Students Loan To Go Up By 50%
Government, will from the beginning of the next academic year –2017/2018, increase the amount of loans that tertiary students are eligible to take for a period of two semesters, by 50%. Currently,...
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Financial Sector Needs An Ombudsman
Dr. Kobby Mensah, marketing lecturer at the University of Ghana Business School says Parliament should consider the setting up of a financial Ombudsman with the legal powers to mediate between...
Contractors Owed GHc1.3bn – Report
Contractors engaged by government for the execution of various projects across the country are owed GH¢1.3 billion as at December 2016, the Parliamentary Select Committee on Works and Housing report...
Energy Bank CEO Wins Award For Women Development
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Energy Bank, Christiana Olaoye, has been awarded for her contributions to the welfare of females in Africa. Dubbed, ‘Hero of Women & Child...
CFAO, Societe Generale Ghana Launch ‘Ride In Style’
Societe General Ghana have partnered car distributors CFAO Ghana to launch a finance offer to enable members of the public to purchase brand new vehicles. The ‘Ride in Style’ finance offer is to...
Bank Savings Accounts Are Not Investment Accounts
Savings consists of the amount left over when the cost of a person's consumer expenditure is subtracted from the amount of disposable income he earns in a given period of time, according to Keynesian...
Peg Banks Recapitalization At GHS500m To Urge Mergers
Some financial analysts are not hopeful the reported recapitalization of about 250 million cedis yet to be announced by the Bank of Ghana will cause mergers to reduce the number of banks in the...
Ghana To Lead Cashew Production In Eight Years
Mr Collins Ntim, Deputy Minister for Local Government and Rural Development has hinted of plans by government to position the country as the leading producer of cashew in eight years. Cote D’Ivoire...
SEC Petitioned To Probe Ofori-Atta Over $2.25bn Bond
The Dynamic Youth Movement of Ghana (DYMOG) has petitioned the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) over a $2.25 billion bond issued by the government. DYMOG wants the Commission’s Hearing and...
Volumes of Trade To Rise Above Last Week’s Level
Trading activity in terms of volumes on the stock market increased by 95.82% in the week under review as volumes of shares traded scaled up by 2,052,976. Further, the total values of shares traded...
AngloGold Maintains Full-Year Guidance
AngloGold Ashanti has said it has set new safety records and achieved its first-ever March quarter without a fatal accident, as it reported operating results for the three months to 31 March 2017....
Pension Contributions To Be Paid Via Mobile Money
Employees in Ghana’s informal sector have been given a flexible opportunity to enroll on a Pension Scheme. The move is not only to secure their future but also to help rope more people into the...
Gold Coast Financial Holding CEO
Chief Executive of Gold Coast Financial Holding, Mr. Kwame Ofori Asomaning, has called on government to significantly invest in building real assets and productive capacity of the economy, and...
MoFA Embarks On Outreach For ‘Planting For Food and Jobs’ Programme
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), has began a sensitisation programme to engage stakeholders and Farmer-Based Organisations (FBOs) on government’s ‘Planting For Food and Jobs’...
Ghana Rated Among the Best Aviation Spots In Africa
Ghana is one of the best aviation regions in West Africa, that according to International Air Transport Association (IATA). The country carries the second highest number of passengers in West Africa...
Defaulter of Insurance Recapitalization To Lose License By Mid 2017
All but one of the fifty insurance companies have met the new minimum capital requirement set by the National Insurance Commission (NIC). As a result, the company has until June 2017 to recapitalize...
Government To Accelerate Regional Airports Expansion – Aviation Minister
Government is keen on accelerating the expansion of other regional airports to ease the pressure on Kotoka and boost domestic economic activity, Aviation Minister, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, has said. She...
Weak Agro-Chemical Control Life-Threatening – CropLife
The absence of strong regulations on the importation and use of agro-chemicals poses a threat to human life and food security, CropLife Africa Middle East (AME), a regional federation representing...
Ghana Rated Among the Best Aviation Hub In Africa
Ghana is one of the best aviation regions in West Africa, that according to International Air Transport Association (IATA). The country carries the second highest number of passengers in West Africa...
We’ll Empower Customs To Check Dumping – Deputy Trade Minister
A Deputy Trade and Industry Minister, Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah, has indicated that the government is working to curtail the influx of cheap, substandard goods into the country on the domestic market...