Entrepreneur, Media Personality, Public Relations practitioner and Made-in Ghana advocate, Kobi Hemaa Osisiadan Bekoe has been adjudged the 2019 Television Personality at the just ended Ghana Leadership Awards. Her award was characterized by recommendations from revered and high profile personalities who have followed her consistency in exhibiting high standards and promoting Made-in-Ghana goods. Cut to […]
Mobile Telecommunications giant, MTN is distributing some 250 hampers to mothers and their children born within the Christmas period across the country. The annual ritual which was instituted in 2011 starting with the Korlebu Teaching Hospital in the Greater Accra Region was expanded to cover Kumasi in the Ashanti Region, Takoradi in the Western Region […]
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has destroyed 802 cartons of expired Lucozade energy drink at the Kpone landfill site. Speaking to the Ghana News Agency, Mr James Lartey, Head of Communication and Public Education, FDA, noted that the Authority, in September this year, had information about a company named Andiana Royal Ventures at Lapaz, […]
Former UBS trader, Kweku Adoboli, has bemoaned the high cost of financial transaction in Ghana. He has suggested more efficient electronic financial systems that will enable the country to compete in the global market. The investment manager and former stock trader, who has been living in Ghana for a year, after his deportation from the […]
AngloGold Ashanti Ghana Limited has poured its first gold from the Obuasi Gold Mine. This signals the successful redevelopment of the mine into a modern, mechanised mining operation since mining activities were suspended five years ago. The Obuasi Redevelopment Project, which seeks to access Obuasi’s 30-million-ounce ore body over the next two decades and beyond, […]
The Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications is demanding evidence of an allegation by Communications Minister, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, that telcos hid GHC300 million taxes from the state between 2015 and the first quarter of 2017. At a press conference recently, the Communications Minister alleged that prior to the implementation of the common platform for the real-time monitoring […]
Ivory Coast and Ghana’s move to combat farmer poverty with a living income premium for their cocoa sales is being undermined by chocolate makers scaling down purchases and negotiating discounts on other parts of the price, sources said. Confectioners publicly backed a move by the two countries, which together account for 60% of global cocoa […]
“This is nonsensical and madness,” Roads Minister, Kwasi Amoako-Atta fumed on Wednesday when he led a team to the Airport residential area Wednesday. The Minister led the team to demolish a concrete barricade erected by some Turkish developers who are putting up a 22-storey building in the area. He also called for the arrest of […]
Founder and Leader of the Zoe Outreach Embassy, Pastor Kelvin Kwesi Kobiri, was on Monday violently attacked by some disgruntled customers of his investment company, Zoe investments. Pastor Kobiri had arrived at the premises of the Tarkwa Circuit Court to respond to a suit against him for allegedly issuing three dud cheques. However, the judge […]
A total of $1.9 billion has been generated into the economy through activities related to the “Year of Return”. The Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Mrs Barbara Oteng-Gyasi, said the “Year of Return” programme had also brought about an increase of over 200,000 in total arrivals into the country. She said total arrivals in […]
Staff of the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) have suspended their sit-down strike. The staff were protesting the operational challenges of the company linked to the indebtedness of some companies to GRIDCo. A joint statement issued by the company said “following a Joint Standing Committee meeting of the Management and Staff Groups of the Ghana Grid […]
Chief Executive Officer of Springfield Exploration and Production (SEP) Limited, Kevin Okyere has expressed gratitude to the company’s partners including the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) for a successful oil find off the coast of Ghana. The Company has officially announced the successful find of 1.5 billion barrels of oil with prospects of more oil […]
