The 2013 Ghana Club 100 event is underway at the State Banquet Hall in Accra.The Ghana Club 100 is a yearly official list of the top 100 companies in Ghana. The compilation was first done in 1998 by the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) with the aim of recognising the top 100 companies and to encourage competition and improvement of company products and services in the country.Follow our live updates. (refresh the page from time to time to reveal new updates.Mawuena Trebah, CEO of Ghana Investment Promotion Council (GNPC), delivers the welcome address.She calls for the adoption of international best practices in all areas of our business endeavours. The rankings are now underway:100: 99: Adonten Community Bank, New Tafo. Eastern Region.98: Adum Rural Bank97: Pheonix Life Insurance Company96: North Kaneshie Forex Bureau Limited95: Polytank Ghana Limited.94: Amansie West Rural Bank93: Crocodile Machete Limited93: HFC Bank92. 91: Upper Manya Krobo Rural Bank Limited90: Kasema Rural Bank89: Interplast Limited88: Graphic Communications Group Limited87: Amanano Rural Bank Limited86: Chorkor Cable and  Conductor Limited 85: 84: suma Rural Bank 83: Activa Insurance Company Limited82: First Allied Savings and Loans Limited.81: Glico General Insurance Limited80: Societe-General BankWe will be back soon with the next 10 rankings. Don't go away. Keep refreshing the page to reveal new updates. Kasapreko Company Limited, SOFTtribe and HPW receive special awards for Innovation. Musical interlude underway now.79: Mwanbengya Rural  Bank78: Adansi Rural Bank77: Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited76: Jislah Financial Services 75: Prudential Bank Limited 74: Wienco Ghana Limited73: Ghana Health Sevices72: Atwima Mponma Rural Bank71: Quality Life Assurance Company limited70: Zenith Bank69: IPMC68: Upper Amenfi Rural Bank Limited67: Mechanical Lloyd Company Limited66: Bank of Baroda Ghana65: South Akim Rural Bank, Mankesi64: Ramelle International Group63: Quality Insurance Company 62: Asante Akyim Rural Bank61: Sahel Sahara Bank60: Wapic Insurance GhanaBBC Journalist, Komla Dumour, appears on stage "to talk about opportunities, not just in Ghana but in Africa". Komla will interview three experts  to get their perspectives on the investment climate in AfricaThey are  William Olukoya and Paul Tally and Dr Thomson Mensah.(Remember to keep refreshing your page to reveal new updates.) Dr Thomson Mensah: Ghanaian companies ought to be thinking of investing outside the borders of Ghana. William Olukoya: Cross-border integration is very important. I also want to see  Ghana support the youth to become entrepreneurs. Dinner is set here at the State Banquet Hall. :-)We will back any moment from now with the countdown from 59 to 50.Don't go away. And we are back! Highlife Musician Kwabena Kwabena appears on stage to perform. We are set to resume the countdown now. 59: Ivory Financial Services58: Adotibiri Rural Bank57: Juaben Rural Bank56: Glico Life Insurance Company55: Enterprise Insurance Company54: M&J Pharmaceuticals Limited53: Vanguard Assurance Company Limited52: Renes and Company Ghana51: Parama Forex Bureau     50: Ahantaman Rural Bank49: Latex Foam Company Limited48: Barclays Bank Ghana Limited47: Guarantee Trust Bank Ghana Limited 46: Phoenix Insurance Company Limited 45: SIC Life Insurance Company Limited 44: Citi Investments Company Limited43: Ghana Homes Loans Company limited 42: Accra Brewery Limited  41: Lower Pra Rural Bank40: Stanbic Bank Ghana Limited39: GCB Bank Limited38: Benso Oil Palm Plantation Limited37: Ghana Oil Company 36: Efiaseman Rural Bank 35: Amenfiman Rural Bank34: L'ainne Services Limited33: Provident Life Assurance Company Limited.32: Equity Assurance Limited31: Cal Bank30: UT Bank29::British American Tobacco28: Fan Milk Limited27: Standard Chartered Bank26: Unibank Limited 25: New Crystal Health Services24: Scancom Limited (MTN)23: G4S Securities Services Ghana22: United Bank for Africa Ghana21: Access Bank Ghana20: Ghana Rubber Estates Limited19: Toyota Ghana Company Limited 18: Star Assurance Company Limited17: Fidelity Bank16: Dalex FinanceWe take a break from the ranking to present some special awards. The ranking will continue thereafter: 1) Leading Tax payer - Goldfields Ghana Limited2) Best Entrant - Multipro Company Limited3) Leader in Agric and Agro Business Sector - PBC Limited (formerly produce Buying Company)4: Leader in Rural Bank sector: Amanfiman Rural Bank5) Leader in e-Education: IPMC6) Fastest Growing Company  in Ghana - MacDan Shipping 7) Largest Company in Ghana in. 2012: Goldfields Ghana LimitedWe are set to resume the countdown.15) Newmont Ghana 14) Total Petroleum13) Melcom Group of Companies12) Ecobank Ghana Limited11) Aboso Goldfields10) First Capital Plus Savings and Loans9) Auto Plaza Limited8) Multipro Private Limited (Importers of Indomie)7) Ghana Community Network Services (GCnet)6) Kasapreko Company5) MacDan Shipping Company Limited4) PBC Limited (formerly produce Buying Company)3) Enterprise Life Insurance Company2) Goldfields Ghana1) RLG Communications

As the old stereotype goes, German people are always first to bag the sun loungers, and always last to say thank you.

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, has started this year's Wharton seminars for business journalists, which bring financial and economic journalists up to the speed of current trends in the discipline.

Despite the falling world prices of cocoa, government has maintained the producer price at GHC3, 392 per tonne, representing 79.17 per cent of the net Free on Board Price.

A group calling itself the Concerned Youth of the Upper East Region on Thursday, staged a peaceful demonstration against the Police in the region for incessant acts of extortion of monies from vehicle users in the region, especially within  the Bolgatanga Municipality.

The Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) says it has no plans of reducing transportation fares even though petrol prices have gone down again.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) is leading, according to the latest Language Monitoring Report, as the party whose affiliates used the most indecent expressions on radio between August and September 2013.

Residents of Effiekumah in the Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolis were early this morning stunned when a 13-year-old Class 6 pupil committed suicide for no apparent reason.

Reports reaching graphic.com.gh indicate that 23 passengers, who were Friday travelling from Kumasi to Edwira in a Mercedez benz 207 bus, died on the spot after their bus collided with a tipper truck loaded with stones.

The Ghana Education Service (GES) says no decision has been taken on staff rationalisation and the redeployment of teachers across the country.

The Catholic Bishop of Sunyani, Most Reverend Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi, has called for a review of the country's educational system to help equip graduates with practical skills in addition to acquiring academic knowledge.

The tender for the supply of laptops for schools has been cancelled after shortlisted bidders overpriced the gadgets, surpassing the project’s budget by Sh20 billion.

The Ghana Medical Association has warned that the current economic hardship in the country could trigger more suicides if government does not take appropriate steps to improve the living standards of the ordinary Ghanaian.

The New Patriotic Party has said it does not recognise guidelines issued by certain constituency and regional officers for the forthcoming internal elections.

The man being investigated by Norwegian police over the attack on Kenya's Westgate shopping centre is Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow, BBC Newsnight has learned.

Ghana’s external debt has increased by 306 percent between 2006 and 2012 to reach $8,835.6 million as at the end of 2012.

What exactly is the name of the medical condition that ends in suicide because the patient could not pay his utility tariffs? When did the leadership of the Ghana Medical Association care about people dying in our hospitals? They go on strike any time they please, and dutifully collect their salaries at the end of every month, and turn around to express this fallacious concern for people who cannot pay utility tariffs? I cannot pay the new tariffs, but I will not kill myself. Sorry.

By the time I finished secondary school, I had read a fair number of the so-called “Classics.”  Much of the literature I read back then is work that I will carry with me and cherish forever; it is work that nurtured my love of language and inspired me to pick up my own pen and put it to paper.

The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has announced reduction of 1.57 per cent in the price of petrol  and 2.49 per cent in the price of Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG).