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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has given the assurance that Customers of collapsed microfinance institutions, savings and loans companies would start receiving their monies very soon. Delivering his state of the Nation address in Parliament on Thursday, the President said, GH¢5 billion would be released by the government to settle …

In July 2016 Ghana amended the 1962 law on registration of companies – the Companies Act 1962, and the amended law includes a clause on beneficial ownership. That action, making disclosure of beneficial ownership of companies has improved the country’s standing on the recently released Financial Secrecy Index by the …

Some angry Sissala Youth have barricaded the offices of the Forestry Commission in Tumu demanding the immediate transfer of the staff for their alleged involvement in rosewood business. The youth alleged some officials of the Tumu office of the Forestry Commission were in collusion with the latest harvest of rosewood …

A Greater Accra Regional Dialogue on ending Saiko in Ghana was held in Accra on Wednesday with a resolve of the stakeholders to support state regulators on ending Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) fishing practices. The fishers also expressed the need for the state to use the law to stop …

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has launched two new innovations to help improve medical care for children and help further reduce child mortality in the country. The innovations are Point of Care (POC), a technics for early infant diagnosis of HIV among children and the Scaling Pneumonia Responses Innovation (SPRINT) …

The Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOGSAG) on Wednesday fixed March 3 to embark on a nationwide strike to demand 15 per cent of interim premium from government. Mr Isaac Bampoe Addo, the CLOGSAG Executive Secretary, at a press conference in Accra, urged all members of the …

The European Union (EU), in collaboration with the Ministry of Gender, Children, and Social Protection and Expertise France, has launched a regional project to support the fight against human trafficking. The project, dubbed: “Support the fight against human trafficking in the states of the Gulf of Guinea,” is co-funded by …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said the distribution of cashew and palm seedlings under the Planting for Food and Jobs programme was to diversify the economy from its known cash crops for major dividend. He said the Tree Crop Development Authority law was therefore promulgated to take care of …

The Bank of Ghana is promoting a set of Sustainable Banking Principles for the banking industry, which requires them to ensure gender equity in their own organizations as well as gender-inclusive financial service delivery. The Bank is also currently taking steps to collect data from financial institutions on a gender-disaggregated …

Ms Sarah Afful, the Central Regional Director of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) has given the assurance that Government is working assiduously to redeem its pledge to fix the country’s economy. She said the country needed “a healthy macro economy” in order to attract and retain the right investments to …