MTN introduces self-service kiosks

Telecommunication Company, MTN, is set to introduce automated kiosks to self-serve its Mobile Money customers across the country. The new model means that customers will not necessarily have to visit designated vending points to transact...

Cocobod embarks on nationwide mass pruning

The Ghana Cocobod is conducting mass pruning of cocoa trees across the country. This is the first time Ghana is embarking on a pruning exercise aimed at boosting the sector. The exercise, which will run for...

Textile workers hit streets over fake prints

Hundreds of textile workers are expected to demonstrate in Accra today, April 27, 2018 to protest the failure of the government’s taskforce to stop smuggling and sale of pirated wax prints. The anti-pirated textile taskforce...
Dr. Bawumia in the earth moving equipment to cut sod for the Concrete Road

Gov’t cuts sod for 5.4km Tema Concrete Road

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has cut sod for work to begin on the construction of a concrete road in Ghana, decades after such a major undertaking in the country. Construction work on the 5.4...

Severance packages for staff of defunct UT, Capital Banks in limbo

The body negotiating the severance packages for the staff of defunct UT and Capital Banks has served notice it is unable to tell when payment will be made. The General Secretary of UNICOF, John Senanu...

ECG concession: BXC’s suit could stagger agreement – Jinapor

A former Deputy Power Minister, John Jinapor has warned that Ghana could lose out on the $500million ECG privatization package under the Power Compact II agreement. His caution comes after one of the concessionaires that...

HFC Bank rebrands to Republic Bank Ghana

HFC Bank has successfully rebranded to Republic Bank to align it with its parent company, Republic Financial Holdings Limited of Trinidad and Tobago. Started in 1991 as a pilot housing financing programme by SSNIT, HFC...

GUTA skeptical about GSA’s EasyPASS initiative

Traders are skeptical about the soon-to-be implemented EasyPass program by the Ghana Standards Authority, in spite of it being voluntary. The program which is to reduce the time spent in clearing goods at the ports,...

Ghana Hotels Association gets new President

Dr. Edward Ackah Nyameke Jnr has been sworn into office as the new President of the Ghana Hotels Association. The former Greater Accra President of the Association is taking over from Herbert Acquaye. According to him,...

ECG Concession: BXC sues MiDA over ‘unfair’ disqualification

One of the concessionaires that bid to manage the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) under the Power Compact II agreement, BXC Consortium has sued the Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) over what it describes as...