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Economy worse than captured in 2017 budget but…- Ofori-Atta

The Finance Minister has said the updated figures received from the Ghana Statistical Service showed the economy was far worse than estimated in the...

Confidence in Ghana’s economy bouncing back – Ofori-Atta

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has said confidence in the Ghanaian economy is bouncing back following prudent policies being pursued by the Akufo-Addo government. According to...

NPA warns defaulters

In the wake of the petroleum-related fire accidents which have led to the loss of lives and valuables worth millions of Ghana cedis across...

3% VAT flat rate will not increase prices – GRA

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has clarified that the 3% VAT flat rate will not increase cost of goods imported into the country. The GRA...

Finance Minister presents mid-year budget review today

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta, will present his midyear Budget Review and Economic Planning to Parliament Monday, July 31, 2017. The presentation is in fulfilment...

Agric Minister denies blowing ¢20M on wrong armyworms chemicals

The Food and Agriculture Minister has denied reports in the media that the Ministry had blown a whopping ¢20 million on chemicals in dealing with the...

Fertilizer smuggling in Upper East is worrying – DCE

Zubieru Abduliah, the District Chief Executive (DCE) of the Pusiga District, has expressed concern at the increasing rate of fertilizer smuggling and urged dealers...

Gov’t gets GHS1.5bn from sale of 5-year bond

The government has successfully raised GHS1.49 billion through the sale of a five-year bond. The bond was oversubscribed by 12.86 per cent as bids totalled...

Cabinet Approves establishment of Electricity Market Oversight Panel

Ghana’s electricity sub-sector will soon have an oversight body regulating its activities, as envisaged in a Legislative Instrument passed by Parliament in 2008. Officials of...

Army worm: Agric Minister's victory comment doubtful – Joe Jackson

Economist, Joe Jackson, has said it was out of place for the Minister of Food and Agriculture Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto to have declared...

Farmers dispute Minister's claim that fall army worms have been defeated

The Northern Regional Focal Person for the Peasant Farmers Association, Marteen Alhassan, says though some gains have been made in the fight against the...

Moody's: BoG policy rate cut is credit positive for banks

The rating agency Moody’s says the 150 basis points policy rate cut by the Bank of Ghana last week is credit positive for the...

The perfect jobs for travel enthusiasts

Is travel your everyday dose? Then, you must know that some jobs have a restricting nature that would restrain you from actively living that...

Gold pushes June PPI to 3.6%

The Producer Price Index (PPI) which measures the average change over time in the prices received by domestic producers for the production of their...

Importers abandon business over high taxes

A significant number of importers in Ghana are abandoning their operations over the increasing number of taxes charged at the country’s ports coupled with...

Hot audio: Fall armyworms have been defeated – Agric Minister

The Agriculture Minister says government has eliminated the fall armyworm which ravaged over 112,000 hectares of farms across the country. Dr. Akoto Owusu Afriyie explained...

Gov’t advised to channel grants and loans to credit unions

Government has been advised to channel its resources, grants and loans through the credit union to achieve their objectives especially in terms of loans...

Local banks beg gov’t over single treasury

Indigenous banks in the country have indicated that even though they accept government’s moves to consolidate its accounts via the Treasury Single Account (TSA),...

Banking sector well capitalized – BoG

Even before it releases its July 2017 Banking Sector Report, the Bank of Ghana (BoG) says the banking sector remains sound, well capitalised and...

Hunger looms in Ghana

Ghana is most likely to suffer food shortage this year, due to the devastation caused by fall armyworms, leaving 18,219.07 hectares of maize farms...

Ghana’s trade surplus hits 1.4 billion dollars – BoG

New figures from the Bank of Ghana have shown that Ghana’s total balance of trade recorded a surplus of 1.429 billion dollars as at...

Google maps: Can you find a better travel assistant than this?

Destination: On route to Lingbinsi in North Gonja District of the Northern Region of Ghana. What for? Well, I will let you know in a...

GWCL’s e-billing system to cover all telcos by August

Beginning next month, customers of Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) can pay their water bills on all telecommunication network, as the company continues its...

Gov’t urged to channel support through credit unions

The government has been advised to channel its resources, grants and loans to Ghanaian businesses through credit unions to achieve their objectives. Volta Region Chairman...

Lack of education on ‘planting for food and jobs’ disturbing – Farmers

Some farmers in the country are demanding further consultations in determining the required procedures to participate in the planting for food and jobs initiative. The...

Nina Baksmaty: Building Koshie O

Its 2011 and Nina Baksmaty is sprawled across her bed in her New York apartment. Nine weeks pregnant, in the middle of a business...

Cabinet approves Fiscal Responsibility Law to cap fiscal deficit to 3-5% of GDP

Days after the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, hinted of Government’s desire to place a cap on Ghana’s fiscal deficit as a percentage of...

BoG reduces policy rate by 150 basis points

The Bank of Ghana has reduced its policy rate to 21 percent. The figure represents a 150 basis points reduction from the 22.5 percent. This...

Bank of Ghana reduces policy rate to 21 per cent

The Monetary Policy Committee has reduced the policy rate by 150 basis points to 21 per cent from 22.5 per cent, citing lower risk...

MTN deletes 3.4 million inactive lines from network

MTN Group has redefined who an active subscriber is and that has led to MTN Ghana deleting a whopping 3.4 million inactive lines from...

Oil producers debate how to cap rising Libyan, Nigerian output

Russia called on OPEC to limit oil output rises from its members Libya and Nigeria in the near future, as it hosted a meeting...

Banks’ interests on car loans drop to 31.1 % in June

The latest Annual Percentage Rates (APR) and Average Interest (AI) report by the Bank of Ghana shows that Unibank offers the highest rate on...

Five fun ways corporate workers can escape stress

There are those who work when they want and how they wish. They have no regular schedules and are not limited to certain timelines...

Oil prices remain steady at $49.68 per barrel

Oil prices held steady on Thursday, hanging on to gains made the previous session when falling U.S. crude inventories lifted the market, as analysts...

Cocoa farmers’ children assured of scholarship

Cocoa farmers have been assured to exercise restraint as they might no longer struggle to secure scholarships for their children in Senior High Schools...

Around Accra in 12 hours

Accra, the capital city of Ghana is the first and last place every tourist or business traveler will experience on entry and exit respectively....

Africa's major central banks embarking on policy easing

Africa's major central banks are entering an easing cycle as they try to stimulate growth after months of drought, austerity drives and confidence issues...

GRA, EOCO partner to combat financial crimes

The government has expressed its strong commitment to combating illicit financial flows arising from money laundering, bribery, corruption, tax evasion and other financial crimes. The...

Agric Ministry dispatches chemicals to combat Army worm in Upper West

Government, through the Ministry of Food and Agriculture(MOFA) has released over one thousand litres of chemicals to help fight fall armyworms in the Upper...

Jumia Travel launches a new feature to scale Facebook Messenger as a CS channel

Facebook Messenger is now fully integrated in Jumia Travel’s system as a powerful channel for Customer Service. The integration of customer service for Messenger...