Since assuming office in 2017, our Finance Minister,Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, has used various schemes and strategies to enrich and empower his financial empire and impoverish other companies seen as his competitors or not aligned to his party, the New Patriotic Party.It started with the granting of juicy state contracts to his firm, Databank at the […]
GCB Bank has laid off 56 staff on grounds that they do not possess the minimum qualification required to work with the bank, but the affected workers allege unfair treatment. An ongoing employee audit of employees inherited from UT and Capital banks raised issues with the minimum qualification of about 160 staff. The bank has […]
The government through MoFA has introduced a new electronic coding and traceability technique in a bid to monitor government’s fertiliser subsidy programme and farming inputs. The new service requires that every farmer who wants to benefit from the subsidy has to be biometrically registered, and only farmers who have already registered can have access to […]
The Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), following an earlier publication by BestNewsGH.com about officials of Customs and Immigration turning themselves into nuisance by begging for money from passengers and other users of the Kotoka International Airport, has set up a taskforce to investigate the matter. The Authority in a press release in reaction to the […]
Mobile telecommunications giant MTN has held its annual blood donation exercise with a call on the generality of the Ghanaian people to endeavor to donate blood as regularly as possible to save lives. Chief Executive Officer of the Company, Selorm Adadevor in an address opined that the company has been able to collect some 9,500 […]
The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the German-African Business Association (Afrika-Verein) to co-operate with the objective of fostering bilateral trade and investment between Germany and Ghana. Both sides under the MoU will among other things, agree to regularly identify specific projects to be pushed and supported by […]
The Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), following an earlier publication by BestNewsGH.com about officials of Customs and Immigration turning themselves into nuisance by begging for money from passengers and other users of the Kotoka International Airport, has set up a taskforce to investigate the matter. The Authority in a press release in reaction to the […]
By Elvis DARKO, Accra Ghana is among 23 countries the European Commission (EC) has labelled as having strategic deficiencies in their anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing frameworks. According to a statement issued on Wednesday by the EC, the aim of the list is to protect the EU financial system by better preventing money laundering and […]
By John Elliot HAGAN, Accra The National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (NEIP) is calling on prospective applicants or businesses to enter applications for Window 2 of the NEIP Presidential Business Support Programme (PBSP). The Window 2 application seeks to provide co-ordinated support to businesses in Ghana in terms of training, business advisory services, incubation support, […]
Norwegian oil company, Aker says its exploration start-up in Ghana will submit development plans to Ghanaian authorities in March and the parent will then decide whether to sell stakes via an initial public offering or other means. The subsidiary, Aker Energy, plans to develop the deepwater Pecan field off Ghana. “Depending on the approval process […]
Ghana’s Minister of Works and Housing, Samuel Atta Akyea, on Tuesday February 12, 2019 commissioned a Rapid Housing Technology in Accra. Commissioning a 3-bedroom house model constructed within 11 days using the Rapid Housing Technology, Hon. Atta Akyea, said the technology is a game changer in the housing industry in Ghana which will help wipe […]
By Herbert BOAKYE YIADOM, Accra Aggrico Solar is partnering the Ghana Commercial Agriculture Project (GCAP) to conduct a pilot test on the use of solar-powered irrigation systems on some selected vegetable farms across the country. The project will be undertaken at the Kukobila Nasia Farms for the northern sector and the Anyako Farms for the […]
