Building and Road Contractors can now pick up application forms to compete in the 2nd Contractors Excellence Awards slated for September 21. The awards scheme recognizes excellence in the construction industry. Competition in the awards is expected to get keener this year with the inclusion of Road Contractors.

New entrant into the telecommunications market, Glo Mobile now has 2% of the total market share. ThatÂ’s according to latest figures from the National Communication Authority as at May, 2012.

Oil Marketing Firm, GOIL emerged the best performing stock on the Ghana Stock Exchange in terms of returns to investors for the first half of the year. The company from January to June returned to its investors, slightly over 50 percent in its share-value. This is contained in the half year market report of the Ghana Stock Exchange

The Chairman of the Ghana Stock Exchange Council, Dr. Sam Mensah wants players of the capital market to explore ways of attracting more investors to the market. According to him, this has become crucial especially because several foreign investors have pulled out of the market due to the poor performance of the market in the last few years.

The Bank of Ghana has outdoored an upgraded 50 Ghana cedis bank note.

The government is expecting to create more jobs with the implementation of the “Foresting the Northern Savannah Project.”

The GSMA, the organization that represents the interest of mobile telecom operators worldwide has called for the removal of specific mobile related taxes such as the communications service tax (CST) and the import tax on SIM cards.

The GSMA has projected that the spectrum that would be freed from the migration from analogue to digital television systems by 2015 would triple mobile broadband capacity and lead to 11 million broadband connections in Ghana by 2020.

Manufacturers in Ghana are experiencing tough times in marketing their products because consumers are cash strapped.

The National Communications Authority, NCA plans to free up broadband spectrum for telecom companies to expand mobile broadband penetration by 2015. This is expected to contribute about 1.5 billion cedis to GDP, create nearly 1 million jobs and also improve the quality of TV Broadcasting.

A major challenge currently confronting importers is how to get more cedis to buy dollars for their business. This is primarily due to the rising cost of imports as a result of the continuous fall in value of the cedi against the dollar.

Players in GhanaÂ’s downstream petroleum industry are increasingly eyeing the Ashanti region to maximize profits in oil marketing.

News available to Adom News indicates that in spite of the court injunction placed on the biometric registration at Akuse, the Eastern regional office of the Electoral Commission has proceeded on the exercise.

A Ghanaian man, American man and Nigerian man were lost in a forest and were captured by cannibals. The king of the cannibals told the three friends that they could live if... they pass a trial.

Ace waste management company, Zoomlion Ghana Limited has handed over a modern sanitary engineered landfill site to the government of Liberia.

The District Chief Executive for Jomoro, Mr Sylvester Dadie, has appealed to fishermen to apply approved fishing methods to avoid depletion of fish stock.

A Basic Design and Technology (BDT) Teacher, Ms Rebecca Walker on Tuesday called on government to provide workshop for the various component of the BDT to enable students get a practical feel of whatever was taught in the classroom.

The Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU) of the Ghana Police Service has quashed claims by the Private Motorbike Operators Union that the passage of the Road Traffic Regulation, which bans commercial motor bike operations, would push up youth unemployment.

A 27-year-old suspect, Stephen Quarshie, member of a gang of armed robbers specialised in robbing filling stations and big shops within Accra and Tema, has been grabbed by the Amansaman District Police Command.

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) is appealing to government to help it settle a six million dollar judgment debt awarded against it.