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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...

Business

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...

Headlines

Homeless Girl Scouts Highlight NY Housing Crisis

The Girl Scouts who meet every Friday in a New York hotel could be any other American youngsters learning life skills,...

Headlines

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...

Headlines

Thai Red Bull Heir Threatened With Arrest After Latest No-Show

Thai prosecutors vowed Thursday to seek the first arrest warrant for the heir to the Red Bull fortune after he dodged...

News

Probe Tax Waivers Granted Chinese Company

Ghanaian civil society groups within the tax space have urged Parliament to investigate tax waivers granted a China...

International

US, Canada and Mexico To Renegotiate NAFTA

US President Donald Trump has told the leaders of Mexico and Canada that he will not pull out of the North American...

Business

IFS Cautions Government To Restrain Expenditure

Unhappy with the tight fiscal space government is confronted with, economic Policy Think- Tank, the Institute for...

Business

IFS Cautions Government On Expenditure

Unhappy with the tight fiscal space government is confronted with, economic Policy Think-Tank, the Institute for Fiscal...

Business

15 Year Energy Bond Timely For Banks’ Rising NPLs – CAL Bank MD

Banks are optimistic of significant improvement in their non-performing loan portfolios as government initiates moves...

Business

Banks Write Off GHC175 Million

Bank's total provision for the first two months still remained high, according to the latest Banking Sector Report....

Business

Banks Write Off GHc175m

Banks total provision for the first two months still remained high, according to the latest Banking Sector Report....

News

Ibrahim Mahama’s Companies To Pay GHC12.4m In Two Weeks

MBG Ltd. and Holman Brothers Ghana Ltd., both owned by Mr Ibrahim Mahama, brother of ex-president John Mahama, are to...

Headlines

Airbag Maker Takata Shares Plunge Nearly 20% On Bankruptcy Report

Takata shares dropped nearly 20 percent on Thursday after a media report said the embattled Japanese airbag maker was...

Business

Consumption of Aviation Fuel Up By 18%

Last year, consumption of aviation turbine kerosene (ATK), the fuel used by aircraft, rose by 17.9 per cent to 140,272...

Headlines

United Cuts Overbooking, Hikes Compensation After Passenger Fiasco

United Airlines on Thursday announced it will offer bumped passengers up to $10,000 in compensation and reduce...

Entertainment

Sarkodie Is In France and He’s Been Meeting the Big Men

Rapper Sarkodie missed his mother’s 60th birthday party which happened on Friday, April 21 in Accra. Many asked why...

International

Asian Markets Go Into Reverse With Questions Over Trump Tax Plan

Asian markets took a step back Thursday after a four-day rally, tracking a weak lead from Wall Street, as traders...

News

Kenney Agyapong Collapsing Akufo-Addo Government

The overzealousness on the part of some state institutions to please legislator, Kennedy Agyapong, has yet again...