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Stanchart named digital bank of the Year at GITTA

Standard Chartered Bank Ghana Limited, has for the second consecutive year been named the Digital Bank of the Year at the Ghana Information...

Ministry of Finance approves commencement of 14 road projects

Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, Minister of Finance, on Friday June 28, 2019, conditionally, approved a multi-year funding commitment of GH¢1,560,551,812.33, for the commencement of 14...

Vice President Bawumia adjudged the Digital Leader of the Year

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has been adjudged the Digital Leader of the Year at the Ninth Ghana Information Technology and Telecom (GITTA) Awards for championing...

Menzgold customers join ‘Kum Y3n Pr3ko’ demo

Members of the Coalition of Aggrieved Customers of Menzgold (CACM), Ghana have decided to join a planned demonstration by the Coalition for Social Justice...

Address your grievances in court – GUTA told

The Accra Regional Police Command has cautioned Ghanaian retailers to seek redress in court over issues with foreigners in retail business in Ghana. According to...

US$4.8bn Ningo-Prampram Planned City Extension Project in the offing

The Ningo-Prampram District Assembly (NiPDA) will, from July this year, start a Land and House Ownership Scheme under the Planned City Extension Project aimed at providing...

Over Gh¢600m oil cash unaccounted in 2017, 2018

The Public Interest and Accountability Committee’s 2018 report point to budget non-compliance on the part of the Ministry of Finance. Chairman of PIAC, Dr Steve...

Vodafone Ghana to host the Selewa Cashless market this June

Vodafone Ghana is partnering Melon Concept, organizers of the Selewa cashless market for a massive discount sale at its headquarters, come Friday, June 28,...

Go and arrest kidnappers, robbers and stop bullying us – GUTA fires police (Audio)

The Leadership of the Ghana Union Traders Association (GUTA) has expressed their disappointment in the conduct of the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana...

BoG to announce new capital requirement for MoMo operators

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) will soon be announcing a new minimum capital requirement for all institutions that want to enter the business of...

Police pick up GUTA executives over trade fracas with foreigners

Personnel from the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service have arrested some executives of the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) and...

SSNIT to embark on mass Prosecution

The Social Security National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) in Bolgatanga has embarked on an exercise to prosecute defaulters to reduce indebtedness to the trust. The exercise would prosecute offenders...

Water tariff goes up by 8%

The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) has announced an 8.01% increase in water tariff, effective July 1. This, the regulator said had become necessary because...

Standard Chartered, GCX sign MoU to support farmers

Standard Chartered Bank Ghana Limited and the Ghana Commodity Exchange (GCX) signed an MOU to support Ghanaian farmers through access to financing and capacity...

PDS welcomes 11% increase in electricity tariff

Power Distribution Services (PDS) Ghana Limited has backed the decision by the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) to approve 11.17% tariff increase for electricity...

Gold gains to near highest since 2013

Gold’s bullish momentum has rolled into a new week. Prices extended their advance above $1,400 an ounce, near the highest level since September 2013, after...

CBG pays out GH¢2bn to depositors, MFIs from bonds

Consolidated Bank Ghana (CBG) has paid out some GH¢2 billion to depositors, including microfinance and savings and loans companies from bond cash it received...

GCB workers sue bank for attempts to sack them over WASSCE results

A GCB Bank memo cited by Adom News indicates that some clerical staff of the bank, have secured a court injunction on attempts to...

Kalybos officially unveiled as shareholder and ambassador for digital marketing App, Geddit

Ghanaian actor, Richard Asante, popularly known as Kalybos, has been newly signed as the brand ambassador and shareholder of a new digital marketing app called Geddit. He...

Corruption Watch: SEC losing public trust … As Gold Coast and Beige customers demand funds

Some frustrated customers of troubled fund management companies say they have lost confidence in the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) because SEC appears unable to compel...

PURC announces new electricity tariffs

The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) has approved an 11.17% tariff increase for electricity which is to take effect from July 1, 2019. In a statement signed...

Ghana to receive $75m WB support for Industrial Park

Trade Minister Alan Kyerematen has said Ghana is due to receive $75 million from the World Bank to develop industrial parks.  He said the...

NCA sues tribunal for bias

The National Communications Authority (NCA) has sued the Electronic Communications Tribunal for what it describes as ‘potential bias’ against the authority...

Zoomlion doing a lot to curb air pollution – Sophia Lissah

Sophia Lissah, Group Head of Communications of Jospong Group Limited, the parent company of Zoomlion Ghana Limited has declared that leading waste management...

GIPC calls for revision of law to resolve retailers’ impasse

“If the law is not helping us, let us look at it and see if we can amend it to remove some of these...

Electricity tariff up by over 11%

The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) has approved an 11.17% tariff increase for electricity from July 1. The PURC explained in a press release on Friday...

Ghana’s economy expands 6.7 per cent in first quarter of 2019

Ghana’s economy grew 6.7 per cent year-on-year in the first three months of 2019 compared to 5.4 per cent in the same period last...

Video: Abossey Okai Spare Parts dealers endorse ‘riot’ against Nigerians by Kumasi Magazine traders

The Abossey Okai Spare Parts Dealers Association has given the government two weeks ultimatum to stop foreigners doing retail business in the country, else it will...

Audio: Abossey Okai Spare Parts Dealers bare teeth at foreigners in retail business

Members of the Abossey Okai Spare Parts Dealers Association have given the government a two-week ultimatum to clamp down on foreigners engaged in retail...

Audio: What triggered Suame riot against Nigerians

It has emerged that the rampaging youth, who vandalised shops belonging to Nigerians at Suame in the Ashanti region over the incessant kidnappings in...

MTN holds Bright Young CEO Summit

In line with the theme for this year’s 21 Days of Y’ello Care, “Creating a Brighter Future for our Youth,” MTN Ghana has organized a young...

Ghana’s economy expands 6.7 per cent in first quarter of 2019

Ghana’s economy grew 6.7 per cent year-on-year in the first three months of 2019 compared to 5.4 per cent in the same period last year,...

Companies without Data Protection Certs. risk losing license

Ghana’s Commissioner of Data Protection, Patricia Edusei-Poku has warned that companies which refuse to register with the Ghana Data Protection Commission risk losing their businesses licenses. She...

Audio: Why Ghana Bauxite Company workers demo turned violent

Workers of the Ghana Bauxite Company in Awaso in the Western North region have justified the burning of company property during a violent protest. An...

Kayaye to receive vocational skills training

Thirty vulnerable girls engaged in head porterage (kayayo) in Accra and Kumasi are to benefit from an integrated vocational and life skills training initiative to empower...

NAFCO CEO woos Ghanaians in diaspora into Agricultural investment

The Chief Executive Officer of the National Food Buffer Stock Company, Mr. Hanan Abdul-Wahab has urged Ghanaians living abroad and desirous of coming home to consider...

GH¢43million saved after clearing the pension’s payroll – SSNIT

The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has saved a whooping GH¢43million as of April this year after deleting over 6,300 ghost pensioners from its...

NGO provides free vocational training youth in Kyebi

A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) “Susanna Appiah- Pippim Memorial Training Centre,” has officially opened at Kibi in the Eastern region. It was established on 21st...

Countries, religious institutions cashing in on marijuana trade, why not Ghana? – Dumelo asks

Over the last five years, lots of countries have revised their laws to decriminalise the usage and trade of marijuana. The marijuana industry reports...

Tema-Akosombo rail line workers threaten strike

Ghanaian workers, contracted by an Indian company Afcons Infrastructure Limited to work on the ongoing construction of a Single Standard Gauge Railway line from...