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Fertilizer smuggling in Upper East is worrying – DCE

Zubieru Abduliah, the District Chief Executive (DCE) of the Pusiga District, has expressed concern at the increasing rate of fertilizer smuggling and urged dealers...

Gov’t gets GHS1.5bn from sale of 5-year bond

The government has successfully raised GHS1.49 billion through the sale of a five-year bond. The bond was oversubscribed by 12.86 per cent as bids totalled...

MTN's Mohammed Rufai is GITTA CTO of the year

Chief Technical Officer of MTN Ghana, Mohammed Lawal Rufai has been adjudged the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the Year at the 2017 Ghana...

Be careful of demons – Kwesi Botchwey cautions government

Former Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Dr. Kwesi Botchwey, has advised current managers of the Ghanaian economy to be careful of demons that...

Cabinet Approves establishment of Electricity Market Oversight Panel

Ghana’s electricity sub-sector will soon have an oversight body regulating its activities, as envisaged in a Legislative Instrument passed by Parliament in 2008. Officials of...

Army worm: Agric Minister's victory comment doubtful – Joe Jackson

Economist, Joe Jackson, has said it was out of place for the Minister of Food and Agriculture Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto to have declared...

Farmers dispute Minister's claim that fall army worms have been defeated

The Northern Regional Focal Person for the Peasant Farmers Association, Marteen Alhassan, says though some gains have been made in the fight against the...

Moody's: BoG policy rate cut is credit positive for banks

The rating agency Moody’s says the 150 basis points policy rate cut by the Bank of Ghana last week is credit positive for the...

The perfect jobs for travel enthusiasts

Is travel your everyday dose? Then, you must know that some jobs have a restricting nature that would restrain you from actively living that...

Capital Bank introduces instant inter-bank transfers on ATM

Customers of Capital Bank now have the opportunity to transfer cash from the bank’s ATM to any other bank in Ghana instantly. The service, the...

‘Galamsey’ threatens cocoa seedling production

Activities of illegal miners, who use hazardous chemicals in their operations, have made River Birem unsuitable for irrigation purposes, threatening the production of cocoa...

Gold pushes June PPI to 3.6%

The Producer Price Index (PPI) which measures the average change over time in the prices received by domestic producers for the production of their...

Importers abandon business over high taxes

A significant number of importers in Ghana are abandoning their operations over the increasing number of taxes charged at the country’s ports coupled with...

Moody's: BoG policy rate cut is credit positive for banks

The rating agency Moody’s says the 150 basis points policy rate cut by the Bank of Ghana last week is credit positive for the...

Hot audio: Fall armyworms have been defeated – Agric Minister

The Agriculture Minister says government has eliminated the fall armyworm which ravaged over 112,000 hectares of farms across the country. Dr. Akoto Owusu Afriyie explained...

Gov’t advised to channel grants and loans to credit unions

Government has been advised to channel its resources, grants and loans through the credit union to achieve their objectives especially in terms of loans...

Local banks beg gov’t over single treasury

Indigenous banks in the country have indicated that even though they accept government’s moves to consolidate its accounts via the Treasury Single Account (TSA),...

Banking sector well capitalized – BoG

Even before it releases its July 2017 Banking Sector Report, the Bank of Ghana (BoG) says the banking sector remains sound, well capitalised and...

Hunger looms in Ghana

Ghana is most likely to suffer food shortage this year, due to the devastation caused by fall armyworms, leaving 18,219.07 hectares of maize farms...

Ghana’s trade surplus hits 1.4 billion dollars – BoG

New figures from the Bank of Ghana have shown that Ghana’s total balance of trade recorded a surplus of 1.429 billion dollars as at...

Google maps: Can you find a better travel assistant than this?

Destination: On route to Lingbinsi in North Gonja District of the Northern Region of Ghana. What for? Well, I will let you know in a...

GWCL’s e-billing system to cover all telcos by August

Beginning next month, customers of Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) can pay their water bills on all telecommunication network, as the company continues its...

Gov’t urged to channel support through credit unions

The government has been advised to channel its resources, grants and loans to Ghanaian businesses through credit unions to achieve their objectives. Volta Region Chairman...

Lack of education on ‘planting for food and jobs’ disturbing – Farmers

Some farmers in the country are demanding further consultations in determining the required procedures to participate in the planting for food and jobs initiative. The...

Finance Minister reschedules mid-year review presentation to July 31

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has rescheduled his presentation of the mid-year review to Monday July 31. The minister was initially expected to have carried out...

Nina Baksmaty: Building Koshie O

Its 2011 and Nina Baksmaty is sprawled across her bed in her New York apartment. Nine weeks pregnant, in the middle of a business...

Cabinet approves Fiscal Responsibility Law to cap fiscal deficit to 3-5% of GDP

Days after the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, hinted of Government’s desire to place a cap on Ghana’s fiscal deficit as a percentage of...

BoG reduces policy rate by 150 basis points

The Bank of Ghana has reduced its policy rate to 21 percent. The figure represents a 150 basis points reduction from the 22.5 percent. This...

Bank of Ghana reduces policy rate to 21 per cent

The Monetary Policy Committee has reduced the policy rate by 150 basis points to 21 per cent from 22.5 per cent, citing lower risk...

MTN deletes 3.4 million inactive lines from network

MTN Group has redefined who an active subscriber is and that has led to MTN Ghana deleting a whopping 3.4 million inactive lines from...

Oil producers debate how to cap rising Libyan, Nigerian output

Russia called on OPEC to limit oil output rises from its members Libya and Nigeria in the near future, as it hosted a meeting...

IMF downgrades US and UK growth

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has lowered its forecasts for US and UK economic growth this year, following "weaker-than-expected activity" in the first three...

Ghana’s debt now GH¢137 billion

The total public debt for the country as at May this year has reached ¢137 billion putting the debt-to-GDP ratio at 67.5%, a summary...

Banks’ interests on car loans drop to 31.1 % in June

The latest Annual Percentage Rates (APR) and Average Interest (AI) report by the Bank of Ghana shows that Unibank offers the highest rate on...

Five fun ways corporate workers can escape stress

There are those who work when they want and how they wish. They have no regular schedules and are not limited to certain timelines...

Ghana’s debt stock hits ¢137 billion – BOG

The total public debt for the country as at May this year has reached ¢137 billion putting the debt-to-GDP ratio at 67.5%, a summary of...

Base pay goes up by 11 percent

Social partners made up of the government, labour unions and employers have agreed to an 11 per cent increase in the base pay on...

Oil prices remain steady at $49.68 per barrel

Oil prices held steady on Thursday, hanging on to gains made the previous session when falling U.S. crude inventories lifted the market, as analysts...

Cocoa farmers’ children assured of scholarship

Cocoa farmers have been assured to exercise restraint as they might no longer struggle to secure scholarships for their children in Senior High Schools...

Around Accra in 12 hours

Accra, the capital city of Ghana is the first and last place every tourist or business traveler will experience on entry and exit respectively....