Ghana’s minority members of parliament have described as “lofty rhetoric,” President Akufo-Addo’s maiden State of the Nation Address, arguing it fell short of solutions to fix the so-called...
The Minority in Parliament has passed a scathingly damning verdict on President Akufo-Addo’s maiden State of the Nation Address, describing it as “high on platitudes and short of substance.”...
The government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has sacked 525 national security operatives, Haruna Iddrisu, Minority Leader and Member of Parliament for Tamale South, has said. According to...
Recent headline news on the microfinance sector is not interesting reading. Day in, day out, column inches of newspapers are filled with stories about scammers swindling hundreds of poor people of...
Indigenous bank UniBank has been named Ghana’s 6th Best Company at the 2016 Ghana Club 100 Awards. Held at the plush Kempinski Hotel in Accra, UniBank made the top list out of 100 local successful...
The 2016 Presidential nominee of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has expressed his commitment to empower the country’s informal sector if given the nod to...
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) is strengthening its licensing requirements in order to weed out unscrupulous microfinance institutions from the system. Dr Abdul-Nashiru Issahaku, the Governor of Bank of...
The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) has urged the private sector to support government’s efforts in the establishment of EXIM Bank- Ghana. Mr James Asare-Adjei, the AGI President, said the...
Finance Minister, Seth Terkper has intensified lobbying for private sector businesses to enroll onto the Ghana Export and Import bank and promote the country’s exports market. “I would want to...
The Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) is collaborating with the Ghana Real Estate Developers Association (GREDA), the umbrella body of estate developers in the country, to help reduce the incidence...
Rural banks were first established in Ghana in 1976 with the mandate to provide banking services to the rural population, provide credit facilities to small-scale farmers and businesses and to...
Ghana’s sanitation situation is in a rather appalling state and this has lingered on for years. Clean water and sanitation is the 6th of the sustainable development goals of the UN but I can...
Commercial Banks in the country are being urged not to cut or reduce lending to the public and businesses due to the rising Non-Performing Loans (NPL) which has hit Ghana’s banking sector. This is...
Telecom analyst, Fouad Chalabi has taken a swipe at government over taxes charged on telephone handsets imported into Ghana. According to him, zero tax on imported phones especially Smartphones will...
The 2016 presidential nominee of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says he is saddened by the results of this year’s West Africa Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination,...
President John Mahama has given a further indication there would be no staff lay-off at the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) after implementation of the new Millennium Compact. Compact Two, which...
The Minister of Finance, Seth Terkper has announced the approval of a $230 million scaling-up Renewable Energy Investment Plan (SREP-IP) by the Climate Investment Fund. The approval, which will allow...
Over 10,000 mineworkers across the country have lost their jobs over the past three years, the Ghana Mine Workers Union (GMWU) has stated. General Secretary of GMWU, Prince William Ankrah, made this...
Economist and Managing Director of the Ghana Growth Fund Company (GGFC), Kwame Ofori Asomaning has warned government to forfeit its austerity measures and spend to save the country form its economic...
Due to the lack of measures to mitigate the negative impact of economic factors, the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) should have done more to prevent the current levels of mismanagement...
