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Banks unwilling to lend support – Rice Millers lament

The Rice Millers Association has lamented that financial institutions in Ghana are unwilling to lend support to facilitate their businesses. According to the group,...

BoG grants GCB Bank authorisation to issue electronic money

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) says it has granted GCB Bank Ghana authorisation to issue electronic money similar to what is popularly known as...

Students loan defaulters start repaying as more names are published

Persons indebted to the Students Loans Trust Fund (SLTF) have begun taking steps to settle their indebtedness following the publication of names and photographs...

Cryptoqueen: How this woman scammed the world, then vanished

Ruja Ignatova called herself the Cryptoqueen. She told people she had invented a cryptocurrency to rival Bitcoin, and persuaded them to invest billions. Then,...

Rigworld gets OMC license

Rigworld Group, one of Ghana’s leading oil and gas engineering, logistics and human resources development companies has been granted a license by the National...

Here is why Ghanaians should consume local rice

Kennedy Osei Nyarko, Deputy Minister for Agriculture, is of the view that the nutritional value of Ghana’s local rice undoubtedly makes it the best...

People’s Pension Trust’s Life Bonus Cover beneficiary receives cheque

People’s Pension Trust Ghana Limited has presented a cheque of 2000 Ghana cedis to the first beneficiary of its life insurance cover on its...

Govt sets 2022 target to be self-sufficient in rice production

Government has set 2022 target to achieve self-sufficiency in rice production, Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, Kennedy Osei Nyarko, has said. According to him,...

Uber loses licence to operate in London

Uber will not be granted a new licence to operate in London after repeated safety failures, Transport for London has said. The regulator said...

Facebook, Instagram to block under-18s from viewing sexually explicit content

Facebook and Instagram will block under-18s from viewing sexual content from as early as next year, it has been claimed. The social networks plan to...

Samira Bawumia to launch first edition of World Shea Expo

The Second Lady, Hajia Samira Bawumia, will launch the first edition of the World Shea Expo at La Palm Royal Beach Hotel in Accra on December...

Auditor-General discovers $ 3.4b unpaid penalties relating to Petroleum Holding Fund

The Auditor-General, Mr. Daniel Yaw Domelevo, has discovered $ 3.4 b in unpaid penalties relating to the Petroleum Holding Fund.  The latest report on the management of...

Chamber of Commerce honors Happy Man Bitters

The organisers of Ghana National Chamber of Commerce Business Awards, has hailed the impact of Charger Limited on Ghana football. In a recently held awards...

1D1F: Wenchi Municipal Assembly to get biscuit, chocolate factories

Barring any last minute hitches, the chief and people of the Wenchi Municipal Assembly in the Bono Region, biscuit and chocolate factories under government's...

Akufo-Addo pushes Ghana cocoa in Germany

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said his determination to ensure cocoa farmers get value for money for what they produce is on...

Farmers punch holes in govt’s PFJs success and surplus food claims [Video]

Rice farmers have questioned the viability of government’s biggest flagship agricultural programme, ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’ (PFJs) and the subsequent claim of abundance...

MTN Ghana excels at 9th marketing world awards, wins seven awards

In recognition for its professionalism in undertaking Marketing Campaigns and activities, MTN Ghana excelled at the 9th Marketing World Awards by receiving seven prestigious awards. MTN was...

Telcos to stop upfront ‘talk tax’ deductions on Tuesday

The Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications (GCT) has announced that telecommunication companies in Ghana will from Tuesday, November 26, 2019, stop the upfront deduction of...

Wiyaala joins campaign to promote local rice

Singer Wiyaala has thrown her weight behind the campaign to push local rice in the Ghanaian market. This comes after some local rice farmers in...

Official: Govt plans to reduce importation of rice

Deputy Minister of Agriculture in charge of Horticulture, George Boahen Oduro, has outlined plans put in place by the government of Ghana to ensure...

Listen: Rice importers withdraw ads from media house over local rice campaign

It has emerged that some rice importers in the country have reportedly withdrawn all advertisements from Accra-based Citi FM. READ: Audio: Dan Botwe proposes withdrawal...

Peasant Farmers call on govt to address rice post-harvest losses

The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) is calling on the government to, as a matter of urgency, address the issues of post-harvest losses...

Jospong invites European investors to partner with Ghana’s private sector

The Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies, Dr Joseph Siaw Agyepong, has reiterated his call for a sustainable plan for the...

National Buffer Stock to put 60k bags of rice in Fumbisi on the market

National Food Buffer Stock Limited has said that it aims to remove the 60,000 maxi bags of excess rice grains left in the...

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...