Hard work indeed pays. Barely four years after she decided to serve people with the healing art of chiropractic, Dr Naa Ashley Dordor was awarded for her tremendous services in the health sector at the Small and Medium Enterprises Ghana Aw…
Six subvented agencies have signed a performance contract with the government to commit to a certain standard of service delivery and revenue generation targets.
The agreement is also aimed at enhancing accountability, efficiency and tr…
The 7th marketing world awards and Marketing360 summit is schedule to come off on the 3rd of November, 2017 at the Kempinski Ambassador Hotel, Accra.
The Awards which had hitherto been held in Nigeria will feature Marketing360 Summit,…
South Africa’s continuous participation in the upcoming Havana International Fair will ensure that both South Africa and Cuba continue to consolidate on their set objectives and expand bilateral relations
The Deputy Minister of Trad…
When you’re recognised by one of the leading professional bodies in the country, you know you’re doing something right.
Global engineering and infrastructure advisory firm Aurecon is honoured to have been awarded the “Transportation Eng…
Mr Ebenezer Kakrah Hammah, the Chief Executive Officer, McHammah Engineering, has called for the establishment of a body to streamline the operations of commercial vehicles or ‘trotro’ seats manufacturers in the country.
He said in desi…
Smallholder farmers in some communities in the Kassena-Nankana Municipal and the Kassena-Nankana West District who ventured into the commercial farming of Sesame are expecting a good harvest.
About 100 farmers, majority of them women dr…
The National Service Scheme (NSS) has continued to benefit from the savings made with the use of e-zwich to pay allowances of personnel.
The Acting Executive Director of the National Service Secretariat, Mustapha Ussif, who disclosed t…
Memory chips and China's economic muscle are among the factors that have put a rocket under Asian stocks this year, pushing markets to record or multi-year highs.
"Everyone hated Asia markets for a long time," says Josh Crabb, head of A…
The lack of a centralised form of data that securities industry players can connect to get information about the transaction records of clients is a great challenge to fighting systemic risk.
Mr Kwabena Boamah, Chief Investment Officer …
If you think that WhatsApp is killing the humble text message you may need to think again.
A growing number of us are sending far fewer text messages than we used to.
Armed with our fancy smartphones, in recent years we have instead …
Organised Labour has asked the government to pursue bold and strong policies to transform the economy.
It said the electorate gave the government the mandate to rule the country because they trusted in its ability to transform the econo…
The International Air Travel Association’s (IATA), Thursday, presented a membership certificate to the Africa World Airlines (AWA), Ghana's fastest growing regional carrier.
The symbolic presentation was done at the opening of the First…
Alhaji Abdul-Sheriff Adams, President of the Upper East Chapter of the Association of Rural and Community Banks (RCBs) on Thursday urged Rural and Community Banks to focus on investing in agribusinesses and cottage industries.
Alhaji Ad…
Saudi Arabia’s stock exchange is gunning for the exclusive right to list shares of oil giant Aramco and will compete with other bourses seeking a piece of what could be the world’s biggest initial public offering, the head of the Saudi exc…
Toyota Ghana has initiated a move to recall about 15,000 of its vehicles with faulty Takata airbags for them to be replaced with the improved life-saving gadgets.
The vehicles include some Toyota models made from 2002 to 2014 and may ha…
THE Director of Farmer Services at Farmerline, Mr Bright Adu Schandorf, has cautioned the government to take a critical look at supporting smallholder farmers.
“The government could be chasing the wind if the intended investment in the …
Toyota, Ghana on Friday held the 2017 Toyota users conference in line with Toyota’s policy of getting closer to customers and to thank them for their continues patronage of their product.
The conference which was on the theme: “Ever be…
A former Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Dr Alhassan Yakubu, is pushing for a comprehensive dialogue on agriculture to enable the sector to lead the effort towards economic recovery.
He said discussions on the sector had often not refle…
Papa Owusu Ankomah, Ghana’s High Commissioner to the UK and the Republic of Ireland has stressed the need to deepen bilateral trade and investment relations between Ghana and Scotland.
He said Ghana’s strong democratic credentials, good…
Mr Omar Hamidou Tchiana, Senior Minister and Minister of Transport of Niger, on Thursday said Ghana and Niger are exploring aviation areas for partnership.
Speaking to the GNA in an interview on the second day of the maiden African Air …
Global bond issuance will fall slightly this year amid a double-digit slide in public sector borrowing and is only expected to rise modestly next year as central banks pull back on looser monetary policy.
S&P Global Fixed Income Researc…
Hotel booking sites are to be probed by the UK's competition watchdog to see if consumers are being misled by them.
The Competition and Markets Authority is concerned that rather than helping consumers, the sites might actually be makin…
The General Secretary of the General Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU), Mr Edward Kareweh, has called for a paradigm shift in the approach to agriculture in the country to enable a significant growth in the sector.
He explained that the…
In a bid to sanitize the petroleum downstream industry, the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has since August this year begun the implementation of new export guidelines to clamp down on fuel smuggling in Ghana.
Addressing participant…
Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has left Accra for Vienna, Austria, to participate in the World Bank Group’s Investment Competitiveness Forum slated for October 25-27.
A statement signed by Anabel Gonzalez, Senior Director, Trade and…
Emirates Airlines on Thursday launched a special fare of $570 to Dubai, intended to get more people to visit Dubai. The special fare was launched at first African Air Show in Accra.
Mr Hendrik Du Preez, Country Manager for Emirates, sai…
The Melcom Group of Companies has intensified its strive to boost trade, industry, commerce and job creation in the country through its retail outlets, by commissioning its 38th retail shopping centre at Achimota, Accra.
The Achimota Me…
Twitter said it may turn a profit in the fourth quarter as the tech company narrowed its losses and added users.
The firm, which has not posted a profit since going public four years ago, said its losses narrowed from $103m (£78m) to $2…
Africa’s leading digital television operator StarTimes is giving out free decoders to Ghanaians. The move which is part of the company’s one year anniversary celebrations is also to enable every citizen have a feel of digital television, a…
The Shama District Assembly has budgeted aboutGHC 86 million cedis for various development interventions under its 2018 to 2021 medium term development plan.
The District would concentrate more on access to potable water and health car…
The European Central Bank (ECB) will cut back its scheme designed to boost the economies of the eurozone.
From January of next year, it will reduce the amount of assets it buys every month to €30bn from the current level of €60bn.
Th…
One of the world's biggest insurance firms has said it will take a loss in the third quarter because of hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria.
Munich Re expects the hurricanes that ravaged parts of the US and the Caribbean to cost it €2.7bn…
The euro climbed for a third day and stocks slipped to a month low on Thursday, as traders waited for formal confirmation from the European Central Bank that will take its biggest step yet in unwinding years of loose monetary policy.
Ba…
“Koose” has made it to the international scene. “Koose”, a Ghanaian delicacy and side dish, is prepared by deep or shallow-frying thick cowpea paste, which is usually mixed with onions, spices and other condiments.
“Koose” has been reco…
MTN Ghana writes in reference to an article published in The Finder newspaper on October 23rd 2017, under the headline Mobile Money Fraud alarming. In the publication, which we note has been carried by other media houses, the newspaper …
Scotland's best-known business siblings have gone their separate ways to invest their fortunes.
Ann Gloag and Sir Brian Souter split the wealth they were managing together "to follow very different investment strategies".
The announc…
Cocoa Farmers at Agona Abodom in the Agona West Municipality of the Central region have appealed to the National Security and Bureau of the National Investigations (BNI) to rescue them from rampant stealing of their fresh cocoa beans.
M…
There is the need to develop capacities of agricultural actors and intensify promotion of value chain development to address emerging challenges to food security, nutrition and sustainable rural development in West Africa.
Mr Serge Raym…
Marks and Spencer clothing boss Jo Jenkins has quit, months after starting a new role at the struggling retailer.
Ms Jenkins is to leave M&S to become chief executive at White Stuff, a privately owned clothing chain.
The change comes…
The Ghana Community Network Services Limited (GCNet) has indicated its willingness to continue to work with government to implement initiatives that will transform the country from a passive technology consumer to one of innovations.
Th…
ECOWAS leaders have committed to fast-track measures leading to the creation and use of a single currency for the economic bloc by 2020.
At the Fourth Meeting of the Presidential Taskforce on a common currency for the West African Monet…
Worldwide mobile operators GSMA has launched a report in partnership with the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) that examines the transformative opportunities presented by mobile-enabled digital services in Ghana.
The…
New Zealand will ban foreign buyers from purchasing existing homes in the country in an effort to cool soaring property prices.
Prime minister-elect Jacinda Ardern said the ban only applied to non-residents.
The country is facing a h…
The UK's economy had higher than expected growth in the three months to September - increasing the chances of a rise in interest rates in November.
Gross domestic product (GDP) for the quarter rose by 0.4%, compared with 0.3% in each of…
Once in a while you meet someone who may not be a family member but connects to you like one. You can also meet someone who may not be a father but relates to you as one. That is how I felt connected to Mr Dan Kofi Okudzeto the first time …
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised issues about the country’s revenue underperformance and asked the government to streamline its policies on tax incentives.
In a statement to the Daily Graphic, the IMF said revenue admini…
The Executive Director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS), Professor Newman Kusi, has said mobilising additional revenue has become a key priority for the government, as it is the only option available to create fiscal space, increas…
The Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons of Equatorial Guinea, Kosmos Energy of the US and national oil company GEPetrol have signed three new production sharing contracts (PSC) for Block EG-21, Block S and Block W offshore Rio Muni
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Corning reported third-quarter sales up 4 percent year-on-year to USD 2.607 billion, as demand for its fibre products and specialty materials like Gorilla Glass helped offset weakness in the LCD display market. Net income rose 37 percent t…