MoneyGram Presents First Suzuki Alto
Love Oduro, an 80-year-old retired educationist at the weekend, won the first of MoneyGram’s six Suzuki Altos as part of a grand promotion to celebrate Ghana’s 60th independence anniversary at...
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Top Lawmakers Offer Stop-Gap To Avert US Government Shutdown
US congressional leaders have introduced a stop-gap spending measure that funds federal operations through the next week, easing the threat of a government shutdown as Donald Trump marks his 100th...
World Bank Supports Sub Saharan Africa With $ 57bn
Sub- Saharan countries facing threats of famine in the near future could heave a sigh of relief as the World Bank commits 1.6 billion dollars to avert the crisis. This comes on the back of a record...
Economy Expands Slowly
A shutdown of the country’s oil and gas fields last year caused Ghana’s economy to grow at the slowest pace in 26 years. Baah Wadieh, acting government statistician, told a news conference on...
Indomie Rewards Distributors With Home Appliances
Leading Noodles brand, Indomie, has rewarded another set of distributors with top of the range home appliances. The gesture was in recognition of their loyalty to the brand and excelling in the...
US Durable Goods Orders Post Slower Rise In March
US aircraft sales forged higher in March, helping drive up orders for manufactured goods, but the pace of growth slowed from previous months, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. Total orders...
American Airlines Boosts Employee Pay As Earnings Fall
American Airlines announced an unexpected pay increase for employees even as it reported lower first-quarter earnings Thursday which it blamed on high fuel costs. Net income was $234 million, down...
Gov’t Pick-Up Sold For GHc1,000 At MoFA
The auctioneer, Alex Adjei, side-stepped all the laws governing the proper disposal of government vehicles and disposed off the vehicles, mostly double-cabin pickups, to the staff of the ministry and...
Higher Costs Hit Ford Earnings In 1st Quarter
Ford reported lower profits Thursday, citing higher commodity costs and increased investment in autonomous vehicles and other technologies. Ford chief executive Mark Fields described the quarter as...
US Jobless Benefits Claims Rise In Late April
New claims for US jobless benefits rose for the second straight week in late April but continued a record stretch of low levels, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The figures underscored the...
Encroachment On West African Gas Pipelines In Tema Worsens
Some residents of Kpone and Tema in the Greater Accra Region, seem to have thrown caution to the wind and have defiantly encroached on the right-of-way of the West African Gas Pipeline Company’s...
Day 3 of Public Accounts Committee Sitting
The Public Accounts Committee is holding its third sitting in Parliament. The committee is scrutinizing the Auditor General’s report for financial infractions of some state institutions. Headed by...
Making the One-District-One Factory Policy A Reality
The one district one factory policy vision that inspired hope of employment for the large number of the unemployed, when Ghanaians were presented with the choice of leadership in the 2016 general...
Government Pick-Up van Sold For GHc1,000
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of parliament yesterday grilled officials of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) and an auctioneer to the ministry for grossly contravening the auction...
Akufo-Addo Appoints Bright Acheampong As Deputy NYA CEO
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appointed Mr. Bright Kwabena Acheampong as Deputy Chief Executive of the National Youth Authority (NYA). Mr. Bright Acheampong is an alumnus of the...
Trump Backs Down On Border Wall Funding
Donald Trump has indicated he will scrap plans to find cash for his border wall in this week’s spending bill. The president’s close adviser, Kellyanne Conway, said funding for the wall would be...
Uber Plans To Test On-Demand Flying Cars Network By 2020
Uber has unveiled plans to partner with plane manufacturers to develop and test a network of flying cars by 2020. The ride-sharing company said it will run trials in the US city of Dallas and Dubai...
God Will Help Us Rebuild — Nduom As He Opens 2 GN Bank Branches In C/R
President and Chairman of Groupe Nduom (GN), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, has stated that asmuch as it is painful to see what he has toiled for burn to ashes, he was hopeful God will help him rebuild what...
34 Women Make President’s List of 212 DCE Nominees
Only 34 women representing about 16 percent made it to list of 212 District Chief Executive (DCE) nominees by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. The Ministry of Local Government and Rural...
Probe Tax Waivers Granted Chinese Company
Ghanaian civil society groups within the tax space have urged Parliament to investigate tax waivers granted a China Petrochemical Corporation, the SINOPEC Group, through an Engineering, Procurement,...