Oil Price Tumbles To Five-Month Low
The oil price has fallen to a five-month low as investor concerns resurface about a worldwide glut. Brent crude dropped by more than $2 on Thursday to below $49 a barrel, hitting its lowest level...
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High NPLs Threaten BoG Minimum Capital Drive
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has said the new central bank governor, Dr. Ernest Addison, must ensure the issue of high non-performing loans within the banking industry is dealt with...
MTN Cautions Against Giving Mobile Money Pin Code To ‘fake Staff’
MTN Ghana’s Head of Mobile Money, Eli Hini, has cautioned customers against giving out their Mobile Money PIN code to persons who call them on phone and claim to be a staff of the company. He was...
African Central Banks Urged To Work Towards Monetary Policy Credibility
The second deputy governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Dr. Johnson P. Asiama, has charged African central banks to ensure monetary policy credibility by removing all technical and political...
NDC Metro Mass Debt Reports A Diversionary Tactic
The National Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Adams, believes reports of a debt owed the Metro Mass Transit Limited by the NDC are a distraction from pertinent issues of...
Government Raps Entrepreneurs On Sound Business Innovations
Government has reiterated its strong will to ease the pressure on businesses and make them well positioned to drive job and wealth creation. Addressing a gathering of entrepreneurs, corporate...
Africa’s CEOs Confident of Growth – PwC
Notwithstanding the current economic and socio-political uncertainty, numerous companies in Africa are still positive about the growth potential of the continent. PwC research across the continent...
Police Arrest 3 Mobile Money Fraudsters
Three mobile money fraudsters have been arrested by the police. The three suspects were apprehended on April 20, 2017 after MTN Ghana officials shared a tip-off with the police in Accra. The arrests...
Government’s Snail Pace Payment of Arrears Will Frustrate NHIS – Chamber of Pharmacy
Out of 12 months arrears in indebtedness under the NHIS, government has only paid for a month The Chamber of Pharmacy Ghana has expressed disgust about what it described as government’s snail’s...
The 5 Ws of Air Travel
I believe I can fly: The 5 Ws of air travel The five Ws of air travel Ghana Airways. This is probably the most popular airline to many Ghanaians both young and old. So much that many didn’t know...
Oil Prices Have Plunged 15% In 3 Weeks
Renewed fears about the oil supply glut have sent crude prices plunging 15% Renewed fears about the oil supply glut have sent crude prices plunging 15% from their peak in mid-April to $45.52 a barrel...
Ghana Rises To 4th Position
Despite having a 31.7 per cent decline in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) projects in 2016, with weak economic growth in recent years, Ghana, West Africa’s second largest economy remains a key FDI...
Does Intellectual Property Rights System Work In Ghana?
The Police Service is responsible for enforcing IPRs “Does that “thing” work in Ghana? I mean that Intellectual Property thing”, my friend Dzifa asked me innocently. I smiled. It was not an...
SSNIT Ignores Debtors Owing GHC477m
The new management of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), appears disinterested in a whopping GH¢477.3 million loan it granted to eight public and private institutions and...
Dangote CEO Wins Building and Construction Industry Award
Mr Tor Nygard, Chief Executive Officer of Dangote Cement Ghana Limited has been awarded the building and construction Chief Executive of the year 2016 at the Ghana Entrepreneur and Corporate...
High Cost of Computer Software In Ghana
The American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) has bemoaned the unduly high cost of computer software in Ghana, saying the development is increasing the taste for pirated software. The Chamber in a press...
SSNIT Ignores Ghc477.3m Debtors
The new management of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), appears disinterested in a whopping GH¢477.3 million loan it granted to eight public and private institutions and...
Dr. Anane-Antwi Advises CPC Workers
A former Director General(DG) of the Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC), Dr. Adu Anane-Antwi has urged the management and workers of the Ghana Cocoa Processing Company (CPC) to work at improving...
KPMG’s Audits of Rolls-Royce Accounts Probed By Regulator
Britain's accountancy watchdog has opened an investigation into KPMG's audit of the accounts of aero-engine maker Rolls-Royce. The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) will probe the accountancy giant's...
Delist Cocoa Processing Company From Stock Market
Workers of the Cocoa Processing Company(CPC) have appealed to government to delist the company from the Ghana Stock Exchange(GSE) due to its dwindling performance over the years. According to them,...