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Judge threatens to revoke Ato Essien’s bail in ¢620m Capital Bank trial

An Accra High Court has expressed frustration with counsel for the Chief Executive of defunct Capital Bank, William Ato Essien’s attitude towards his ongoing...

Food prices to be ‘fairly stable’ in first quarter of 2022

Food prices will be “fairly stable” in the first quarter of 2022, commodity analyst, Esoko Ghana, has projected. The data collection institution said its assessment...

GRA suspends reversal of benchmark value indefinitely

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has announced the indefinite suspension of the benchmark reversal value discounts. The benchmark value, which is the amount taxable...

Petrol, diesel may sell at ¢7 per liter from January 16

Petrol and diesel may sell at ¢7 per liter each for the first time, beginning this weekend. This follows a projected 40 pesewas per litre...

Registrar General removes 2,788 firms from Companies Register

The Registrar- General’s Department (RGD) has announced the removal of 2,788 companies from its companies register. According to the Department, the affected companies failed...

Mobile network operators to publish list of SIM re-registration centres

Mobile Network Operators (MNO) in the country are expected to make public, a list of centres for the ongoing SIM card re-registration exercise. This...

Nestle recalls 24 batches of milk from the market

Nestle Ghana has recalled 24 batches of evaporated milk from the market following social media uproar after consumers discovered coagulated milk in their Ideal...

Cocoa Carriers calls off indefinite strike

‘Cocoa Carriers’ in Ghana have called off their indefinite strike, following almost a week of fighting for better working conditions. According to the workers, although...

Good news for those who receive salary of ¢365 and below

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has announced that employees who earn GH¢365 and below as monthly salary or GH¢4,380 as annual salary will not...

Cocoa Carriers strike: COCOBOD making alternative plans to avert shipment disruptions

The Ghana Cocoa Board has hinted at plans to ensure that cocoa shipment to other parts of the world is not affected by the...

Implement benchmark value discount policy in national interest – AGI to govt

The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) has urged the government to remain unwavering in its decision to implement the reversal of the benchmark value...

SIM registration: Group calls for extension of deadline

A group has called on the government to extend the deadline for the ongoing nationwide SIM card re-registration exercise. The group, Save Consumers Ghana (SACOG),...

GPRTU to deliberate on adjustment in transport fares today

The leadership of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) is expected to meet today to deliberate on transport fares in the wake of...

Gbese Mantse launches endowment fund for community

Gbese Mantse of the Ga State, Dr Nii Ayi-Bonte II, has launched an endowment fund to create jobs for the youth in the community. The...

Why reversal of ‘benchmark value’ is good – Kwabena Kokofu

Executive Director of Environmental Protection Agency, Henry Kwabena Kokofu, has refuted claims that the government not supporting the growth of import and export associations...

GUTA reacts to halt on reversal of benchmark value

The President of the Ghana Union of Traders Associations (GUTA), Dr Joseph Obeng, has revealed that “traders are overly excited and very happy” over...

Striking cocoa carriers send SOS message to COCOBOD

Cocoa carriers have vowed to resist any attempt by the management of the Ghana Cocoa Board and the Cocoa Marketing Company to use prisoners...

Concerned Drivers Association announces 40% increase in transport fares

The Concerned Drivers Association of Ghana (C-DAG) has announced a 40% increment in transport fares across the country from Monday, January 17, 2022. In a...

Cedi to end 2022 at ¢7.03 to a dollar

The Ghana cedi is expected to end 2022 at ¢7.03 to the US dollar, the Center for Economics, Finance and Inequality Studies of the...

Bui Power Authority completes construction of floating Solar PV system

The Bui Power Authority has completed the construction of an initial 1MWp of a proposed 5MWp floating Solar PV system on the Bui reservoir. The...

Akufo-Addo appoints Rosemary Beryl Archer as Deputy CEO of Ghana Exim Bank

President Nana Akufo-Addo has appointed Rosemary Beryl Archer as Deputy Chief Executive (CEO) of Ghana Exim Bank. The new Deputy Chief Executive in Charge...

AGI fired over inability to produce enough goods for local economy

The Trader’s Advocacy Group Ghana has chided the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) over the inability to produce enough goods for the local economy. On...

Sammy Gyamfi’s take on benchmark value reversal

National Communication Officer of the Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi, has called on the government to totally cancel the reversal of its Benchmark value...

Expect increased smuggling – Traders to govt over ‘benchmark value’ policy reversal

The government continues to face stiff opposition from traders over the reversal of the benchmark value. The latest to join the bandwagon is the Concerned...

Govt suspends Benchmark Values reversal until Jan 6

Government has suspended the benchmark review reversal until Thursday, January 6, 2022. A credible source at the Ghana Revenue Authority revealed to JoyNews, and checks...

MTN Ghana re-opens its service centres to customers

Mobile telecommunications giant, MTN Ghana has today announced the re-opening of its Service Centers across the country. The Ashaiman, Accra Mall, East Legon (Accra) and...

Cocoa carriers begin indefinite strike

Cocoa carriers from the various warehouses of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) have begun an indefinite strike to demand better service conditions and an...

COPEC predicts fuel price hike

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) has hinted that prices of petrol and diesel could go up by 3.7% and 2.5% respectively in the...

Association executives kick against reversal of benchmark value

Executive Director of Ghana Import and Export Association, Sampson Asaki Awingobin has said government's decision on the reversal of the reduction of values of...

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...