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Registrar General’s Department to delete about 500k firms from Companies Register

The newly launched Office of the Registrar of Companies (ORC) is set to delete close to 500,000 companies from its database. This is for not...

Amazon raises Prime subscription price

Amazon is to raise the price of its Prime service for UK customers. From September, monthly subscriptions will go up £1 to £8.99 and annual...

IMF bailout a short-term measure – Ofori-Atta

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has said that the government’s decision to seek an International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout is a short-term measure of the...

BoG has printed ¢22b without parliamentary approval – Ato Forson alleges

Former Deputy Finance Minister, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson has accused the government of encouraging the Bank of Ghana to print an amount of GH¢22 billion without...

You are digging your grave to jail – Adongo tells Ofori-Atta

Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolgatanga Central Constituency, Isaac Adongo, has hit at Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta following the presentation of the 2022 mid-year...

2022 Mid-Year Budget Review: Ofori-Atta admits hardships

The Finance Minister has admitted that the economic outlook of the country “has darkened significantly”, a development that is making life unbearable for citizens. Mr...

Free SHS under review or not: Ofori-Atta sets records straight

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has said the Free Senior High School (SHS) and TVET education are not under review. Presenting the 2022 Mid-Year Budget...

We’re staying within 2022 appropriation; we are not seeking additional funds – Ofori-Atta

Government says it will use the windfall from the upstream petroleum sector to make up for its revenue shortfall in the 2022 budget.  The Finance...

Full text: Ken Ofori-Atta’s 2022 Mid-Year Budget Review speech

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has presented the 2022 Mid-Year Budget Review to Parliament for approval. Below is the full statement delivered on July 25,...

Minority MPs chant ‘away’ as Ofori-Atta presents 2022 mid-year budget

The Members of Parliament (MPs) on the Minority side have chanted calls for the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, to resign. The call by the...

Musk denies affair with Google co-founder’s wife

Tesla boss Elon Musk has denied having an affair with Nicole Shanahan, the wife of Google co-founder, Sergey Brin. Mr Musk's comments came after the...

Finance Minister to present 2022 Mid-Year Budget Review

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, will present the 2022 Mid-Year Budget Review in Parliament later today, July 25. Mr Ofori-Atta was scheduled to deliver the...

Why Tekno Miles is one of the best ambassadors for Sportsbet.io

Sportsbet.io snagged a big win when they landed a sponsorship deal with one of the most popular icons in the African music industry in...

Cedi loses 19.2% value to dollar in almost 7 months of 2022 – BoG

The cedi lost 19.2% in value to the US dollar in almost seven months of 2022. According to the Summary of Economic and Financial Data...

Mobile Money transactions fall in May but increase in June despite E-levy implementation

Mobile Money transactions dipped by 18.58% to ¢71.4 billion in May 2022, the month of implementation of the Electronic Transaction Levy (E-Levy). However, in the...

Buy fuel from only certified retailers – NPA

The Head of Consumer Services at the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Eunice Budu Nyarko, has appealed to the public to purchase fuel only from...

Twitter spent $33m in three months on Musk deal

Twitter spent $33m (£27m) on Elon Musk's proposed deal to buy the firm between April and June 2022. It also said its number of monthly...

I’m not sure people sleep on empty stomach in Ghana – Agric Minister [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · I'm not sure people sleep with hunger in Ghana - Agric Minister Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has rubbished...

Snapchat owner hit as advertising slump hit sales

Shares in the owner of social media platform Snapchat have plummeted after it missed revenue expectations and warned it faces "incredibly challenging" conditions. The firm...

You are handling eggs wrongly – Ghana Standards Authority tells Ghanaians

The conventional ways of handling eggs, including the sale of broken eggs for consumption, have been identified as posing public health risk. According to the...

GOIL cautions public against fraudulent fuel subsidy promotion

Leading Oil Marketing Company, GOIL, is cautioning the public against a fraudulent fuel subsidy promotion scheme with a link being circulated on social media...

Ken Ofori-Atta must resign over IMF u-turn – Kwabena Agyapong

A former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwabena Agyapong, has called for the resignation of Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta. His call is...

Over ₵5billion bribes paid in both private and public sectors in 2021- GSS

Over ₵5 billion of bribes were paid in both the private and the public sector, this is according to the Ghana Statistical Service's (GSS)...

Elon Musk sells most of it’s bitcoin holdings

Tesla, which made waves last year when it revealed a major investment in Bitcoin, has now sold off most of its holdings of the...

Elon Musk to stand trial in october over Twitter’s lawsuit

A US judge has ordered that Twitter's lawsuit against Elon Musk go to trial in October, a blow to the world's richest man who...

Netflix loses millions of subscribers

After enjoying a long reign as the king of streaming, Netflix faces a tough fight to keep its crown. It lost almost 1m subscribers between...

Ghana ranked 2nd among countries with highest debt default risk in 2022 by Bloomberg

A Bloomberg study has ranked Ghana 2nd among countries with the highest debt default risk in 2022. The country closely follows El Salvador (ranked number...

Uber to pay $2.2m to disabled riders over wait fees

Uber has agreed to pay more than $2m (£1.68m) to settle claims brought by the US government that its wait time fees discriminated against...

NPA, Ministry of Energy tour SIGMA Ghana

Officials of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) and the Ministry of Energy have toured the facilities of SIGMA, Ghana, a multinational company with 24...

Tourists stranded in China over coronavirus surge

More than 2,000 tourists have been stranded in a Chinese coastal city after a surge in coronavirus cases. Officials in Beihai locked down urban areas...

Ghana’s mango export grows 28% to hit $64.6m in 2021

Ghana’s export of mangoes grew by 28% between 2020 and 2021. According to the Ghana Exports Promotions Center (GEPA), the total value of export in...

More OMCs cut fuel prices

More Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) are expected to review the prices of petroleum products downwards, from this morning (July 18, 2022). It’s coming after the...

NPA closes fuel stations in Western Region for cheating consumers

The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) as part of its routine exercises has clamped down on some fuel stations in the Western Region that have...

China faces economic crises over zero-covid policy

China's economy contracted sharply in the second quarter of this year as widespread coronavirus lockdowns hit businesses and consumers. Gross domestic product (GDP) fell by...

Prices of petrol, diesel, LPG to go down from July 16

Prices of Petroleum products are expected to witness some decline from this weekend (July 16th), with diesel expected go down by more than 11%. This...

49% of Ghanaians to stop using e-transactions due to E-Levy – Afrobarometer report

Majority of Ghanaians are not confident at all that government will use the 1.5 per cent currently being charged on Electronic Transactions (E-levy) to...

Multi-Pac Ltd awards winners in ‘Win Big Promo’ draw in Accra

Multi-Pac limited, one of Ghana's leading beverage manufacturer and producers of 5-star energy drink and Perla mineral water among other range of products, have...

Why the HUAWEI nova Y70 is the top entry-level smartphone in Ghana this year

No matter how you look at it, the prices of flagships or high-end smartphones are still a deterrent for many people, especially those on...

Ghana’s debt would have been sustainable if not for Covid-19, Russia-Ukraine war – Bawumia

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has indicated that Ghana’s debt to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) would have be within the sustainable threshold of some...

Restore fiscal sustainability to cut debt, address economic imbalance – World Bank to govt

The World Bank has charged the country to restore fiscal sustainability going forward in order to facilitate debt reduction to a sustainable level. It also...