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Prices of goods will double if Benchmark values are reversed – GUTA warns

The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) is warning prices of goods will increase significantly if government reverses the reduction of values of selected...

Fuel prices go up by 2.8%

Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) have begun increasing fuel prices slightly at the pump stations. According to energy think tank, Institute for Energy Security, fuel prices...

Benchmark value scrap for 43 items takes effect tomorrow – GRA

Effective Tuesday, 4th January, 2022, the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) will begin the implementation of government’s policy directive on the...

GCB announces closure of three branches until further notice

The Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB) has announced the closure of its Dzorwulu, Tantra Hill and Takoradi harbour branches. Though reasons for the closure...

Santander: Bank hands out £130m in Christmas blunder

Tens of thousands of people awoke on Christmas morning to a surprise from an unexpected benefactor – Santander. The bank mistakenly deposited £130m into...

Fact check: An ex-CIA agent did not confess to infecting Bob Marley with fatal cancer

The claim is several years old, but a 2019 post to the Instagram page Submit Conspiracy Theories recently gained renewed attention. The page is a place for followers...

Togbe Afede XIV hits back at BoG over high interest rates

Togbe Afede XIV has described responses made by the Bank of Ghana (BoG) over his earlier submission on the Monetary Policy Rate as “misrepresentations...

MTN announces closure of service centers nationwide

MTN Ghana has announced that its Service Centres across the country will be closed for the Christmas holidays from December 29 to January 3,...

MTN Ghana gifts hampers to babies born on Christmas

MTN Ghana, through its foundation, on Sunday December 26 distributed hampers to mothers who have given birth during the Christmas period. The gesture from Ghana’s...

Ghana College of Pharmacists launches ‘GCP Journal’

The Ghana College of Pharmacists on Tuesday, December 21, 2021, launched the official journal for the college, GCP Journal. According to the College, the journal...

MTN Ghana Bright Conversations: Albert and Comfort Ocran share life nuggets

Rev Albert Ocran and his wife Comfort Ocran took the fourth edition of MTN Ghana’s Bright Conversations to another level by sharing nuggets of...

E-levy: Mobile Money Agents suspends strike action

The Mobile Money Agents Association of Ghana has suspended its intended strike action scheduled for Thursday, December 23. In a press statement signed by...

Govt urged to empower nurses

Senior lecturer at the University for Development Studies, Professor Ziblim Imoro, has urged government to support in empowering nurses' skills lab. According to him, government’s...

Bel-Aqua marks 10 years of manufacturing excellence as it pledges social sustainability

Bottled mineral water brand, Bel Aqua Mineral Water, has pledged 10 years of environmental, social, and economic sustainability as the company's guiding values for...

GITFiC evaluates AFCFTA

The Ghana International Trade and Finance Conference (GITFiC), an institution championing the evolution of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), has been carefully...

MoMo agents bare teeth at govt over E-levy

JoyNews/AdomNews · MoMo Agents Send Strong Message To Govt Over E - Levy The Mobile Money Agent Association of Ghana has vowed to resist the...

CILT announces new president-elect

Trustees of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT have announced Chief Teete Owusu-Nortey’s appointment as President-elect of the professional body. Chief Teete will...

Zenith Bank lights up head office ahead of Christmas

The Zenith Bank head office at Ridge in Accra is the center of attraction ahead of the Christmas festivities. The bank has transformed its edifice...

Facebook pays fines to Russia over banned content

Facebook has paid 17 million roubles ($229,643) in fines owed in Russia for failing to delete content Moscow deems illegal, the Interfax news agency reported...

Chamber of Patriotic Entrepreneurs holds youth summit

The Chamber of Patriotic Entrepreneurs has organised a maiden youth entrepreneurship summit at GIMPA. The theme for the summit was 'Entrepreneurship; Raising Business Leaders...

Mobile Money Agents to embark on massive e-levy demo

The Mobile Money Agents Association of Ghana (MMAG) is set to embark on a march in protest against the proposed 1.75% electronic transaction levy (E-Levy)...

BoG forwards suspected financial crime cases to EOCO for investigations

The Bank of Ghana has forwarded a number of suspected cases of financial crime to the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) for investigations. They...

Price of sachet, bottled water increased by 25%

The National Association of Sachet and Packaged Water Producers has confirmed an increase in the price of the products by 25%, citing high cost...

Fuel price to go down between 3% and 5% – IES

The Institute for Energy Security is projecting a 3% to 5% reduction in the price of fuel per litre at the pumps, despite the...

Price war as OMCs cut fuel prices

Consumers of petroleum products could be the biggest beneficiaries of fuel price reduction as leading Oil Marketing Firms (OMCs) slug it out by cutting...

Full Text: Bagbin speaks on Quorum, Deputy Speaker and 2022 Budget

Formal Statement by the Rt. Hon. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, Speaker of Parliament, on the rejection or rescission of the 2022 Budget Statement and...

Ghana spends $1bn on rice importation

Ghana spent an estimated ₵6.874 billion on the importation of rice from 2017 to 2020. In addition, the country also imported the following food...

SIC Insurance Plc announces payment of GH¢3m as dividend to its shareholders

SIC Insurance Plc, Ghana’s largest General insurer, has announced a dividend of 0.0153 per ordinary share, representing GH¢3million for the financial period ended December...

KGL Foundation wins Best Company in CSR

The KGL Foundation, the Corporate Social Responsibility initiative set up on behalf of the KGL Group, has been adjudged the best company in Excellence...

Top MTN MoMo agent for South East wins Hyundai Creta

Christmas came early for Isaac Bediako for emerging the best MTN MoMo agent for the South-Eastern part of Ghana. The Chief Executive Officer of IK...

Caveman CEO launches ‘The Inside Job’ to aid entrepreneurship

The Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the globally endorsed watch brand, Caveman Watches, Anthony Dzamefe, has launched his first book, 'The Inside Job' to...

KGL acquires first Otumfuo commemorative gold coins for ₵1m in support of Asanteman development

KGL Group has acquired the first-ever 24- carat Commemorative Gold Coins for GH₵1 million in support of the establishment of a cultural resource centre...

ICED receives $US1.56m grant for new research

The International Centre for Evaluation and Development (ICED) has received a US$1.56 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund its...

First batch of ‘Twa w’anum na kÉ” Spain’ promo winners rewarded

GB Foods Ghana, one of the leading FMCG companies in Ghana and manufacturers of Gino and Pomo range of products, has rewarded the first...

NLA releases over GHS5 million for payment of outstanding lotto wins

The National Lottery Authority (NLA) has disbursed over GHS5 million to all Partner Banks for payment of unpaid lotto wins, a statement from the...

BoG Governor speaks on Otumfuo’s commemorative gold coin

The Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr Ernest Addison, has explained that the outdoored gold coin in honour of Otumfuo Osei Tutu II...

Senyo Hosi proposes measures to stabilise fuel prices

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors, Senyo Hosi, has proposed some measures to be put in place to halt the...

Thanksgiving can change situations — Bishop James Saah

Presiding Bishop of Action Chapel International (ACI), Bishop James K. Saah, has charged Christians to make thanksgiving a ritual. He explained that, thanksgiving is like...

Commercial drivers strike: Chief of Staff called me to know what GOIL could do to help – CEO

Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GOIL Company Limited (GOIL), Kwame Osei Prempeh, has disclosed that he had a discussion with...

Govt should support indigenous businesses regardless of their political ties – Prof. Bokpin

An economist, Professor Godfred Bokpin, has called on the government to be intentional in supporting the growth of indigenous businesses irrespective of their political...