economy
Ghana Gas Deals Tough With Striking Workers
Four workers of the Ghana National Gas Company (Ghana Gas) have been sacked for going on strike illegally. The...
Kenya Will Deny Water, Electricity and Phone Bills Debtors Loan Come 2017
Failure to pay electricity, water and telephone bills could now land Kenyans on the list of defaulters at the credit...
Nigeria Forex Crisis and Unfinished Naira-Yuan Swap Deal
Barely five months after a currency swap deal between Nigeria and China was enmeshed in controversy, the country’s...
Stock Market Trade Hits 32,649 Shares
Volume traded on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) hit 32,649 shares which were valued at GHS128,171.34 at the close of...
Tourism Minister Inaugurates Interim Creative Arts Council
The Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts has inaugurated an interim Creative Arts Council to support regulate...
Court Slashes Damages To Be Paid By Ex-Trader Kerviel
A French appeals court has slashed the amount of damages due to be paid by rogue trader Jerome Kerviel to €1m...
Expresso Workers To Protest Over 18 Months’ Unpaid Salary
Workers of telecommunication company Expresso are planning a massive protest, Wednesday, 28 September, 2016 over unpaid...
5th Tigo Changemakers Competition Launched
Tigo Ghana, in partnership with international NGO, Reach for Change, have launched its annual competition, the Tigo...
Fifi Kwetey Is A Liar and A Blockhead
Former Deputy Finance Minister and Member of Parliament for the Old Tafo, Dr. Anthony Akoto Osei has described the...
DKM Customers Dissatisfied With Repayment Plans
Government’s move to settle the longstanding grievances of clients of the DKM Microfinance Company has taken off on a...
Shipping Community Haggles Over Terminal Handling Charges
There is uneasy calm in the shipping sector between shipping lines/agents on one side and a critical mass of the...
Government Argues Banks Into Oil and Gas Funding
For the country to achieve its lofty local content goals, the financial services sector, led by the banks, would have...
BoG To Release New Guidelines On Mobile Financial Services
The Bank of Ghana is to soon come out with revised regulations on Ghana’s mobile financial service sector. It follows...
Bad Policies The Bane Of Unemployment In Ghana
Governments are instituted to enact policies to make life comfortable and easy for its citizenry. Successive...
Oasis Capital Fund To Support SMEs With US$27m
The Oasis Africa Venture Capital Fund (OAF) has been recapitalised to US$27 million with the support of new funds from...
NPP Wasteful With Foreign Loans – Fifi Kwettey
The opposition New Patriotic Party(NPP) borrowed 750 million dollars from the International Financial Market in 2007,...
TUC Vows To Force Government To Leave IMF Programs
The Secretary General of the Trades Union Congress, Dr. Yaw Baah says the Union will force government to leave IMF...
Ghana’s Inflation Doubles In 4yrs
Efforts by Managers of Ghana’s economy to arrest inflation in the past four years have proved futile as prices of...
Dangote Vows To Buy Arsenal Within Four Years
Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote has claimed that he hopes to buy Arsenal within "three to four years". The...