Thursday, April 23, 2026
The government wants more private sector support in creating jobs for the nation’s growing youthful population. Seth Osei Akoto, Director of Crop Services at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, said this at the launch of Agric Management System (AMS), an innovative end-to-end solution and the Virtual Farmer Programme (VFP),...
The Ministry of Education (MoE) has finally received clearance to employ over 22,000 personnel --both teaching and non-teaching staff-- after government put a ban on employment in the education sector in the last few years. “The ministry has received clearance to replace, recruit, reappoint and re-instate 22,802 personnel of different...
The regulator of mobile money services, the central bank, has been urged to come up with an urgent policy that offers protection to consumers of mobile financial services in the event of any service provider’s collapse. Isabelle Barres, VP of the Center for Financial Inclusion and Director of Smart Campaign...
There is a certain mistrust that characterises NDC-NPP politics in Ghana and which is making the country look, increasingly, like it does not uphold the sanctity of contracts; and experts warn this could give investors the wrong impression. While contract cancellations have led to judgement debts in the past, with...
Microfin Rural Bank (MRB) at Gomoa Pomadze in the Central Region has posted its first profit of GH₵231,419 after barely four years in operation, on the back of sterling growth in other key performance area. The profit figure represents a 62 percent growth over previous year’s amount, with interest income,...
November or movember, you say? For a vast number of the populace movember’s significance in the calendar is still a mystery. For those mystified individuals, movember came to life 14 years ago in 2003, created by a few friends over a beer in Melbourne, Australia. You might think, how sloshed...
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has been charged to take advantage of the numerous opportunities afforded by technology to increase the tax to GDP ratio, and thereby help reduce the country’s dependency on aid and donor support. “The country’s tax to Gross Domestic Products (GDP) ratio, which is quite alarming,...
As from 1st January 2018, Ghanaian farmers will be able to resume exports of all plant commodities to the European Union (EU) market. This follows the European Commission's decision to lift the current ban on the exports of five plant commodities from Ghana to the European Union (EU) market on...
A total of 1,000 Ghanaians will receive training annually as part of the newly launched Accelerated Oil and Gas Capacity Programme (AOGC), President Nana Akufo-Addo, has said. Two hundred Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) will also be provided with the capacity to gain a competitive advantage in the industry...
Ghana’s hopes of raising a debt without sovereign guarantee did not yield the expected results, and the outcome has been met with mixed reactions from industry and academia. A statement from ESLA Plc. - the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) established to raise the bond with backing from the Energy Debt...