Ghana’s export sector experienced a \surge in 2024, with total exports reaching GH₵294.9 billion, significantly surpassing imports of GH₵250.2 billion and generating a trade surplus of GH₵44.7 billion, according to the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) Trade Report. The report highlights that just three commodities—gold, petroleum, and cocoa—accounted for 78.2 percent of Ghana’s total export revenue. […]
Ghana’s robust export performance in 2023, exceeding imports for the first time in recent years, reveals a continued reliance on a few key commodities. While this strategy generated a trade surplus of GH₵5.3billion, it also highlights the need for diversification. According to the Ghana 2023 Trade Report, gold maintains its dominance as the top export, […]
The Auditor-General has uncovered more questionable payments at the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA), including monies paid to furnish the private home of a former Deputy Executive Secretary. A review of the GEPA’s payroll records revealed that on July 11, 2017, a total of GH¢54,340.00 was wrongly paid to Mr Eric Twum Amoako, a former […]
The management of Ghana Exim Bank has refuted a story published in The Herald newspaper alleging that an amount of GH¢33 million had gone missing at the bank. The bank in a rebuttal described the publication as misleading, malicious, mischievous and one which lacks any factual basis. A statement issued by the management of the bank […]
The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) in collaboration with the Dubai Chamber of Commerce is organizing an investment promotion mission to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from the 6th to 13th April 2019. Partnered by the Ghana Free Zones Authority (GFZA) and the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA), the mission is being held on the […]
In an effort to expand the market scope and opportunities for exporters of non-traditional products to the international community, the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) has organised sensitisation training for business operators in the Brong Ahafo Region. The one-day workshop was aimed at educating businesses about the nitty-gritties of an interactive website dubbed ‘GEPA Market […]
Sections of the Ghanaian Public are questioning the decision to appoint dismissed deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Export Promotion Authority, Eric Twum Amoako as government spokesperson at the Ministry of Information. They are particularly unhappy that the Ministry which already has 3 ministers, the substantive Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah and his two deputies, […]
Information available to BestNewsGH.com indicate that the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) and government are refusing to make public, findings of an investigation that was commissioned to look into allegations of malfeasance against the former chief executive officer of the Ghana Export Promotion Authority, Gifty Klenam. The reason for government and the EOCO’s refusal […]
