The Samira Empowerment for Humanitarian Project (SEHP) has built the capacities of 70 traders from some market centres in Accra in business development skills to give them sustainable livelihoods. The beneficiaries were drawn from the Agbogbloshie, Okaishie, Abossey Okai markets and surrounding communities. They were taught proper financial management, bookkeeping, savings and long-term investment plan […]
Ghana will host the African Development Bank’s next Annual Meetings in May 2021, it was announced Thursday, at the end of the Group’s 2020 meetings. The 2021 meetings will take place in the country’s capital city, Accra. Côte d’Ivoire’s Planning Minister Niale Kaba handed over the baton to Ghana, announcing that the Board of Governors […]
The Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development (MoFAD) through its programme “Aquaculture for Food and Jobs”, has expanded the country’s fish ponds from 3,915 in 2015 to 4,925 in 2019. Similarly, the Ministry has also increased the country’s cages from 7,607 in 2015 to 10,102 in 2019. This was made known by the Coordinator of […]
The former Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has lauded the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP)’s One District One Factory initiative. According to him, he had no idea how impactful the initiative would be to the people of the Central region, especially farmers, fishers, and factory workers. “We took the 1D1F for […]
The National Lottery Authority (NLA) would receive an unprecedented financial commitment of Thirty Million Ghana Cedis from the licensing of KGL Technology Limited for the year 2020. This achievement is breathtaking and unprecedented in the annals of the Authority. The ability of the National Lottery Authority (NLA) and KGL Technology Limited to raise Thirty Million […]
Government has issued the budget guidelines for the 2021-2024 fiscal period, which will facilitate the preparation of the 2021 budget by Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) as well as Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs). Importantly, the guidelines reveal the key fiscal targets for 2021 as well. However, with general elections scheduled for the end […]
Following the successful implementation of Mobile Money Payment Interoperability by the Akufo-Addo government, about fifteen (15) million Ghanaians essentially have bank accounts, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said. Addressing youth wing of the governing New Patriotic Party in Accra on Wednesday August 12, 2020, Vice President Bawumia explained that with the triangular feature which […]
The Management of the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) has rebutted claims by former President John Dramani Mahama that government has put the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) up for sale. The former President who is also the flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) made the allegations on a social media platform known as […]
The inter-agency Taskforce on foreign retail trade set up by Government to enforce compliance of trade regulations on foreigners engaged in retail business in the country will commence its operations today. Consequently, all foreign retail shops closed by Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) for flouting Section 27 of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) […]
To stop the illegal adjustments of scales used to weigh cocoa beans at sheds (cocoa purchasing and weighing points) run by Licenced Buying Companies (LBCs), the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) will distribute tamper-proof electronic sealable weighing scales to LBCs. The new electronic scales were recommended by the Ghana Standards Authority, following an inspection of the […]
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has directed all public agencies to source garments, textiles and vehicles from domestic producers in the country. Speaking at the unveiling of the first Volkswagen assembled vehicles on Monday, 3rd August 2020, President Akufo-Addo explained that when COVID-19 reared its head in Ghana, one of the […]
Chief Executive of the Private Enterprises Federation, Nana Osei Bonsu says government has not done enough to help lessen the impact of COVID-19 on private businesses. Nana Osei Bonsu who was speaking on the Townhall Talk Show on Asaase Radio99.5 argued that businesses in Ghana have not received adequate support to aid them survive the […]
