August 2010

MTN Ghana announced a partnership deal with one of Ghana’s leading Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and operators of the country’s largest Internet cafés, Busy Internet early August. The deal which was started as a pilot project to enable…

President John Evans Mills says he will not allow his ministers or people close to him to steal the country’s oil revenue, according to a news bulletin monitored on Citi FM by ghanabusinessnews.com. President Mills said these when he…

Taxation in general, as a matter of fact, has been observed by experts to have either direct or indirect effects on almost every aspect of production and distribution in modern economies. Double taxation, however, is the imposition of…

The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) All-Share Index, the main market indicator, went up 7.3 points from 6,788.41 points last Friday to close Monday’s trading at 6,795.71 points. The Change Year to Date is 21.95. Traded volume closed the…

About 10 cocoa farmer organisations in Ghana are on course to join others in becoming Fairtrade certified by the end of the year, thanks to the work of the Cadbury Cocoa Partnership. The initiative launched a-year-and-a-half ago is…

Members of Ghana Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC)have recommended to the Ministry of Education (MOE) and Ghana Education Service(GES) to close down Great Lamptey-Mills Schools following the alleged unprofessional conduct of the…

The people of Dunga, a settlement in the Tamale Metropolitan Area, drink from a dam which is usually polluted with human excreta. Due to the poor source of water, several members of the community have been afflicted with diseases which…

Residents of the Accra Metropolis have identified provision of better places of convenience, improvement in sanitation and drainage as well as refuse and solid waste disposal services as their priorities of concern. In addition,…

The ECOWAS Commission would organise a week-long sensitisation workshop on the ongoing negotiation of an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between West Africa and European Union for a free trade area between the two regions. It would be…

Senate Club, an Abeka-based Muslim non-governmental organization, has inaugurated a committee to educate Muslim youth against cybercrime (commonly known as “Sakawa”) and other negative tendencies. “We want to also use the committee to…