accra City Hotel is the Best in HR Management

Accra City Hotel has won the Best Hotel HR Management in Hospitality at the 2017 Human Resource (HR) Focus Awards in Accra.The locally managed...

Gov’t to abolish 25% corporate tax on private Unis

The Vice President of Ghana, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has disclosed that government is working hard towards the abolishment of the 25% corporate tax on...

NCA Honours Lucy Quist, Ebenezer Asante

Vice President for Southern and East Africa and Ghana (SEAGHA) Region of MTN, Ebenezer Asante, and outgoing Chief Executive Officer of Airtel Ghana, Lucy...

No cash for free fertilisers – Dep. Agric Minister nominee

Government does not have the funds to distribute free fertiliser to over five million farmers nationwide, the Deputy Food and Agriculture nominee Kennedy Nyarko...

Opening of borders won’t undermine economy – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has given an assurance that the Open-Border Policy, adopted by the government since June 2017, will not undermine the...

Ghana Card to be primary ID for all services

Come November 20, 2017, the National Identification Authority (NIA) will start issuing instant smart National ID cards under a very strict multi-level verification process.The...

22 million mobile money accounts is attraction for fraudsters

Mobile money regulator, Bank of Ghana (BoG) has identified the overwhelming growth in mobile money wallets/accounts, over the last two years, as the main...

All clear for new national airline – Akufo-Addo

Government has given ‘policy approval’ for the establishment of a new national airline to drive the country’s bid to be the air transport hub...

Good corporate governance key to addressing growing NPLs – BoG

The Central Bank has said untrained staff in the banking sector and the high cost of borrowing are major causes of rising loan default.Non-performing...

Ghana loses millions through LESDEP

It was touted as the biggest youth-centered social intervention program in Ghana which was aimed at providing jobs for the Ghanaian youth through the...

Parliament questions “back door” 4G authorization for Busy Ghana

The Parliamentary Select Committee on Communications is questioning how Busy Ghana got a 4G authorization through the "back door" when other players paid millions...

Delta Capital opens in Tema

Delta Capital has officially launched its Tema branch in line the corporate vision of bringing its services to the doorstep of clients, and to...

Mastercard Foundation to hold 5th financial inclusion forum in Accra

The Mastercard Foundation is set to hold its fifth annual and largest Symposium on Financial Inclusion (SoFI) in Accra.The symposium, slated for November 7...

RigWorld Boss to receive African Young CEO Impact Award

The Chief Executive Officer of RigWorld International Service, Kofi Amoa-Abban, is expected to be honoured with the African Young CEO Impact Award at the...

Improved transport sector will grow Ghana’s domestic tourism

A white man or African American woman flies into Ghana, stays in a hotel and steps out occasionally in shorts, t-shirt and sunglasses with...

More than 700 businesses register with Petroleum Commission

Executive Director of African Centre for Energy policy (ACEP), Benjamin Boakye, has said more than 700 Ghanaian businesses have in the past 10 years...

Tigo-Airtel to launch new name Nov 10, as redundancy debate heats up

The new name for the merged Tigo and Airtel is will be put out officially on November 10, 2017, Adom News sources have revealed.Some...

GRA Boss refuses Vodafone’s application for 30% tax waiver

In a dramatic turn of events in the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and Vodafone Ghana tax dispute before court, the Acting Commissioner-General of the...

Staff of telcos accomplices in mobile money fraud – Police

The rate at which subscribers of mobile money are being defrauded by both criminals and some staff of telecom companies has reached alarming proportions.The...

Ayensu Starch factory begins production

Ghana's only starch producing company which was shutdown for maintenance has begun production.Managing Director of the company, Evans Kwame Ayim confirmed this to Adom...

Five hotel myths that you shouldn’t take seriously

In today’s world, a lie said so many times without any correction becomes the ‘’truth’’. In the same way, any myth that isn’t debunked...

Vodafone remits GH¢2.1b to parent company, owes 6yrs corporate income taxes – GRA

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) says between 2012 and 2016, Vodafone Ghana has remitted GH¢2.1 billion to its parent company outside, the Vodafone Group,...

Businesses to face sanction for non renewal of license

The Registrar General’s Department (RGD) has announced it will sanction companies that default in re-registering their businesses.The caution comes even though a deadline for...

No more ‘wahala’ in business registration – Bawumia

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has launched the automated business registration system, ‘e-Certificate’ and ‘e-Payment’ on the online portal of the Registrar General’s...

Ghana/Cote d’Ivoire move to address unfavourable cocoa pricing regime

Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire are working together to address the unfavourable global cocoa pricing regime to reduce the vulnerability of both nations to the...

Accra City Hotel adds Best City Hotel Award to collection

Accra City Hotel has been adjudged the Best City Hotel in Ghana at the 2017 Africa Tourism Awards hosted by the World Tourism Forum,...

E-commerce is immortal

Human as we are, we are born and we die. So do plants and animals. In fact, you may struggle to name any other...

All set for National Cyber Security Week

All is set for the National Cyber Security Week slated for 23rd – 27th October 2017.The date for the celebration is strategically selected to...

First batch of 1 village, 1 dam to begin in Dec

Some communities in the Northern Regions are expected to benefit from government’s One Village, One Dam programme when it commences in December.According to the...

Ashanti Gold’s Anumso project unveils multiple mineralised zones

Canadian company Ashanti Gold has identified new mineralised zones at its Anumso project in the Ashanti Region after completing a sampling programme.The soil sampling...

STC vs VIP clash not about competition, just land – GPRTU

The Ashanti Regional Security Council (REGSEC) is expected...

LPG distributors threaten strike

LPG distributors in the country may suspend their services soon.This is to protest government’s decision to implement the cylinder re-circulation module, which was proposed...

First batch of 1 Village, 1 Dam to begin in December

Some communities in the Northern Regions are expected to benefit from government’s One Village, One Dam programme when it commences in December.According to the...

We are optimistic about achieving economic targets – Oppong Nkrumah

The government is on the path to achieving an ambitious gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 6.3 per cent and reducing the fiscal deficit...

MTN wins 6 awards at 2017 HR Focus Awards

MTN Ghana has emerged winners of the HR Focus Conference and Awards 2017 by sweeping six awards.MTN won the Best HR Management in Telecommunication...

One-village, one-dam not for all communities in 3 Northern regions – Minister

A Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr Sagre Bambangi has clarified that government’s flagship programme, “One Village, One dam” does not necessarily mean...

Poultry farmers threaten to sell infested birds to public

A group calling itself the Concerned Poultry Farmers within the Greater Accra Region, has warned that their members may sell unwholesome chicken to the...