Ghana
Vai alla Scheda Paese »Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.
— Kwame Nkrumah
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Enhancing government-led productivity – Toma Imihere
Next year, during the run up to the 2016 general elections, Ghana will reach the mid point of its three year Extended Credit Facility programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Even as the government seeks to intensify fiscal consolidation by bringing its budget deficit down to 5.3% of GDP, ...
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SIC Life goes into savings and loans to increase insurance penetration
One of Ghana’s leading insurance firms, SIC Life, has announced plans to reach more uninsured people through the setting up of a savings and loans company. The Chief Executive Officer of the company, Aaron Issa Anafure, made this known at its end of year staff durbar and get- together to ...
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Kyoto entrepreneur finds business sweet spot with cocoa from Indonesia
Keiichi Yoshino, a 34-year-old operator of chocolate shops in Kyoto, never dreamed he would become a chocolatier. His epiphany came in a coffeehouse in South Korea in 2010. Looking at a map of global cocoa production areas, the former financial analyst wondered why Japan largely depends on Ghana for cocoa ...
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Highly enriched Tasty Tom Tomato Mix launched
Nutrifoods Ghana Ltd, producers of the popular Tasty Tom Tomato Paste, have launched a newly enriched and fortified product known as the Tasty Tom Tomato Mix that seeks to improve the daily vitamin needs of consumers. Tasty Tom Tomato Paste, a firm favourite used in several Ghanaian homes for making ...
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Banning 1st class travels laudable; enforce it – GII to Mahama
The Ghana integrity Initiative (GII) has commended President John Mahama’s directive to ministers to desist from embarking on first class travels whiles on official duties. All government ministers who embark on official foreign travels on first class tickets have been directed by the presidency to stop with immediate effect. Government has ...
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2016 election budget too huge – International donors
Ghana’s international donor partners have expressed concerns with the GHc1.2 billion approved by Parliament to conduct the 2016 general elections. This was revealed by the Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO). The Electoral Commission presented a budget of GHc1.7 billion for next year’s general election but GHc1.2 billion was approved ...
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Airtel MD motivates school kids
Lucy Quist, Managing Director of Airtel Ghana and CIMG Marketing Woman of the Year has challenged young people to dream big, believe in their dreams and work tirelessly to achieve it. She gave the advice recently during a mentorship session with Junior High School students of the Mataheko One School ...
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Launch of Ghana’s First Mobile Crowd-funding Solution – groupInns
Ghana’s first mobile crowd-funding solution- groupInns has recently been launched in Accra. Speaking at the launch, Head of Business Center at groupInns, Miss Jessica Fleisher-Djoleto indicated, “with the groupInns platform, private individuals and public groups can finance their personal and charity projects, fundraising activities and events by simply dialing *718*30# ...
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Randgold pulls out of Ghana partnership
Resources group says $1bn Obuasi gold mine deal would not meet investment hurdles
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Citi FM holds end of year thanksgiving service [Photos]
Citi FM held its end of year thanksgiving church service at Living Streams International at Trade Fair in Accra today [Sunday]. The service offered staff of Citi FM an opportunity to thank God for a successful year and ask for his guidance for next year[2016]. The Head Pastor of the ...
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Vodafone takes over ‘Agro Fie’ on TV
Vodafone has reached a sponsorship agreement with the producers of popular TV show, “Agro Fie.” Agro Fie is a local entertainment programme designed to educate Ghanaians on the traditions, values and ideas of the country in a fun way. It employs such acts as dancing, singing and comedy on its ...
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‘Nana Addo can never be President’ – Asuma Banda
Renowned Ghanaian business mogul and a former Member of the Council of State, Dr. Alhaji Asuma Banda, has told Accra-based Television Station TV3, that the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Akufo-Addo can “never be President of Ghana.” Alhaji Banda who was answering a question from Kwesi Pratt, ...
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BoG to sanction banks over forex accounts
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has threatened to sanction banks who deliberately misclassify foreign currency denominated accounts. According to the central bank’s Governor Dr Henry Kofi Wampah the misclassification of the accounts that is the Foreign Exchange Account (FEA) and Foreign Currency Account (FCA), have resulted in an increasing phenomenon ...
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Ghana’s oil cash funded Ghc3.6m bus re-branding
The amount of Ghc3, 649, 000 that was used to re-brand 116 buses belonging to the Metro Mass Transit (MMT), was money from Ghana’s petroleum revenue. This is according to the 2015 report by the Public Interest Accountability Committee (PIAC) which monitors the use of the country’s oil revenue. According ...
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Prioritize issuance of building permits – Minister
The construction industry contributes about 7.5% of Ghana’s GDP and employs nearly 10% of the country’s working population, Dr. Kwaku Agyemang-Mensah, Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing has said. He was delivering the key note address at a workshop on development and building permits held in Accra, The workshop ...
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Airbnb ponders Gold Coast model
Australians among the top five users of a landmark accommodation partnership between the organisers of the Rio Olympic Games and Airbnb.
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Journal de la Foire, promotion du riz local : Le ministre Alioune Sarr rend hommage aux acteurs de la filière
Dans le cadre de la promotion du consommer local, les autorités du Cices ont réservé un espace de 400 mètres carrés dédiés au riz de la vallée. Une innovation de taille de la 24eme Fidak. Le ministre en Charge du Commerce, Alioune Sarr, a visité hier ces stands et a ...
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Ireland Minister, Coveney leads Trade mission to West Africa
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for Ireland, Mr. Simon Coveney TD will be embarking on a weeklong trade mission to West Africa. Speaking before his departure, Minister Coveney said: “This Trade Mission provides a key foundation on which to build strong economic links with West Africa ...
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Getting the new arrivals to work
DANIEL BAPINGA (pictured) enjoys his job at the Magdas hotel in Vienna, where he works at the bar, serves breakfast and prepares rooms. His family fled Congo for Austria six years ago, when refugee flows to Europe were a fraction of those today. He has settled in well, saying that ...
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Port drivers union want Burkinabe counterparts out
Some Ghanaian haulage drivers who ply the Ghana – Burkina Faso route are accusing their Burkinabe counterparts in the haulage business of physically assaulting them on regular basis. According to the drivers, an illegal document called ‘Bond de Chargement’ has been imposed on them and failure to pay usually results ...
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Businesses shocked at utility price hikes
The Ghana Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has described as shocking, the decision by the PURC to increase utility tariffs. The President of the Chamber, Seth Adjei Baah in an interview with Citi Business News said, “We are shocked and surprised because as at now, most people are not breaking ...