General News

The Integrated Management System (IMS), one of the largest African American firms in the United States has donated 100 litter bins worth $15,000 to the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources (MSWR). Mr Wahab Essuman, the local Manager of the IMS, Ghana, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency …

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) is in the process of developing robust framework for implementing a Risk-Based Approach (RBA) to Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) for designated non-financial businesses and professions. Dr Ernest Addison, the Governor, BoG, said this on Tuesday in a speech read on his behalf …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Tuesday gave assent to the amended Minerals and Mining Act that seeks to deter and prescribes stiffer punishment for people engaged in illegal mining. The new law enhances the penalties for illegal mining activities, otherwise known as Galamsey, and explicitly criminalizes any aiding and abetting …

The Progressive Scraps Dealers Association of Ghana (PROSDAG), an association of scraps dealers based in Kumasi, has appealed to the government and the Ministry of Trade and Industry to as a matter of urgency, lift the ban on scraps export, to make the industry more competitive. The association had also …

An Accra Circuit Court has convicted a woman and her boyfriend for robbing her ex-boyfriend but sentence was deferred till August 27. Jonathan K. Wiallens and Jennifer Agyemang, both in their early 20s, have been remanded into police custody to go for their respective sentences later. Three of their accomplices …

Mr Charles Ayamdoo, the Director, Anti-Corruption of Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) says the Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition (GACC) shall begin naming institutions who fail to implement the National Anti-Corruption Action Plan (NACAP). He said the approach would compel the institutions to adhere to the action plan initiated …

Professor George Gyan-Baffour, the Minister of Planning, has re-affirmed government’s commitment to utilise the strategic resources of the country to facilitate industrial transformation and stimulate socio-economic development. He said government would continue to encourage value addition to raw materials because it is critical towards transforming the structure of the economy …

A study  conducted by the Africa RISING Project, Ghana has revealed that access to extension services, guaranteed markets for produce and poor road networks, continues to be a major problem confronting farmers in the country. The study, “Assessing institutions enabling or constraining access to output and input markets by farm …

A modern museum is to be built at the Sunyani Technical University to preserve the cultural heritage and the bond of unity between the Chiefs and people of the Bonos and Ahafos. Professor Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi, the Chairman of the Planning Committee for the 60th anniversary celebration of the then Brong-Ahafo …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has given his assent to the amended Minerals and Mining Act that seeks to deter and prescribes stiffer punishment for people engaged in illegal mining. The new law enhances the penalties for illegal mining activities, otherwise known as “galamsey”, and explicitly criminalizes any kind of  …