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Covid-19 pandemic reduces patronage of dog meat in Builsa North District

The coronavirus pandemic is not only affecting multinational and national businesses worldwide but also the patronage of dog meat. The meat is a delicacy at...

No salvaged car importation into Ghana from November 1

The law banning the importation of salvaged vehicles into Ghana comes. into effect on November 1, 2020. Shipping agents, Importers and freight forwarders were therefore...

Covid-19 should make you an innovative entrepreneur – Itrade Commercial CEO

The outbreak of coronavirus pandemic has driven many businesses to the brim. However, other businesses have managed to salvage the situation and continue their operations...

Police nab 2 TV station managers for promoting swindlers

The Cyber Crime Unit of the Ghana Police Service has arrested the general managers of Accra-based free-to-air (FTA) television stations, AB TV and Amen...

ECG explains how lifeline consumers will enjoy free electricity up to January 2021

The Electricity of Ghana (ECG), following President Nana Akufo-Addo’s announcement to absorb 100% electricity bills for lifeline residential customers (customers who consume between 0-50kVVh)...

GCB Bank announces huge profit at 26th Annual General Meeting

GCB Bank recorded significant growth in profit before tax of ¢573.67 million from ¢450.17 million in 2018. This is a growth in profit by 27.4...

Checkout prices for State Housing Company’s affordable houses

Ghana's State Housing Company (SHC), says it has made great strides in providing affordable housing for all Ghanaians across the country.  The housing units according...

KGL Technology receives NLA license to operate online lottery products

The license was presented to the company at the Authority’s Board Room by the Board Chairman and Director-General, Togbe Francis Nyonyo and Kofi Osei-Ameyaw...

Komenda Sugar Factory will work again – Naana Opoku-Agyemang

The running mate of the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has asked her kinsmen people of Komenda to appreciate the confidence reposed...

France gives ECOWAS $58 million loan

A €50 million ($58,613,000) loan agreement has been signed between the French Development Agency (AFD) and the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID). The...

Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple CEOs to be grilled by US Congress

For over a year, top lawmakers in Congress have been investigating Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. The investigation’s purpose? To determine whether the companies have abused their...

Bawumia lists Mahama’s ‘sins’ [Read]

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has reminded former President John Mahama that the 2020 Presidential elections is a choice between his eight-year record as...

109 markets in the Upper West region disinfected

The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development in partnership with Zoomlion Ghana Limited has conducted the second phase of the nationwide disinfection exercise...

Transport fares reduced by 10%

Transportation fares have been reduced by 10 percent, Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) has confirmed. The new fares will be effective Saturday, August 1, 2020. Chairman...

Covid-19: Volta Region markets, lorry parks, others disinfected

About 78 markets together with lorry parks, public toilets and other public places have been disinfected and fumigated in the Volta Region. The exercise followed...

Why we have borrowed more than any govt – NPP man explains

Communications Director for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Yaw Buaben Asamoa, has explained why the ruling government has borrowed more than any other government...

I’m unable to sleep for more than 4 hours – Ken Ofori-Atta reveals

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta says he is unable to sleep for more than four hours a day due to the nature of his job....

Ex-Staff writes: Was the collapse of the banking sector pre-meditated murder based on a self-fulfilling prophecy?

I have been thinking of why some banks, savings and loans companies and finance houses were shut down in 'Rambo style' and the only...

COPEC calls for reduction in transport fares as restrictions are eased

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) is calling for a reduction in transportation fares as commercial vehicles return to taking passengers at full seating...

Restrictions on transport sector lifted

 The restrictions in the transport sector have been lifted to allow for full capacity in domestic airplanes, taxis, 'trotros' and buses, President Nana Akufo-Addo...

This is the time to borrow – Economist defends govt’s borrowing

Dr Owusu Sarkodie, an economist at the Institute of Fiscal Studies, has defended borrowings made by the government to fight against the Covid-19 pandemic...

Timelines for NLA payment of winning tickets/prize reviewed due to COVID-19 and lotto fraudsters

The National Lottery Authority (NLA) is bringing to the attention of the staking public, media, lotto discounters, Lotto Marketing Companies (LMCs) and other stakeholders...

Govt announces reduction in 9% CST charges

Government has announced a reduction in the Communication Service Tax (CST) from nine per cent to five per cent. The move is to reduce the...

We won’t collapse your business – Govt to vehicle importers

The government has assured importers of ‘secondhand’ vehicles of job security following the passage of the Customs Amendment Bill. The Bill, passed on Tuesday, March...

76 factories completed under IDIF – Alan

Minister for Trade and Industry, Alan Kyerematen, has said 76 factories have been completed under its flagship the One-District-One-Factory (1D1F) programme. Among them, he stated,...

Ofori-Atta announces another 3 months of free electricity, water to Ghanaians

Ghanaians will enjoy another three months of free water and electricity supply as the government further reduces the burden of the Covid-19 pandemic on...

Finance Minister justifies GH¢ 10 billion BoG loan

Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, has justified the government’s GH¢ 10 billion loan from the Central Bank. Presenting the 2020 Mid-Year Budget Review on Thursday,...

Kantanka granted official operational licence

The highly-anticipated Kantanka range of vehicles, built by Ghanaian inventor, Safo Kantanka, is set to soon get on the market. This is because the Kantanka...

Ken Ofori-Atta replies Bishop Agyin-Asare in 2020 Mid-Year Budget Review

Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, has hit back at the Presiding Bishop of Perez Chapel International, Bishop Charles Agyinasare. Presenting the 2020 Mid-Year Budget Review on...

Finance Minister justifies collapse of Ghanaian banks

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has said that the banking sector clean-up undertaken by the government will contribute immensely to the strengthening of the Ghanaian...

Mahama’s govt liked awarding contracts ‘by heart’ – Ken Ofori-Atta

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has said that things were dire when the Akufo-Addo government took over the management of the country in 2017. According...

Coronavirus: Markers, lorry parks in Ahafo region disinfected again!

Markets and lorry parks in the Ahafo Region on Thursday had their turn of the on-going second nationwide disinfection, fumigation and clean-up exercise, aimed...

Ghana failed to meet 2019 GDP target – Ofori-Atta reveals

Ghana failed to meet its target for Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate in 2019. This was revealed by Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta when...

Market disinfection: Local Govt Ministry applauded

The Bono Regional Minister has lapped praises upon the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD), following the latter’s ongoing second phase disinfection,...

Illegal export of Rosewood from Ghana to China drops by 90%

The illegal export of Rosewood from Ghana to China has dropped by about 90% since July 2019, according to Washington DC-based Environmental Investigation Agency...

Akufo-Addo shoots Ursula Owusu’s DTT directives to GBC down

President Akufo-Addo has directed the Communications Minister to suspend the DTT directive given to the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC). A press release issued by the...

Silver Star Auto unveils Citroën Range of vehicles as an exclusive dealer in Ghana

Leading automobile premium and luxury dealer in Ghana, Silver Star Auto Limited has officially unveiled the new range of Citroën vehicles to the Ghanaian...

Clean-up exercise held in 29 markets in Greater Accra region

Markets in the twenty-nine (29) Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in the Greater Accra Region on Monday benefited from a massive clean-up exercise. The...

MTN encourages customers to update their sim details

MTN Ghana is encouraging customers to update their Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) details to ensure all customer details are captured accurately by the company. In...

Duffuor, Nduom, Amoabeng being destroyed out of envy – Agyinasare

The Presiding Bishop of Perez Chapel International, Bishop Charles Agyinasare, has appealed to Ghanaians to pray against the ‘demon’ that makes politicians collapse local businesses...