Articles by Kofi Asante
Bill To Regulate Gas Industry In the Offing
The Ministry of Energy is currently in the process of developing a Gas Bill and intends to submit it to Parliament for...
Taxi Unions To Protest Unfair Competition By Uber
Taxi unions in the country have given government a 4-day ultimatum to force Uber services to comply with all...
3000 Ghost Names Detected On Youth Employment Payroll
The management of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) has detected some 2,999 ghost names on the Agency’s payroll,...
Government Bans Mining Around Water Bodies
Government has totally banned mining around water bodies in the country. The move, according to government, is to...
MTN Collaborates With Ghana Police and E-Crime Bureau To Fight Mobile Money Fraud
MTN Ghana, in collaboration with Ghana Police Service and e-Crime Bureau, has held a day’s workshop for 40 police...
Procurement Strategy Needed – Expert
The absence of a national procurement strategy could defeat the purpose of the Public Procurement Act 2003 (Act 663),...
Coral Paints Rewards First Car Winner In ‘PAINT YOUR DREAM INTO REALITY’ Promotion
A 32-year-old man from the Volta Region has won the first of six brand new cars at stake in the ‘PAINT YOUR DREAM...
Bankers Laud Debt Re-Profiling Move
Bankers have expressed satisfaction with the first 100 days of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government,...
Financial Institutions Asked To Cease Charging VAT On Financial Services
The NPP government has with immediate effect, through the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) abolished the Value Added Tax...
BoG Plans Implementation of Key Financial Regulations
The Bank of Ghana (BOG) has urged financial institutions and stakeholders within the industry to embrace regulatory...
Gov’t To Give Between $5,000 and $5 Million To Ghanaians To Start Factories In Districts
Ghanaians seeking to establish factories under the government’s One District, One Factory programme are to receive...
Government Unveils National Policy Summit
The Ministry of Information has launched a national policy summit aimed at regularly informing the public on detailed...
Kumasi City Mall Finally Opens Today
The Kumasi City Mall has finally been commissioned for business today attracting hundreds of residents within the...
IMF Projects 71.7% Debt-To-GDP Ratio For Ghana This Year
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Ghana will end the year without making significant progress in reducing its...
Stop Charging VAT On Financial Services – GRA Orders Financial Institutions
The Ghana Revenue Authority has directed financial institutions to immediately desist from charging VAT on financial...
Local Engineers Take Charge of Ghana Gas
Local engineers at the Ghana National Gas Company (Ghana Gas) have finally taken over technical operations of the...
‘Secrecy’ About $2.25bn Bond Unhelpful – Ken Thompson
Following allegations of conflict of interest against the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta, relating to the recent...
IMF Backs Ghana’s Domestic Borrowing Drive To Check Ballooning Debts
Government’s decision to turn to the domestic market for loans to finance key projects has received the support of...
Ghana Cannot Contain Two Single Window Operators
A Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr. Carlos Ahenkorah has observed that Ghana as a country and signatory to the...
Banking Industry Average Base Rate Falls To 26.7 Per Cent
The banking industry average base rate as at the end of March stood at 26.7 per cent, data from the Bank of Ghana has...