2017

The UT Bank gained 25 per cent at the mid-week transaction on the Ghana Stock Exchange to close at GH¢0.05 per share whilst the GCB Bank inched up by 0.7 per cent to close at GH¢5.22 per share. The SCB Bank also gained 0.1 per cent to…

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, on Thursday, urged the Public Procurement Authority to ensure that from June, this year, every procurement conducted would be uniquely captured with a special identity code for easy tracking. He…

Dr Frank Amoah, the Director of the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG), has said Cocobod is poised to attain the one-million metric tonne of cocoa production. He said 70 years was enough for cocoa production to hit its maximum…

As at the end of January this year, the total subscriptions of mobile data in Ghana stands at more than 20 million with a penetration rate of 70.90 per cent, Mr Joe Anokye, the Director General of the National Communications Authority (NCA)…

Mr Osei Bonsu Amoah, a Deputy Minister Designate for Local Government and Rural Development, , on Thursday, rejected claims of being culpable of revenue loss to the State in contracts to renovate the Accra Sports Stadium and…

Mr Alan Kyeremanteng, the Minister of Trade and Industry, has urged private sector operators to team up with government to execute the country’s development agenda of one district one factory. The Minister told captains of private…

Pressure group, OccupyGhana has called on the government to take immediate action against all unlicensed and unregulated mining in the country. In a press release issued on March 30, 2017, the group said it has studied the galamsey…

Parliament has approved the budget estimates of GH¢553.645 million for the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) for the 2017 financial year, with a call on the authority to provide more tax offices and make them more visible to the taxpayer.…

Ghana has signed a framework agreement with South Korea to enable it obtain a concessionary loan facility from the Economic Development Cooperation Fund (EDF). The framework agreement, to be implemented from this year to 2019, would…

Government would make allocation in the next budget to support the creation of cyber security infrastructure and technologies needed to fight cybercrime, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekufful, the Minister of Communications, has said. …