Though SG-SSB’s revenue in the third quarter of 2012 shot up by 24 percent to GHS110.4 million on the back of an impressive growth in non-interest income by 132 percent, its loan default increased by a whopping 110 percent to … Continue reading →

Standard Bank Group, the parent company of Stanbic Bank Ghana, produced a sound financial performance for 2012 and demonstrated good momentum in its businesses. The group delivered 10 percent growth in headline earnings to a record US$1.77 billion, and 23 … Continue reading →

Africa’s farmers and agribusinesses could create a trillion-dollar food market by 2030 if they can expand access to more capital, electricity, better technology and irrigated land to grow high-value nutritious foods, a new World Bank report has indicated. The recent … Continue reading →

Grosvenor Shirts on Thursday opened its Ghana branch at the Marina Mall at Airport City in Accra. Grosvenor London is a one-stop emporium for gentlemen seeking shirts and accessories of style and distinction. The flagship destination store is nestled in … Continue reading →

Over 2,000 Ghanaian seafarers, popularly called seamen, who are currently working on European Shipping Companies all over the world may lose their jobs and face deportation over what is believed to be the failure of government to ratify the International … Continue reading →

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) on Friday sealed off the premises of Unique Concerns Ghana Limited, a fishing company located in the Tema Industrial Area, for failing to pay custom duty, tax, penalty and interest. GRA has subsequently issued a … Continue reading →

Hello Doc, Your beloved Asomdwekrom was 56 years just last week and I felt it was the most opportune time to write to you. I hope life in Samanfoland is not as frightening and ghostly as our pastors and Imams … Continue reading →

It is close to a week since a group of unruly military policemen visited brutality on a press photographer. The only response so far has been an apology of sorts from government quarters. The apology has, of course, been followed … Continue reading →

An Independent Presidential Candidate in the 2012 presidential election, Jacob Osei Yeboah aka JOY, was last Wednesday arrested and charged with assault and kidnapping after reportedly beating up his business partner and taking the latter hostage for hours. The Airport … Continue reading →

Belinda Ofori, a former student of Wesley Girl’s High School in Cape Coast, has written her name in history books by becoming the first Ghanaian Visual Arts student to emerge as the Overall Best Student in the WAEC examinations for … Continue reading →

Former First Deputy Speaker of Parliament and an old boy of Adisadel College in Cape Coast, Freddie Blay, has urged management of the school not to succumb to mediocrity. He said the authorities, while checking the number of student intake, … Continue reading →

Issues have started popping up about government’s involvement in the $10billion ‘Hope City’ project being undertaken by Ghanaian telecommunication and ICT giant, rlg. Policy think-tank Danquah Institute (DI) believed there was more to the project than what Ghanaians had been … Continue reading →

The Electoral Commission (EC) has dismissed claims by the parliamentary candidate for the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Mfantseman Constituency in the December 2012 general elections, Stephen Asamoah Boateng aka Asabee, that the polls were somewhat rigged. In its … Continue reading →

There was near stampede at the Supreme Court registry on Friday as National Democratic Congress (NDC) members trooped in to file joinders in the case in which three New Patriotic Party (NPP) leaders, including the party’s presidential candidate for the … Continue reading →