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The year-on-year inflation rate stood at 16.6 per cent in January, up by 0.1 percentage points from 16.5 per cent recorded in February, the Ghana Statistical Service announced on Wednesday. Mr Baah Wadieh, the Deputy Government…

Ghana earns more than $4.5 billion from gold exports in 2014, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources says, according to a Ghana News Agency (GNA) report. The GNA cites the Minister, Nii Osae Mills as saying in 2014, the mining…

Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has assured investors that the medium to long term prospects of the country’s economy are good. He said despite the economic challenges in the country income levels had improved and extreme poverty…

A witness in the GYEEDA case says the document plagiarised by Mr Philip Akpeena Assibit and presented as the “Youth Employment Action Plan and Exit Strategy” was the same as that of Serbia. Mrs Diana Adu Anane, the Deputy Staff…

President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday gave the assurance that government would do everything under its purview to revive the Volta Aluminum Company (VALCO) to take its rightful position in the smelting of alumina in the country. He…

Forty four per cent of Ghanaian adults are said to be financially excluded, that is to say that they do not use any form of financial mechanisms to manage their lives. A large percentage of people are deprived of the requisite banking…

President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday hinted that government would empower indigenous industries to operate to their optimum to reduce the importation of sub-standard goods. "Government will remove the dumping of cheaper products…

President John Dramani Mahama said on Tuesday government has not sold the Electricity Company, and has no intention of doing so in the coming years. He said: "Allowing private sector participation in power generation and distribution…

Mrs Agnes Emefa Essah, the Chief Marketing Officer of Vodafone Ghana, has urged business owners to connect with their consumers in order to increase productivity. She said with the higher penetration of mobile phones and the Internet,…

Dr Jeff Bassey, a Human Resource Consultant, has observed that while it was true the job market was virtually clogged, there still were jobs for the career-oriented and self-motivated in vision propelled institutions. Dr Bassey made the…