The United Kingdom-Ghana Chamber of Commerce (UKGCC) will host a multi-sector business trip to Accra next month for British companies, investors, exporters, importers and small and medium-scale...
The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) has criticised the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) for neglecting its consumers. Staff of the power distribution company have been on a series of...
The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) has urged the government of Ghana to pursue its agenda of introducing reforms to the management of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to make it more...
The national tripartite committee has increased the daily minimum wage from GHC8 to GHC8.80. The 10 percent increment takes effect from January 2017. The decision was taken today, September 7, 2016...
A marginal increase in the exports of agricultural products in 2015 helped to push up total earnings of Non- Traditional Exports (NTEs) to US$2.52 billion. The 2015 figure represents an increase of...
The $1.5 billion Tema port expansion project which is expected to start from October 1 is expected to be completed by the 4th quarter of 2019 and anticipated to create over 5,000 direct jobs. The...
Ghana will become energy sufficient by the end of 2017, President John Mahama has said. According to him, with the commencement of work on the Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme (TEN) fields in addition to...
Investors’ worries over government’s spending bill this year has heightened amid uncertainty over the International Monetary Fund (IMF) three-year budgetary support deal with the country, reports...
Consumers of petroleum products will have to stomach the burden of paying the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) Debt Recovery Levy for at least another 10 years as debt owed by the country’s sole oil...
The runway of the Ho Airport, a new regional airport in the Volta Region, is expected to be completed for the inaugural flight in November, Transport Minister Fifi Kwetey has said. “The first part...
The Ministry of Power, the Public Utilities Workers Union (PUWU) and the Millennium Development Authority (MIDA), have agreed to outline a roadmap to address concerns raised by PUWU in connection to...
The ARB Apex bank has said it is engaging the Ministry of Finance to review the taxes on rural banks, following the hike in corporate taxes from 8 percent to 25 percent. Act 896, of the recently...
Ghana has moved from solely relying on hydro- power to thermal and is now exploring other sources of energy including solar, wind and waste-to-power, Deputy Power Minister John Jinapor has said....
Government has approved the construction of a 24-inch-diameter 290-kilometre Onshore Pipeline estimated to cost about $500 million from Aboadze in the Western Region to Tema in the Greater Accra...
Staff of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) say moves by government to involve a private investor in power distribution will do little to change the often cited inefficiency of the process....
The National Labour Commission (NLC) has initiated legal action against the Government and Hospital Pharmacists’ Association (GHOSPA) for embarking on strike while negotiations were ongoing over...
WestBlue Consulting has adopted Guaranty Trust Bank’s safe, strong and robust payments and collections channels; the GTPay, GTCollect and Bank *737# to provide payments for Import Declaration Forms...
Construction works on the $1.5billion Tema Port expansion project is expected to commence on the 1st October 2016. The project, which is the biggest investment of the almost 70yrs history of the...
Star Microinsurance Services in collaboration with Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development has begun the second phase of the Fishermen Life Insurance Scheme (FLIS) from the landing beaches...
Ghana’s finance minister hopes to tap international capital markets for the fourth time in as many years, but dismissed concerns that government spending and borrowing ahead of elections increased...
