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 shown. The data indicates a drop of 0.9 per cent in the base rate from the month-...
The National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA), has reduced its exorbitant informal sector scheme registration fees from GHC5,000.00 to GHC1,000.00 to attract and encourage high participation of...
Ken Ofori Atta, on his appointment as finance minister, was faced with questions that are always posed by doubters. Many analysts or panelists actually exaggerated the difficulties he will face as a...
A Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr. Carlos Ahenkorah, says Ghana, a signatory to the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement is too small a country to have two Single Window operators. He has,...
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has warned financial institutions to discontinue charging Value Added Tax (VAT) on financial services. Acting GRA Commissioner-General, Emmanuel Kofi Nti, in a...
Deputy Executive Director of the African Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), Benjamin Boakye has noted that, the power purchase agreements signed under the former National Democratic Congress (NDC)...
The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) is urging government implementing the provisions in the Petroleum (Exploration and Production) Act, 2016 Act 919, with emphasis on the award of oil...
President Akufo-Addo has noted that if Ghana is to make any meaningful change in the lives of the people, her efforts must be directed at agriculture, as the majority of people can only feel a change...
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has given traders around the Circle Interchange, two weeks ultimatum to relocate to the Pedestrian Shopping Mall. The traders have expressed their anger at the...
The Minority in Parliament has alleged that, Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta sold the ninety five percent of Ghana’s recent 2.25 billion dollar bond to friends and cronies. They have therefore...
The Acting Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Emmanuel Kofi Nti, has written to all banks operating in Ghana to discontinue forthwith the charging of taxes on financial...
Tax cut is intended to some relieves to financial institutions The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has discontinued the 17.5% Value Added Tax (VAT) imposed the on financial service in the country....
Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) is setting up a database of investment opportunities and investible assets in the country. It will be made available to both investors and potential investors...
As the global recovery has taken firmer hold, gradual US interest rate increases are unlikely to roil world markets or cause undue problems for policymakers, a top Federal Reserve official said...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Wednesday, April 19, 2017, launched the “Planting for Food and Jobs” programme at Goaso, in the Brong Ahafo Region. According to him, the programme is...
The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) is in support of government’s plan to sell a majority of its stake in the Volta River Authority (VRA). Speaking to Citi News, the Executive Director of...
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has been asked to resign over allegations of conflict of interest in the issuance of the $2.25bn bond. The NDC Minority MPs in Parliament have found him guilty by for...
Government has announced plans to construct a warehouse in each of the 216 districts in the country to support the 'Planting for Food and Jobs campaign' which was launched at Goaso in the Brong Ahafo...
The President, Akufo-Addo today launched one of his government's biggest Agricultural sector intervention which he hopes will prevent any food shortages in the country. The project, "Planting for...
Chinese investors in Oman on Wednesday laid the first stone of an industrial zone in the sultanate's southern port town of Duqm under a $10.7-billion (10-billion-euro) development plan. Chinese...
