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GUTA prasies govt over VAT reduction

The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) has eulogized the Akufo-Addo led government for addressing their concerns. This was after government scrapped VAT on 64...

Government scraps VAT on 64 commodities

The government has announced that it has since March 1, 2018 scrapped VAT on 64 commodities after consultation with the various stakeholders. A statement issued...

Panic withdrawals at Unibank branches

Branches of uniBank have opened to panic withdrawals by customers across the country barely a day after it was taken over by the Bank...

Jumia Ghana scoops the digital innovation company of the year award

Jumia Ghana (Africa’s leading ecommerce platform) was announced as the digital innovation company of the year 2017, at the CCI France Ghana Gala &...

UniBank takeover: No customer will lose money – BoG

The Bank of Ghana has assured customers of uniBank that their savings are safe, despite handing over management of the financial outfit to KPMG. The...

BREAKING: Bank of Ghana takes over Unibank

The Bank of Ghana has announced it has taken over the management of private bank, Unibank. The Governor of the central bank explained at a...

Ghana is the best destination for investment – Veep

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said Ghana is the best investment destination because government is committed to pursuing business-friendly programmes and policies to...

Gov't clandestinely replaces 1% tax relief with other taxes – Importers boss alleges

Importers are accusing government of charging cut throat prices at the Tema and Takoradi ports. According to them, the introduction of new taxes by the...

Average base rate for February drops marginally to 24.5% – BoG

The Bank of Ghana on Friday released its latest data on Annual Percentage Rates (APR) of interest charged on loans and credit advances and...

Ghanaian businessmen meet India business gurus to attract Investors

As part of efforts aimed at attracting investors to Ghana, Ghana’s High Commissioner to India, Lawyer Mike Ocquaye Junior has invited some ministers, CEOs...

NCA observes World Consumer Rights Day with consumer roadshows

The National Communications Authority (NCA) marked this year’s international World Consumer Rights Day (WCRD), with Road Shows in three regional capitals in the country. The...

Forestry Commission partners NDF to school timber businessmen

The Forestry Commission is assisting timber industries in Ghana to adhere to laid down regulations in the forestry supply chain. According to the commission, many...

Akufo-Addo gov't collapsing our businesses – GUTA

The leadership of the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) has expressed disappointment in the Akufo-Addo led government. According to them, a capitalist oriented government...

KIA gets third passenger terminal

Over the past four years, the Kotoka International Airport has been the beneficiary of several infrastructural expansion and upgrade projects. But the most ambitious and...

AGI commends government for reducing tariffs

The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) has commended government for recently announcing reductions in electricity tariffs across industry and other consumer categories by the...

Ghana named Africa's biggest mobile market

A recent report on the Ghanaian Mobile Sector by Africa’s leading e-commerce company Jumia, has revealed that Ghana is one of Africa’s largest mobile...

Inflation to end at 8% in 2018 – Barclays predicts

While February's inflation rate remains outside the single digit bracket, Barclays says it expects inflation to move to about 8 percent as early as...

New Shippers’ Authority office opens in Tamale

The Tamale office of the Ghana Shippers’ Authority (GSA) was inaugurated last Tuesday to start the provision of services to shippers operating in the...

Inflation hits 10.6% percent

The Consumer Price inflation has increased to 10.6 percent in February from 10.3 percent recorded in January. The marginal increase is being attributed mainly to an...

Employee-background check is a must – Business risk specialist warns

Business entities that do not take the pain to conduct thorough background checks on potential employees face a considerable risk which could lead to...

Top five mobile apps that changed Africa

A global village! That is what we all say the world has become. Could it be because everything that happens around the world is...

FIDO Money Lending receives funding from DEG’s up-scaling programme

FIDO Money Lending Limited (FIDO), an innovative digital-first financial institution based in Accra, Ghana, received funding to the amount of 500,000 Euro from the German...

Ghana may struggle to repay $1.3bn cocoa loan

Ghana Cocoa Board may struggle to fully pay back loans of $1.3 billion as this season’s harvest will likely be smaller than first anticipated,...

AirtelTigo employees celebrate International Women's Day 2018

As the World joined together on International Women’s Day to collectively ‘Press for Progress’, AirtelTigo celebrated the women that make up the business with...

Solar companies equipped, ready to aid the President – SPS CEO

The CEO of Strategic Power Solutions (SPS), Ofori Boateng has stated that Solar companies in Ghana are ready and equipped to partner government meet...

Women own 46% of businesses in Ghana – MasterCard Report

Ghana has the highest percentage of women business owners worldwide, according to the recent MasterCard Index of Women's Entrepreneurship (MIWE) release on International Women's...

NCCE intensifies tax education in Ashanti Region

The Asante Akim South Municipal Directorate of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has intensified its public education on tax in order to...

Indigenous banks need support to thrive – Baako tells gov’t

The editor in chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper is urging the government to put in place measures that will ensure that indigenous...

Komenda chief fumes over ‘white elephant’ sugar factory

Omanhen of Komenda Traditional Area, Nana Kojo Kru II, has registered his displeasure about the seeming collapse of the Komenda Sugar Factory in the...

NCA formally notifies Kasapa of plans to ‘terminate licence’

National Communications Authority (NCA) has warned Kasapa Telecom that due to its inability to meet regulatory licence obligations, there is currently an ongoing process...

Komenda Sugar Factory remains shut two years after inauguration

The Komenda Sugar Factory, set up to provide 7,300 direct and indirect jobs, remains shut, two years after its inauguration. Sugarcane farmers and the people...

Ghana seeks to barter bauxite for roads, bridges

Ghana will finalize details of an infrastructure program before the end of the year and will pay for it with refined bauxite, said President...

GSE lifts suspension on adb

The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE), has lifted a...

BMW Club Ghana launched in Accra

A club for owners of BMW-automobile and individuals passionate about the global brand has been launched in Accra Tuesday. Christened BMW Club Ghana, the group is...

MTN Ghana celebrates women on International Women’s Day

MTN Ghana, the leading telecommunication company in Ghana congratulates all women on the occasion of the International Women’s Day celebration. The company said in a...

VIDEO: Womens World Banking offers collateral free loans to women

Womens World Banking Ghana is offering collateral free loans to women across the country. The aim, according to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the...

ADB dismisses uniBank takeover report

The management of the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) has dismissed reports claiming that uniBank has taken over 51 percent shares. Reports indicate that uniBank has...

Coca-Cola to make its first alcoholic drink

Coca-Cola is planning to produce an alcoholic drink for the first time in the company's 125-year history - with an alcopop-style product in Japan. It...

Tariff reduction is proof ECG does not need private sector participation – Dr Manteaw

Campaign Coordinator for Integrated Social Development Center (ISODEC), Dr. Steve Manteaw, believes the ongoing process to cede part of ECG’s operations to private hands...

uniBank takes over ADB

In an unexpected move that could be the beginning of a restructuring of the local banking space, a consortium of financial institutions that control...