Officials of Assin North Senior High School have been given two weeks by the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament to purge themselves of perjury or cough up over GH₵61,000.
According to the 2015 Auditor General's report, the school made payments of GH₵163,000 without receipts and invoices to verify the payments.
Officials...
The Ghana Education Service (GES) is set to abrogate an ICT contract for Senior High Schools in the country more than two years after paying several millions of Ghana cedis to a service provider by name Eduvid Education Limited.
The deal signed on 13th November, 2015 was for the supply...
Businesses will have to adapt to the changing payment system in order to support the cash-lite drive. This is according to Mr. Archie Hesse, the Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement System (GhIPSS). He said some long-held corporate practices will have be aligned to electronic payments.
Ghana...
Smaller crops, more demand pave way for balance in 2017/18
Cargill looking to expand origin processing, focus on Africa
Company to work with Ivory Coast on high-yield seed concerns
Cargill sees the cocoa market broadly balanced in the current 2017/18 season and is aiming to expand its processing capacity...
People’s Pension Trust (PPT) Ghana Limited has started paying bonuses to pension contributors – a move expected to boost pensions in especially the informal sector.
The company has offered a 10% top-up on the total pension contribution its loyal customers made in the year 2017. The beneficiaries, over a hundred,...
Poor corporate governance in the financial sector is to blame for the collapse and struggles of many banks and savings and loans companies in the country, Dr. Williams Abayaawien Atuilik, a chartered economist and banker has said.
According to him, research has indicated that some board members of financial institutions...
… as he launches 8th Annual Pre-Harvest Agribusiness Conference and Exhibition
The Minister of State for Agriculture, Dr. Nurah Gyiele, has said there is a need to increase both public and private sector investments in the agriculture sector if the country is to sustain growth of the sector - which...
The Ministry of Education has outlined plans to make Technical and Vocation Education and Training (TVET) effective and efficient, as part of measures to address the high unemployment rate in the country.
Over the past years, development of the TVET sector has been plagued with a number of factors: including...
The majority of Ghana’s estimated 28million people still struggle to get a decent place to lay their head after a hard day’s work.
A growing housing deficit, lack of enforcement of the Rent Control Act that stipulates landlords cannot demand more than three and six months of rent advance for...
A 35-member business delegation from Bavaria, Germany, was in the country last week to explore business opportunities for the mutual benefit of the two countries. The delegation is the first trade mission from that region to Ghana and was focused on partnering Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) which are...