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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...

Sefwi Wiawso Traditional Council to honour BOST MD

The Sefwi Wiawso Traditional Council will honour Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Managing Director, Alfred Obeng Boateng for his contributions toward the development of the...

Stolen cars, oil head to Ghana – OECD report

Ghana and two other countries serve as the most popular destinations for stolen cars, a new report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and...

Makola traders protest against imposition of Market Queen

Some traders at the 31st December Market in Makola, Accra are protesting against what they describe as imposition of a Market Queen on them...

Use modern payment methods to avoid robberies – Etranzact Boss

The Chief Operating Officer of Etranzact Ghana Limited, George Babafemi, has blamed the recent spate of robberies in the country on the continuous use...

22nd Int’l Trade Fair opens with over 600 exhibitors

The 22nd Ghana International Trade Fair and Exhibition has opened in Accra with about 600 exhibitors displaying various goods and services. According to the Ghana...

JUMIA Ghana launches mobile phone week

Jumia Ghana, a leading online shop in Ghana has launched a Mobile Phone Week from March 19 to 25 with the aim to make...

Uber provide safety tips for riders in Ghana

Accra is a thriving, bustling metropolis with over 2 million people. Similar to other vibrant cities in the world like Johannesburg, South Africa, or...

Revenue target of GH¢ 39.8bn achievable — GRA Commissioner-General

The Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Mr Emmanuel Kofi Nti, has indicated that the authority’s revenue target of GH¢39.8 billion is achievable. It...

AUDIO: Tomato traders raise red flags over tomatoes import from Burkina Faso

The National Tomatoes Traders and Transporters Association (NTTTA) are raising red flags over the volume of tomato imports into the country from neighbour country,...