Kwame A Plus speaks on E-levy
Musician and political activist, Kwame A Plus, has taken to his social media to address his followers after Parliament approved the controversial Electronic Transactions...
Celebs react to approval of E-Levy bill
On Tuesday, March 29, Parliament approved the controversial E-Levy Bill.The Bill was adopted at a reduced rate of 1.5% from the initial 1.75% amid...
KGL Group’s Alex Dadey awarded overall best entrepreneur of the decade
Executive Chairman of the KGL Group and Board Chairman of Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), Alex Dadey, has been adjudged the Overall Best Entrepreneur...
E-levy: Checkout transactions to be affected and exempted
Parliament is now waiting on President Akufo-Addo to give his assent to the Electronic Transfer Levy (E-Levy) Bill.A Majority-sided House approved the E-Levy after...
COCOBOD partners academy of arts and sciences to boost cocoa consumption
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) and the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS) have joined forces to conduct extensive research into the use of...
Sachet and Packaged Water Producers announce price increment
The National Association of Sachet and Packaged Water Producers (NASPAWAP) has announced price increment for bottled and sachet water effective April 1, 2022.The move,...
‘Insurance Pays’, an insurance industry campaign to educate people about insurance claims
The Insurance Awareness Coordinators Group (IACG), on Monday, launched a first-of-its-kind claims testimonial campaign, which seeks to grow insurance adoption in Ghana by building...
Fuel prices to be reduced by ¢1 from April 1
The Ghana Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors (COBD) has forecasted an up to ¢1 per litre reduction in the price of petrol and diesel...
SSNIT to introduce informal sector pension fund
The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) is set to introduce Informal Sector Pension Fund to cater and provide social protection to workers...
Checkout how much Ghana has earned since it started producing oil
Economist and political risk analyst, Dr Theophilus Acheampong, has disclosed that since Ghana started producing oil in 2011 till date, the country has been able...
Govt announces reduction in fuel prices
The government has announced 15 pesewas per litre reduction in margins in petroleum prices at the pumps.By this, the prices of petrol will be...
Cedi records 1.20% appreciation to dollar
The cedi appears to be responding to the increment in the Policy Rate by 2.5 percentage points to 17% and other actions taken by...
Fuel prices may reduce if cedi appreciates against the dollar – Analyst
JoyNews/AdomNews · Theo Acheampong on fuel hikeEconomist and Political Risk Analyst, Dr Theo Acheampong, has projected that the price of fuel at the pumps...
MTN Ghana honours winners of 25th Anniversary Bright Media Awards
MTN Ghana has presented prizes to winners of its 25th Anniversary Bright Media Awards Competition which was organised for journalists in Ghana to write...
BoG’s policy rate increment is disappointing and callous – Economic stakeholders
Economic and Trading stakeholders in Ghana have described as disappointing and callous the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Ghana's (BoG) increment...
We are together, we want a win-win – Ghana Upstream Petroleum Chamber CEO tells stakeholders
The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Upstream Petroleum Chamber, David Ampofo has spoken about the industry’s three main concerns in a world quickly...
Mobile Money Transaction hits ¢76.2bn in January 2022
Mobile Money transaction in the first month (January) of 2022 stood at ¢76.2 billion, the Bank of Ghana has revealed in its Summary of...
Ghana to begin manufacturing of electric vehicles from 2023
Ghana will witness the manufacture of its own electric cars from start to finish from January 2023.This is a boost for the quest by...
Cedi depreciates 14.5% to dollar so far in 2022 – BoG
The Ghana cedi has so far in 2022 depreciated by about 14.6% to the US dollar, the Bank of Ghana has disclosed.This is against...
Adopt 4 of our key proposals – IEA to gov’t
The Institute of Economic Affairs is urging government not to go the International Monetary Fund for financial and economic support if it can adopt...
Some commercial drivers in Kumasi buy fuel on credit
Some commercial drivers in the Ashanti Regional capital, Kumasi, are being compelled to buy fuel on credit, following the rise in fuel prices, which...
eCedi will meet very high security requirements – BoG
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has re-emphasised that its digital currency – the eCedi will meet very high security requirements.As a result, currency issuance...
Fair-minded citizens who spoke up during Mahama’s regime must speak now – Franklin Cudjoe
The founding President and Chief Executive Officer of the IMANI Centre for Policy and Education, Mr. Franklin Cudjoe, has urged Ghanaians who criticised the...
Report tax defaulting social media businesses and be rewarded – GRA
Assistant Commissioner at the Large Taxpayer Office of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has urged Ghanaians to report any business owner who operates on...
GPRTU set to increase transport fares again as fuel prices surge
The Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) has announced that commuters should expect an increment in transport fares.According to the Head of the Union’s...
How betPawa BIG winner Abdulai is helping those less fortunate
betPawa BIG winner Abdulai had already dedicated around half of his winnings to those less fortunate when he was awarded an extra GH¢45,000.The Northern...
Ghanaians not benefiting enough from oil, mining – PIAC
The Public Interest Accountability Committee (PIAC) has disclosed Ghanaians are not benefiting sufficiently from the extraction of fuel and oil.Speaking with Parker Wilson on...
Fuel prices to hit ¢11 per litre from March 16
Prices of petroleum products will from Wednesday, March 16 experience a significant surge as consumers are expected to pay ¢11 per litre.The Bulk Oil...
GUTA cries over cedi depreciation
The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) has asked government to implement a comprehensive plan in order to stablise the country’s depreciating currency.According to...
Govt to make Ghana a vehicle manufacturing hub – Trade Ministry
Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry, Michael Okyere Baafi, has clarified that government's decision to marginally increase the import duty on vehicle is part...
Fuel prices expected to go up again from Wednesday
Prices of petroleum products are expected to shoot up by at least 5 percent from Wednesday, March 16, 2022, the Institute for Energy Security...
CIMG releases results of Ghana’s maiden professional marketing qualification examinations
The Chartered Institute of Marketing, Ghana (CIMG), last Thursday, officially announced results of the Institute’s maiden professional marketing qualification (PMQ) examinations, which was held...
BoG cautions bank customers about unsolicited calls, SMS, emails
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) is cautioning consumers to be wary of calls, SMS or emails purported to be coming from their respective banks.According...
Algeria President bans export of foodstuff
Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has banned the export of foodstuffs that the country imports, the state news agency has said.The commodities include sugar, oil,...
Cedi depreciation slows down; declines 14.44% in value to dollar
The rate of depreciation of the Ghana cedi has slowed down, as the local currency went down by a little above 0.20% to the...
Fire ravages scrap yard at Kasoa [Photos]
Over 100 tonnes of scraps worth Ghc 250,000 have been burnt to ashes at Kasoa in the Awutu Senya East Municipality of the Central...
Arla Foods launch ‘Dano hyɛ me ma Dairy Creamer’
Arla Foods, producer and distributor of Dano Milk, has outdoored Dano “Hyɛ Me Ma” Dairy Creamer, a new product in their product portfolio that...
Full text: Kwesi Botchwey lecture on State of the Nation’s economy and politics
Former Finance Minister, Prof Kwesi Botchwey, spoke at an Independence Day Lecture in Accra on Monday, March 7, 2022.The maiden lecture was on the...
Freedom Coin owner sends important message to BoG
Real estate developer and businessman, Nana Kwame Bediako, has called on the Central Bank to prioritise the woes of Ghana’s falling currency above upcoming...
Bird flu: Govt releases GH¢20.1m to compensate farmers
The government has released GH¢20.1 million to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) to pay compensation to farmers whose birds were affected by...