Despite a booming shoe and other leather works industry in the country, it is sad and surprising to learn that not even a single leather tannery exists to supply these small businesses with leather - leaving them at the mercy of importers.
The situation is even more worrying if a...
Mr. Eli Hini, General Manager of MTN Mobile Money, has advised mobile money agents in the country to be supportive in the fight against mobile money-related fraud.
“Agents have not been supportive in the fight against fraud; they are supposed to be our channel of educating customers to understand what...
The Executive Director for the National Population Council (NPC), Dr. Leticia Adelaide Appiah, has indicated that a holistic and comprehensive approach is required to tackle rising threat of teenage pregnancy as government has done with the galamsey menace.
According to Dr. Appiah, the country’s teenage pregnancy rate at 14% is...
Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said technical works on the interoperability of the payment system has been completed and would be launched in January next year.
He said the implementation of the system would enable persons using mobile phones and traditional bank accounts to communicate and send money across...
Government is hoping that a full implementation of its digitisation drive next year would facilitate tax compliance and payment by Ghanaians.
Out of a total of 4million people active in the formal sector, just about 1.3m currently pay their taxes, estimated at some GH¢3.5billion.
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, speaking to the...
Oil-producing countries must focus on how to diversify their economies
Many oil- and gas-rich countries—including those in the Middle East and North Africa, such as Algeria and Saudi Arabia— have either announced or put in place policies to reduce their dependence on oil by diversifying their economies. The collapse in...
All is set for this year’s UMB Bank Accra Open golf stroke play competition, officials of the Bank and host Club, Achimota Golf Club have said.
The four-day golf event (72 Hole), the biggest on the capital’s calendar forms part of UMB 45th anniversary year-long celebration.
Achimota Golf Club captain Mr...
Papa Owusu-Ankomah, Ghana’s High Commissioner to the UK and Republic of Ireland, has assured senior business executives of high returns on their investment in Ghana.
The High Commissioner - in the first of a round-table engagement series organised by Hogan Lovells in collaboration with the African missions in the UK...
The Embassy of Hungary, as part of its activities marking the 12th Ghanaian-Hungarian Business Forum, assisted in launching the KRIF’s Customer Feedback System at the Kempinski Gold Coast Hotel in Accra last week.
The customer feedback system is a Microsoft- based device which comes with an innovative design, ease of...
The agricultural sector on the continent needs stronger regulations to correct the existing governance processes that are fraught with weakness, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, Vera Songwe, has said.
“Land rights are not secure, the procurement process for inputs such as fertilizer and other inputs remain...