President Akufo-Addo has urged the governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to take a second look at the current prevailing interest rate.
For him, the over 20 per cent rate banks lend to individuals and entities is on the high side and discourage many from venturing into a productive busi ...
A total of 1,719 vehicles that were confiscated by the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) between 2015 and 2017, and auctioned by the authority cannot be accounted for, the 2018 Auditor-General’s Report has revealed.
Additionally, the report indicated that while ...
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has cautioned government to reduce its appétit for borrowing in the financial market.
The Institute says despite the consistent reduction in the monetary policy rate and inflation, lending rates are still on a high side thereby recording a sl ...
It is an explosion waiting to happen. Several consumers of autogas and cooking gas cylinders in Obuasi and its environs were seen violating all the safety norms associated with the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinder usage.
Cooking gas cylinders were spotted being transported i ...
The Ghana Union of Traders’ Association (GUTA) has warned its members to desist from attacking foreign retailers.
This comes barely 24 hours after some Ghanaian traders at Opera Square in Accra, besieged shops belonging to Nigerians and locked them up.
The move was to forcefull ...
The Tema Oil Refinery has said that the GHS186 million it incurred as a loss in the first four months of the year was not due to trading or transactional activities.
Reacting to media reports about the loss, a statement from TOR said the amount was as a result of financial interes ...
Some members of the Ghana Electrical Dealers Association (GEDA) on Monday, locked up shops owned by foreigners at the Opera Square in Accra.
This action, which resulted in a standoff, has seen leadership of the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) and the Nigerian Union of Tr ...
The Koforidua Branch of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has recovered a total of Gh¢ 5.1 million as arrears from employers who had not paid contributions for their workers since January this year.
The exercise formed part of a massive inspection and compli ...
Eighteen (18) entrepreneurs from the Upper West Region have been selected to benefit from the government’s flagship "National Entrepreneur and Innovation Programme NEIP".
They are part of the 12,000 entrepreneurs, nationwide, to receive a one-month entrepreneurship training design ...
Dr Manfred B. Ewool, Senior Research Scientist and Maize Breeder at the Crops Research Institute (CRI) has said that the Institute, with support from the World Food Programme, has targeted about 7,500 farmers for the production and dissemination of the newly introduced vitamin 'A' ye ...
