The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) in 2021 recorded a strong performance and returned 43.66 per cent to investors. This made the GSE the second best performing Exchange in Africa and ended the market’s three-year run of negative returns. MrEkowAfedzie, the Managing Director of GSE, who stated this during an interaction with the media on Tuesday, … The post GSE second best bourse in Africa
The Deputy Minister of Finance, Mr John Ampontuah Kumah, has called for value addition of the country’s cocoa beans to fully benefit from the $130-billion global market. According to him, the current earnings on cocoa which was just around $2 billion was paltry and there was the need to focus on value addition to boost … The post Let’s harness $130-billion
At least 30 investigative journalists from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are undergoing a three-day training in Accra on investigative reporting of economic and financial crimes. Organised by the Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering (GIABA), the training draws participants from Ghana, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Togo, Senegal, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Cote d’Ivoire, … The post 30
The Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE) of Accra, Elizabeth Naa Kwatsoe Tawiah Sackey, has directed slum dwellers at the Abuja Market on the railway line area close to the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange in Accra, not to erect any structures at the place but look for alternative sources of accommodation. Her directive followed the fire outbreak on … The post Don’t erect structures
The government will strictly enforce laws against plastic waste pollution in line with a renewed effort to tackle the menace, the Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, DrKwakuAfriyie, has said. He said hefty fines, where applicable, would be carried out to deter people from littering and engaging in other forms of plastic waste pollution … The post Gov’t
A Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, George Mireku Duker, has called on Ghanaians to help the government fight illegal mining for the protection of the country’s water bodies. He said the protection and preservation of the country’s resources was a national duty and should not be left in the hands of only the … The post Help fight
The Faith Evangelical Mission Worldwide (FEMW) last Saturday ordained five bishops of the church in Accra. The ordination ceremony, which was the third of its kind, saw the investiture of Dr Daniel Raynold Odametey-Abbey, Bobby Harley-Neequaye, Stephen Sam, John Stanley Clottey and Michael Sackeyfio as bishops of the church. The Chief Bishop, Frederick France, who … The post Faith
The Ghana National Council of Private Schools (GNACOPS) in collaboration with theNational Teaching Council (NTC), yesterday rolled out a training programme for private school teachers to enhance their professionalism. Dubbed ‘Private School Teachers Continuous Professional Development (PST-CPD)’ the programme, launched in Accra seeks to train 48 master trainers who would later train 20,000 private school … The post GNACOPS,
Utility companies in the Eastern Region have been urged to improve upon their quality of services to satisfy their consumers and reduce the high number of complaints against them. According to the Eastern Regional Manager of the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC), Mr Jude Aduamoah-Addo, his outfit had received 2, 044 complaints last year, out … The post E/R
Seventy-eight housing units, which forms part of the Dumase resettlement project in the Prestea-HuniValley Municipality of the Western Region is to be converted into temporary accommodation facilities for residents of Appiatse. The new arrangement between the government and developers of the resettlement project, Future Global Resources Limited (FGR), was aimed at offering protection to the … The post Temporary
Registration exercise for the Ghana Card at the additional points created by the National Identification Authority (NIA) took off yesterday across the country. The new points are the Accra Sports Stadium, El-Wak Sports Stadium (premium service), Kumasi Sports Stadium, Ghana National Fire Service (Regional Office), Cape Coast, Tamale Sports Stadium. The Ghanaian Times on a … The post Ghana
The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, says the introduction of the electronic levy (E-levy) for revenue mobilisation to improve the economy was a better option than going to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for assistance. The town hall meeting The E-levy, he said had the potential of raking in GH¢7 billion for the country if … The post Revenue
The President of the Ghana Institution of Surveyors (GhIS), Dr JohnAmaglo, has appealed to the government to expedite action on the passage of the Surveying Council Bill to regulate the surveying practice in the country. The Bill he said when passed into an Act would help eliminate quacks from parading as surveyors. “The Act would … The post Expedite action on Surveying Council
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has accepted the resignation of the Chairperson of the National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE), Josephine Nkrumah, who has been appointed as the new ECOWAS Ambassador to Liberia. Ms Nkrumah was at the Jubilee House in Accra yesterday to personally deliver her resignation, which takes effect from April 30, to … The post President
A Campaign to get young women more interested in Technical and Vocational Educational Training (TVET) was on Friday launched in Accra. The participants Dubbed ‘Invest in Her’, the campaign, which is a five-year programme with support from World University Science of Canada (WUSC) and the Commission for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (CTVET), would … The post Campaign
The Upper East Regional Commander of the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Chief Revenue Officer, Mr Samuel Owusu, has observed that payment of taxes was a sacred national duty for all Ghanaians to honour. Mr Owusu, who made the observation at the end-of-year party for 2021 and awards ceremony organised by the … The post GRA: Tax payment is sacred national duty
The University of Mines and Technology (UMaT) on Friday admitted 2,393 undergraduate students out of which 21 per cent are females, to pursue various programmes. The Vice Chancellor (VC) of UMaT, Prof. Richard Amankwah, said the students had been selected to pilot the Ministry of Education’s novel Engineering Scholarship for the Needy Programme. Fifty of … The post UMat holds matriculation
A total of 454 newly qualified medical and dental practitioners were on Saturday inducted into the profession in Accra. They were drawn from the University of Ghana Medical School and Dental School, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology School of Medicine and Dentistry and University of Cape Coast School of Medical Sciences. Others were … The post 454
The picking of nomination forms for the upcoming polling station elections of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has taken off amid confusion and controversies in some parts of the Kumasi Metropolis.There was a charged atmosphere in the Kwadaso Constituency as party members besieged the Suntreso Police Station to get the constituency chairman, to release nomination forms for … The post Chaos
Some think tanks have implored the government to put in measures to overcome the challenges facing the nation. They stated that happenings in Europe as well as governance and security challenges in the West African sub-region would have dire consequences on the local economy. The think tanks were the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) … The post Think
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