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International

Oil Overhang Points To Need For Extended OPEC Output Cuts

An OPEC-led production cut may well be accelerating a drawdown in global oil stocks that began last year, but...

International

Aon To Sell Benefits Outsourcing To Blackstone For $4.3 Billion

They typically seek to sell ownership of such assets at a big profit a few years after they invest. Insurance broker...

International

Trump Tax Cut Talk, Chinese Data Spur Risk Rally

European shares rose to within striking distance of their highest levels in more than a year on Friday while the dollar...

Business

Gov’t Outlines Blueprint To Grow Local Businesses

Minister designate for Business Development, Awal Ibrahim Mohammed, has indicated that government will roll out a...

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BoG Intensifies Moves To Get Funding For Agric Sector

The Bank of Ghana(BoG) has intensified moves to encourage commercial banks in the country to cede some portion of their...

Entertainment

Ghanaians In UAE Most Generous Long Distance Lovers

New data released this Valentine’s Day season by money transfer service WorldRemit shows that Ghanaians living in the...

Business

New Targets Imminent

Discussions between Ghana’s economic team and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are set to generate revised...

Business

Falling T-Bill Rates Won’t Reduce Cost of Credit

The current falling Treasury bill rates will not reflect a drop in the cost of credit in Ghana, Ecobank Research has...

Business

We’ll Make Local Firms Competitive – Ibrahim Awal

Small scale indigenous businesses in Ghana will benefit immensely from government sponsored capacity-building...

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Photos of Accident On Achimota Highway

A trailer heading towards Pokuase direction on the Accra – Nsawam Highway Thursday veered off the main road onto the...

Business

MTN Group Expect 2016 Loss Due To $1bn Nigeria Fine

South Africa-based MTN Group expects to report a full-year loss due to a $1 billion regulatory fine in Nigeria and...

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We’ve Accounted For 641 Vehicles – Kwakye Ofosu

Former Deputy Communications Minister Felix Kwakye Ofosu says the government wants to throw dust in the eyes of the...

Business

Cedi Ends January With 2.80% Depreciation Rate

The Ghana Cedi ended the first month of 2017 with a depreciation rate of 2.80 percent against the US dollar, according...

Business

Gov’t Will Increase Women Entrepreneurs To 60% By 2020

Government is set to increase women entrepreneurs to 60% by the end of its tenure in office, the Minister for Business...

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Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi Charged With International Corruption

Italian prosecutors have reportedly charged Eni and its CEO Claudio Descalzi with international corruption over the...

Business

Govt Courting IMF Sympathy To Borrow More

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolga Central, Mr Isaac Adongo, has accused the government of trying to court...

International

U.S. Air Traffic Control System ‘obsolete’

President Donald Trump lamented an out-of-date U. S. air traffic control system on Thursday and criticized a federal...

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Government Committed To IMF Deal

The government has decided to fully complete the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme, the Finance Minister, Mr...

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I’m Impotent – Administrator General

The Office of the Administrator General (OAG) is woefully under resourced, the Administrator General, David Yaro has...