Arrested Council of State Member granted bail
The Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) on Wednesday granted bail to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of defunct Ideal Finance Company, Nii Kotei...
Banks’ collapse: I am uncomfortable with how uniBank has been handled – Kweku Baako
Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper, Abdul Malik kweku Baako Junior, expressing concerns over the Central Bank’s decision to take over Ghana’s indigenous...
Jospong Group, Sophia Lissah wins top marketing awards
The
Jospong Group of Companies, a successful holding company operating in 14
sectors of the Ghanaian economy has been named the 2019 Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR) company...
Rigworld Solutions opens, no more importation of stud bolts, nuts and hydraulic hoses
Rigworld Limited has
opened an ultramodern manufacturing center in Takoradi, to produce high quality
stud bolts and nuts, as well as high and low pressure hydraulic...
Shopnaw, Ghana’s biggest online market set to be unvieled
The e-commerce industry has had its successes and challenges yet the industry continues to thrive because of the many benefits it delivers to users. Today, almost everything...
GUTA opens foreigners’ shops; gives them one-week ultimatum to pack out
The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) has begun opening locked up shops belonging to foreign retailers to enable them to completely pack off...
Ghana’s Deposit Insurance scheme long overdue – BoG
Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr Ernest Addison has said the absence of a deposit insurance scheme in the midst of bank failures...
Nigerian entrepreneur wins $250,000 Jack Ma’s African Netpreneur Prize
The maiden edition of the Africa Business Heroes Show in Ghana has seen a Nigerian medical distribution startup, Life Bank owned by Temie Giwa-Tubosun,...
Rigworld presents first-ever ambulance to Regional Maritime University Sick Bay
Rigworld Training Centre (RTC), an indigenous
Ghanaian company has presented an ambulance to the sick bay of the Regional
Maritime University (RMU).The ambulance, which is estimated...
1D1F: Pineapple juice from Ekumfi factory now on sale
Pineapple Juice from the Ekumfi Juice Factory under One District One factory is now on sale.The nicely packaged pineapple 'Eku Juice' can be compared...
Help customers recover monies from defunct banks – Catholic Bishops tell gov’t
The Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference has appealed to the
government to help customers of the defunct banks and savings and loans
companies recover their locked up...
Global debt surges to $250 trillion in 2019, led by US and China
Global debt hit a record high of over $250
trillion dollars in the first half of 2019, led by a surge in borrowings in the
United...
We are very satisfied with the 2020 budget – GUTA
President of Ghana Union of Traders (GUTA), Joseph Obeng, says GUTA is very satisfied with the government for including them in the 2020 budget.According...
You can come for tutorials on loan usage – Finance Minister tells NDC
Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, the Finance Minister says the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) can come for tutorials on what the incumbent government is using...
Audio: Finance Minister justifies incessant borrowing
"We won’t borrow if we don’t need it." This was a response by Finance Minister to the Minority on incessant borrowing.READ: Listen: Govt’s seed...
Audio: Ken Ofori-Atta disagrees with Ursula Owusu on taxing ‘Momo’
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta is not considering taxing revenue secured from Mobile Money transactions.This is because he considers mobile money as a sector that...
Cedi depreciation is a disguised blessing
For some time now, our airwaves, print and even social media seem to have had a respite on the issue of cedi depreciation...
Enough of the agric modules, consolidate existing ones – Researcher advises Minister
A senior lecturer and Research Fellow of the Kumasi Technical University’s (KTU) Institute of Research, Innovation and Development (IRID), Dr Smart Sarpong, has...
Listen: Govt’s 2020 revenue target not achievable – Tax expert
A tax expert has contested government’s ability to
achieve its revenue target for 2020 as captured in the 2020 budget presented to
Parliament on Wednesday.Although Kwaku...
Communications Minister wants profits from ‘momo’ transactions taxed
The Communications Minister, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, is pushing for mobile network operators to be taxed for the profit they make on mobile money transactions.At a...
Full document: 2020 Budget and Economic Policy of gov’t
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, presented the Akufo-Addo-led government’s budget statement and economic policy for 2020.The Finance Minister increased 2020 revenue target to GHS67.1 billion,...
Ato Forson laughs off govt’s claim of putting GHC12.2bn in Ghanaians’ pockets
Minority spokesperson on Finance, Cassiel Ato Forson has ridiculed the government's claim that it has put GH¢12.2 billion in the pockets of Ghanaians.Speaking to...
Inflation rate for October inches up to 7.7%
The
year-on-year inflation rate for October, 2019 has hit 7.7 percent up by
0.1 percentage point from the 7.6 percent recorded in September 2019....
Tax expert urges govt to implement new tax regimes
Tax expert and Senior Associate at Ali-Nakyea and Associates, William Kofi Owusu Demitia, has urged the government to come up with new compliance rules...
‘Collapsed banks’ bailout cash bigger than $2 billion Sinohydro deal’
The Chief Operating Officer of Dalex Finance, Joe Jackson, has questioned government’s inability to retrieve monies from persons responsible for the collapse of local...
‘No additional tax in 2020 Budget’
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has said there will be no additional tax in the 2020 budget.According to him, the 2020 budget is designed to address...
Govt spent $11.7b to embark on banking sector clean-up – Finance Minister
Ken Ofori-Atta, the Finance Minister, has disclosed during the presentation of the 2020 budget to Parliament that, the government spent about $11.7 billion to...
Banking sector: Saving depositors, investors has been costly – Finance Minister
The intervention by the government to save depositors and investors whose funds were locked up with failed financial institutions has been very costly. This...
Economic growth not driven by oil – Finance Minister says
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, in his 2020 budget presentation to Parliament, said Ghana’s economic growth is not primarily driven by oil, but the economy's...
A look at Ghana’s 2019 fiscal performance captured in 2020 Budget
The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has said provisional fiscal data present indicates that government’s fiscal operation of the first nine months of 2019 shows...
Govt committed to safeguarding macroeconomic gains– Ken Ofori-Atta
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, in his 2020 budget presentation, has assured Ghanaians of government’s commitment to strict fiscal discipline and pledged to maintain the...
Finance Minister lists key achievements of Akufo-Addo
Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, says President Nana Akufo-Addo has worked hard to deliver substantial achievements.Delivering the 2020 Budget statement in Parliament on Wednesday,...
Finance Minister announces juicy package for 1.2 million farmers
The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has revealed that the government will continue to supply organic and inorganic fertilisers and seeds to about 1.2 million farmers in Ghana.ALSO READ: Video: Minority taunts Finance Minister over ‘Bye Bye’ budgetHe said...
Ghana’s economy has seen a miraculous turn-around – Ken Ofori-Atta
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta says Ghana’s economy has been fixed after the government inherited a very bad economy from the erstwhile John Dramani Mahama...
Infographics: Highlights of 2020 budget statement
The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has presented before Parliament the 2020 budget statement and economic policies set to drive Ghana's economy in the coming...
Audio: Seth Terkper reacts to ‘no new taxes’ in 2020 budget
Former Finance Minister, Seth Terkper, has laughed
off government’s announcement that, it will not introduce new taxes in this
year’s budget.According to Mr Terkper, the government,...
Finance Minister presents 2020 budget
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, is scheduled to present the Akufo-Addo government’s fourth Budget and Economic Policy in Parliament.Wednesday’s presentation, according to the Finance Ministry, will...
SEC to begin investment validation processes on Nov 18
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced it
will begin accepting relevant documents for validation of investments claims against
the 53 Fund Management Companies on...
Banking cleanup: Go beyond talk; pay customers – Mahama to gov’t
The flagbearer of NDC has urged the government to speed up the process leading to the refund of monies belonging to persons whose funds...
Video: EOCO, CID to pursue 21 fund managers – SEC
Deputy Director of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has told JoyNews that security operatives are pursuing some 21 fund managers who are believed to have escaped...