BUSINESS

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has challenged Ghanaian investors to take advantage of the business relations existing between Ghana and Sudan to make significant investments that would bring them appreciable returns. Dr. Bawumia, who threw the challenge when he hosted the Minister of State at the Ministry of Investment of Sudan, Mr. Osama Faisal Elsayed Ali at the Flagstaff ...

SIC Life Savings and Loans has won the BID International Arch of Europe Award for demonstrating a commitment to quality service delivery and innovation. The Company, a subsidiary of SIC Life has clocked a healthy growth within a short time of operation by offering profitable financial solutions and innovative products designed to meet the growing demands in the sector. Managing ...

The second edition of the quarterly Nestle-Nido Nutrition Awareness Campaign for mothers and children has been held at the Kwashieman Basic School in Accra. The event witnessed an excellent performance by mothers during a nutritional quiz competition held as part of the program. After the elimination of three contestants, the battle was drawn between Roselyn Amoasi and Abigail France. After ...

US$150 million worth of fruit juice is imported into Ghana each year, while fruit juice processing factories in the country are said to be collapsing. Only US$ 40 million worth of juice representing 28 percent of total domestic demand is produced in the country. 99 percent of these major factories including Coastal Groove in the Central Region, Coco Bean also ...

ivingstone Etse Satekla, known in showbiz as Stonebwoy is rallying young people across the country to go into the production of cocoa as a means earning a decent livelihood for themselves. According to the dancehall sensation, the cocoa sector which is one of the biggest exports earners of Ghana, risks extinction due to the aging numbers of farmers, hence the ...

The installation of a multi-purpose satellite ground station at Sunyani, the Brong Ahafo Region capital, by the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) means Ghana joins eight others around the globe that receives improves atmospheric data. The Ground Station at UENR which is estimated at around US$1.2 million, predicts accurate weather and climate conditions that would be of immense ...

Cocoa farmers have hailed the decision by the government to subsidize fertilizer stressing that it will help in ensuring that they get the right quality and quantity for their businesses. They said the previous policy by the former administration to provide fertilizer free of charge, did not help them since many farmers did not get the right quantities needed. It ...

A former deputy Attorney General and Minster of Justice Dr. Dominic Ayine has poopooed warnings by the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) that the minority’s insistence of insider-trading and conflict of interest in the issuance of the $2.25 billion bond could spell doom for the country’s economy. The Minority Wednesday petitioned the Securities and Exchange Commission in Luxembourg in its ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will today July 6, 2017 commission the FPSO John Agyekum Kufuor to begin production of oil in commercial quantities in the Offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP) oilfields in the Western Region. The Floating Production and Storage Vessel (FPSO) was named in honor of the former President; John Agyekum Kufuor in Singapore in February this year ...

The Ghana Insurers Association (GIA) has told Citi Business News it will come out with a comprehensive data base of all insurance holders in the country to help reduce insurance fraud. The move is also targeted at improving information sharing among insurance companies to synchronize information provided by clients. Speaking to Citi Business News at a forum organized by Dun ...