The Minister of Finance, Mr. Seth Terkper, will next week present to Parliament the "Expenditure in Advance of the Appropriation, January to March 2017. The Minister is also expected to update the...
Dr Mahamadu Bawumia, an economist, has challenged recent assertions by President John Mahama and Finance Minister Seth Terkper that international ratings agency Moody’s upgraded Ghana recently. The...
Government has raised a total of 96.4 million dollars in its first local dollar denominated bond at a rate of 6.0 percent. Total bids were 99.6 million dollars but government accepted 96.4 million...
The Director in-charge of fundraising for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) 2016 presidential campaign, Ken Ofori-Atta, has backed the party’s proposal to cut down taxes on businesses when voted into...
Ghana has witnessed significant economic decline over the past five years with weak real Gross Domestic Growth (GDP), Dr Eric Osei-Assibey, an economist, has stated. Making a presentation on the...
The Chief Executive Officer of Progeny Ventures, and Executive Chairman of Global Access, Dr. Kofi Amoah, has called for a public policy that mandates commercial banks to commit a specific percentage...
Attempts by the central bank to hem in inflation continue to yield less than satisfactory results, as a 0.3percent rise in September appears to confirm the Statistical Service’s suspicion that...
The Association of Oil Marketing Companies (AOMCs) is pushing for a tighter entry criteria for new entrants into the industry. This is to help control the influx of OMCs into the downstream petroleum...
Trouble that hover around credit to smallholder farmers, who constitute about 85% of the agricultural workforce, linger on as a major challenge affecting the growth of the sector in the country, a...
The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI), has revealed plans to merge the Ghana Supply Commission, and the Ghana National Procurement Authority into one National Procurement Company (NPC). This is...
Inflation rate for the month of September hit 17.2 per cent compared to the 16.9 per cent recorded in August 2016. This represents a 0.3 per cent increase from the previous one in August. However,...
The Ghana Cement Manufacturers Association (GCMA) has called on the government to regulate the importation of cement to protect the local cement industry from collapse. According to the GCMA, the...
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has reviewed upwards, the producer price of cocoa from GH?6,720.00 per tonne to GH?7,520 per tonne for the 2016/2017 season. A statement issued in Accra and copied to...
Ghanaian farmers will soon benefit from the import of cheap fertilizer from the Dangote Group of companies in Nigeria, as the firm constructs the biggest fertilizer plant in the world located in...
The Minister of Trades and Industry, Ekow Spio-Garbrah has explained that prices of cement in the country have reduced appreciably due to moves by government to boost competition in the sector....
The aggrieved customers of DKM Microfinance in Tamale, seeking an injunction over payments scheduled for next week Monday , have abandoned the move to hit the courts. The customers, on Monday ,...
President John Dramani Mahama has assured the people of the Dangbe West District in the Greater Accra Region that his second term will see the establishment of an agri-business zone in the district...
The Flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, yesterday promised the setting up of a consultative council that would constantly engage with business and industry...
A former president of the Association of Ghana Industries , Dr. Prince Kofi Kludjeson, has made a strong case for a revision of the country’s Companies Code. In his view, the current legislation...
The Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Ekwow Spio Garbrah has told Citi Business News Ghana does not possess the capacity yet to provide the needed quantity of cement to satisfy the country’s...
