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Tullow executives pay working visit to Ghana

The Senior Leadership Team (SLT) of Tullow Oil Plc, led by the Chief Executive Officer, Rahul Dhir, has paid a working visit to Ghana. The...

BoG to gradually phase out ¢1 and ¢2 notes

The ¢1 and ¢2 notes will be phased out of circulation soon, as the Bank of Ghana (BoG) gradually plans to remove them from...

Cedi depreciates 1.7% to dollar in almost 9-months of 2021 – BoG

The Ghana cedi has depreciated by 1.7% to the US dollar in the first nine months which will end next Thursday September 30th, 2021,...

Accra train shuttle bounces back October

The Accra commercial railway system is set to bounce back to life by the end of next month, the Ghana Railway Company Limited (GRCL)...

China declares all crypto-currency transactions illegal

China's central bank has announced that all transactions of crypto-currencies are illegal, effectively banning digital tokens such as Bitcoin. "Virtual currency-related business activities are illegal...

Lithuania urges people to throw away Chinese phones

Consumers should throw away their Chinese phones and avoid buying new ones, Lithuania’s Defence Ministry has warned. A report by its National Cyber Security Centre...

What are NFTs and why are some worth millions?

A digital-only artwork has sold at Christie's auction house for an eye-watering $69m (£50m) - but the winning bidder will not receive a sculpture,...

Registrar General’s Department to remove 220 firms from Companies Register

The Registrar Generals Department has finalised the move to strike out about 220 institutions from the list of Company Register, beginning October 1, 2021. This...

This deplorable road leads to a GRA office at North Industrial Area Accra [Photos]

The road leading to the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) in Accra has got social media users wondering if it motivates citizens enough to go...

AYo Ghana enhances customer experience

AYo Intermediaries Ghana Limited, a leading microinsurance company, has increased its maximum premium from GH¢ 4 to GH¢ 6 to give more to its...

Treepz goes live to offer convenient mobility services

Ride-hailing firm, Treepz, has officially launched in the country in the bid to provide more convenience to commercial vehicle users (trotro) as well as...

Mobile Money contributed ¢250 million to govt’s tax revenue in 2020

Tax collection from Mobile Money operations amounted to ¢250 million last year, according to a report by the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications. At the same...

We will soon reach the Promised Land – Deputy Agric Minister tells farmers [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · We will soon reach the Promised Land – Deputy Agric Minister tells farmers Deputy Agric Minister, Yaw Frimpong, has urged farmers to remain...

Nigerian Traders call on Akufo-Addo to address threats against members by GUTA

The Nigeria Union of Traders Association, Ghana (NUTAG) has called on President Nana Akufo-Addo to address what it described as bizarre statements by the...

Jobs coming as GIADEC kick-starts $6bn aluminium projects for Integrated Aluminium Industry

Ghana’s economy yesterday received a big boost when the Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation (GIADEC) signed a strategic deal with RockSure International Limited, a...

Akufo-Addo opens first presidential business summit [Photos]

President Nana Akufo-Addo on Tuesday, September 14, 2021, opened the first-ever Presidential Business summit in Accra. The president, at the event, charged the private sector...

Govt lacks commitment in prosecuting NAM 1 – Aggrieved Menzgold Customers

Customers of defunct gold dealership firm, Menzgold, have, in a latest move, vowed to use all available avenues to retrieve their locked-up investments from...

Massive turnout at first mini-clinic of 2021 JoyNews Ecobank Habitat Fair [Photos]

The first mini-clinic of the 2021 JoyNews/ Ecobank Habitat Fair has been held at the Achimota Retail Centre. The second mini-clinic will be held...

Akufo-Addo commissions ¢6.07m Hohoe Technology Solution Centre

President Nana Akufo-Addo on Friday commissioned the Hohoe Technology Solution Centre, one of five new facilities being established by the Rural Enterprise Programme of...

Oswal Investment Limited wins Best Innovative Construction Company of the year award

OSWAL Investment Group Ltd, the first Ghanaian company constructing a flyover at Adjirigano, near East Legon, in Accra, has been adjudged the ‘Best Innovative...

McDan acquires private jet [Video]

The aviation wing of the McDan Group of Companies, McDan Aviation has acquired a private jet for its operations at Terminal 1 (T1) of...

China to provide Afghanistan with $31 million worth of food and Covid vaccines

China will provide almost $31 million worth of food, winter weather supplies, vaccines, and medicine to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, China's Foreign Ministry said Wednesday. Hua Chunyin, spokesperson...

1D1F: Akufo-Addo commissions ¢10m yam and cassava processing factory at Krachi East

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Thursday, commissioned CH Global Limited, a cassava and yam processing factory operating under government’s 1-District-1-Factory initiative, located at...

Growing your own marijuana is legalised in Italy

Italy is set to allow the small-scale cultivation of cannabis plants at home after a reform was approved by the Lower House's justice committee on...

‘Okada’ riders make passionate appeal to govt

Commercial Motor Riders Association, locally known as Okada, has appealed to the government to, as a matter of urgency, provide them with identification tags. According...

ZEN Petroleum opens three new service stations

ZEN Petroleum has announced the opening of three new service stations, bringing its total number of service stations to 35. Located at Korle-Gonno, Accra, Sekondi...

SOEs not performing is a thing of the past – Asamoah Boateng

Director General of the State Interests and Governance Authority (SIGA), Stephen Asamoah Boateng, says there has been a significant turn around of State owned...

Rice Millers Association calls for reversal of benchmark value reduction policy

Rice Millers Association of Ghana (RMAG) is calling for a reversal of the benchmark value reduction policy. This policy, they explained, enables Customs to...

Zoomlion wins big at National Business Honours Awards

Zoomlion Ghana Limited has been adjudged again as the Waste Management Company of the Year at the maiden edition of the National Business Honours...

Ghana achieves historic over 1.1m metric tonnes of cocoa beans

Ghana recorded more than 1.1 million metric tonnes of cocoa beans production in the 2020/21 crop season. This is about 45% increase over the 2019/2020...

1D1F: Akufo-Addo commissions $2.1m rubber processing plant

President Nana Akufo-Addo, on Friday, September 3, 2021 commissioned the Narubiz Rubber Factory, a company operating under government’s 1-District-1-Factory initiative, at Wassa Dompim, in...

GIADEC’s new Governing Board inaugurated

Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, on Thursday, September 2, 2021, inaugurated the new Governing Board of GIADEC. The Minister charged the...

Ghana is in crisis – Kwabena Duffuor

Former Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Dr Kwabena Duffuor, says the country is in crisis. According to the owner of defunct uniBank, the...

MTN Ghana boosts Girls In ICT Initiative with GH¢10m

Telecommunications giant, MTN Ghana, has supported the government's effort to raise awareness on empowering and encouraging girls to consider studies and careers in ICTs. It...

Allianz Life Ghana wins Best Growing Company of the Year

Allianz Life Insurance Ghana has been adjudged the Best Growing Company of the Year, after only three years of operating in Ghana at the...

103-year-old cocoa farmer first to enrol on the Cocoa Farmer Pension Scheme

A 103-year-old cocoa farmer, Opanyin Kwabena Nkrumah, is one of the first people to enrol on the Cocoa Farmer Pension Scheme, which is presently...

Agric Minister gives reasons for maize shortage

Food and Agriculture Minister, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, says maize production in the country dipped in 2020 to a drought spell. Drought spells are periods...

Fire guts portions of Agbogbloshie Yam Market

Fire on Thursday night gutted scores of wooden structures at the Konkomba Yam Market at Agbogbloshie, in the Greater Accra Region. The fire, which reportedly...

JoyNews launches Habitat Fair 2021 [Video+Photos]

The JoyNews Habitat Fair 2021 has been launched at Ecobank Ghana’s head office in Accra. The event, headlined by Ecobank Ghana PLC, was under the...

Agenda 111: Institute of Architects takes govt on

The Ghana Institute of Architects says government did not follow laid down procedures to award a design contract recently. The company was awarded the contract...