Ghana loses $2.1bn on tax incentives annually – Study

Ghana is said to be losing about 2.1 billion dollars annually due to tax incentives and holidays alone. This is contained in a new study conducted by Tax Justice Network Africa in Ghana and two...

HFC, Republic Bank officials call on Akufo-Addo

Officials of HFC Bank and Republic Bank have paid a courtesy call on Ghana’s president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. They include HFC Bank’s new board chairman, Mr. Charles William Zwennes, together with the Managing Director,...

Cocoa sector players, Otumfuo hail Cargill

The Ministers for Food & Agriculture, Trade and Industry, Executives of COCOBOD and the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II have pledged their support to Cargill in its bid to improve the cocoa sector. In separate...

BoG limits CEOs tenure to 15 years

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) is to implement new corporate governance guidelines for the banking sector next month, as it seeks to ensure that proper corporate governance practices are entrenched. The new guidelines will see...

Jubilee Fields to shut down

The Jubilee Oil field would be shut down again during the second half of this year to allow for the completion of repair works on the vessel. The turret bearing of the FPSO Kwame Nkrumah...

Small-scale mining to be conducted in a sustainable manner – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has revealed that his government is putting in place measures to ensure that small-scale mining is conducted in a sustainable manner. According to him, “the sustainable small-scale mining regime we...
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I don’t owe SSNIT – Ibrahim Mahama

Engineers and Planners has claimed it had settled all its indebtedness to the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) as of April,28,2017. The company owned by Ibrahim Mahama, brother of former President John Mahama,...

Taxi drivers attack Uber operators in Ghana

Uber operators are under attack from some taxi drivers in Ghana’s capital, Accra. The traditional Taxi drivers at the Accra Mall and the Airport enclave have become hostile towards their rival Uber drivers. According to an...

ECG workers won’t be laid-off – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has assured that workers of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) will not be laid off under the second Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) compact programme. According to him, government is...

Akufo-Addo: It’s time to capture more Ghanaians into formal sector

President Akufo-Addo Monday declared that it was time for government to capture more Ghanaian workers into the formal sector. This, according to him would be in the interest of the country as figures available showed...