Ghanaian farmers can now heave a sigh of relief in the fight against fall armyworm infestation, following the discovery of a non-toxic formulation that effectively deals with the menace. The discovery by the Ghanaian Company, Equatorial Healthcare Services, comes after research into the development of a non-toxic formulation that can …

The banking sector has recorded a growth in profit-after-tax of GH¢2.24 billion, a 38.4 per cent growth over profits recorded by the banking sector for the same period last year (43.9 per cent growth in August 2018). This was captured in the bank of Ghana’s Banking sector report for September …

  The Minority in Parliament has revealed that the government has planned to pump a whopping $5 million out of a 600 million-dollar loan meant raise cocoa production in the country to purchase chocolate for students. Member of Parliament (MP) for Asunafo South and Ranking Member for Parliament’s Agric committee, …

The District Chief Executive (DCE) of Dormaa East in the Bono Region, Emmanuel Kofi Agyeman has called on telecommunication companies to devise more innovative services to complement government’s digitalisation agenda such as the cashless system. He noted that the growth of mobile telecommunication made telecos inevitable actors in achieving the …

  A shea butter processing factory, to be constructed under the government’s ‘One District, One Factory’ programme at Bogrigo, in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region will engage about 200 people in the District when completed. Mr. Peter Ayinbisa Ayamga, the District Chief Executive (DCE) for the area …

An Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Ghana is calling for the re-assessment of government spending as well as a consideration for improving its tax effort. Prof Abena D. Oduro delivering the fourth Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu Memorial Lecture said government’s budget is skewed towards consumption expenditure …

  Stakeholders have called on the Ministry of Finance (MoF) to release at least 80 percent of allocations from the Annual Budget Funding Amount (ABFA) to the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to enable them to execute their duties effectively for national development. The call follows research conducted in beneficiary …

  The world’s two largest cocoa producers, Ivory Coast and Ghana, have committed to joining forces to end all forms of child labour in the cocoa industry. In a communiqué, the countries said: “We reaffirm our commitment to eradicating child labour and deforestation in cocoa and will collaborate with all …

About 175 million citizens in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) sub-region are living without electricity. This represents 50 per cent of the 350 million citizens in the 16 member economic block covering the entire region. Dr Mahama Kappiah Executive Director of ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and …

  The World Bank Board of Directors approved today US$150 million in financing to support the government to improve the quality of education for over two million children in low performing basic education schools, and to strengthen the country’s education system. “The project focuses on underserved areas and on improving …

Ghanaian Team-based rapper, Ponobiom, says there is a need for the government to enforce laws to control marijuana if it intends decriminalising it. According to him, legalising it without protocols limiting certain factors to control its usage would cause more harm than good in Ghana. Speaking on Daybreak Hitz on …

  Prince Akwaboah, Officer in Charge of Auctions at the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority has emphasized that Customs is the only organization mandated to auction confiscated cars, therefore, the general public should desist from engaging persons who lure them into buying auction cars. “As far as it …

  Farmers in the Sunyani West District have complained over high cost of fertilizers, despite government subsidies under the implementation of the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJs) programme. They lauded the PFJs programme, but added that the cost of NPK fertilizer was still high, and required downward adjustments to …

  Local car manufacturer, Kantanka Automobile has revealed that the company doubled its production capacity to some 250 units last year. The company attributed the increase to the high demand of cars from neighbouring country, Nigeria as it produced some 400 cars to hit the market. “Production is currently still …

  The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has indicated the government’s intention to construct more airports to serve as feeders to the Kotoka International Airport (KIA). According to the President, it is also a way to open up the country to the rest of the continent in the interest of …

The Communications Minister has directed Mobile Network Operators (MNO) to ensure that unused data and voice bundles purchased by their subscribers do not expire. Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful said the unused data must be rolled over to the next data purchased by subscribers. The letter addressed to the Director-General of the …

  The telecommunication companies in Ghana have been ordered to cease the instant deduction of the Communications Service Tax also known as Talk Tax. “To minimize the negative impact of the current mode of deduction of the CST, the Ministry of Communications hereby directs the immediate implementation of the following …

The Minority in Parliament is blaming the reduction in benchmark values at the country’s ports as a major contributory factor to the shortfall in the government’s revenue. Ranking Member of the Finance Committee of Parliament, Cassiel Ato Forson explains that the policy has not yielded the needed revenue six months …

Ranking Member on Parliament’s Finance Committee, Cassiel Ato Forson, has “strongly disagreed” with claims of sabotage by the Telcos in the implementation of the 9% increment in the Communication Service Tax (CST). Chairman of Parliament’s Finance Committee, Dr. Mark Assibey Yeboah on Wednesday claimed that the instant talk tax deductions …

The Tree Crop Development Authority (TCDA) Bill will be passed by Parliament to receive Presidential Assent by the end of this year, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, the Minister of Food and Agriculture, has said. The Bill, when passed into law, is expected to provide great relief to farmers of tree …

Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo has lamented over Ghana spending US$1.35 billion last year on rice importation alone. According to him, foreign exchange that could be used on machinery to modernise the economy was spent on rice although rice could be grown in every part of the country. Mr Osafo-Maafo made …

Nii Odartey Lamptey, the Head of Card and Payment Solution, Stanbic Bank, has said the Bank has outlined strategies to educate the public on usage of credit card to rub out the misperceptions about it. He said people misconceived that using a credit card, kept one in debt forever, and …

  The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), Mr Yofi Grant, has been elected as the director representing sub-sahara Africa of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agency. His election was after a meeting that ended at Warsaw, the capital of Poland on Tuesday 8th October, …

The Government of Ghana will ensure that all issues relating to roads in the country including payment of contractors are addressed before the country enters 2020, an election year, Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has said. Speaking to Accra-based Joy FM Monday 7th October, 2019, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta said: “We have …

The Bank of Ghana is seeking to auction a total of $125,000,000 for the fourth quarter of 2019; spanning October to December. The exercise is expected to be carried out in five tranches covering the three months. For each tranche, the Central bank is seeking to auction $25,000,000. A notice …

As part of the customer service week on the theme “Service is magical” the Chamber for Tourism Industry Ghana has trained the General Managers of Ghana’s 50 top hotels in Ghana. Out of every 11 people employed in the world, 1 person is from the tourism industry including hospitality. At …

The government has announced it is going to change power installation at the Jubilee House to solar power in the coming days as part of a bigger national agenda to promote the use of solar energy in the country. Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo who disclosed this at the opening of …

The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA), has described the recent closure of Nigeria’s trade borders to Benin and other neighbouring countries as Ghana as an outright breach of ECOWAS treaties. President of the Association, Dr Joseph Obeng tells JoyBusiness failure on the part of the Foreign Affairs Ministry as …

General Secretary of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU), Solomon Kotei, has said it would not be surprising if the Komenda Sugar Factory were sold. He told Kwabena Agyapong on Frontline on Rainbow Radio 87.5Fm that the decision to sell the factory is an open secret but a bad …

Rob Shutter, CEO of telecom giant MTN, has said that over the last twenty five years the company has employed five million people on the African continent. Similarly, he said the company has built high-speed networks covering 560 million people and through MTN Mobile Money connected 30 million people to …