BUSINESS

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has launched the 2021 Ghana National Skills Competition and TVET Expo in Accra, organised by the Commission for Technical and Vocational Training (CTVET). Speaking at the launch on Wednesday, 27, October 2021, Dr Bawumia said the government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has remained committed to the promotion of technical and vocational training (TVET,) ...

The maiden edition of the Youth Economic Forum, will be held at the Kempinski Hotel in Accra on 19th October. The hybrid event will feature top notch panelists, made up of young Ghanaian innovators and entrepreneurs alongside decision makers, discussing pertinent issues on the economy, employment and entrepreneurship. The Forum was developed to enable young Ghanaians to connect and contribute ...

In its quest to strengthen its foothold in the country’s oil and gas industry, the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) has acquired commercial interests in the Jubilee and the TEN fields. The national oil company now has seven per cent commercial interest in both the Jubilee and the TEN fields, having taken over part of the interest of one of ...

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has inaugurated the newly-constituted board of the Minerals Income Investment Fund. He inaugurated the board in Accra on Tuesday October 12. With a three-year mandate, the reconstituted board has been charged to consolidate gains and also deliver solutions to Ghana’s infrastructural sector. “There is a gap of literally over two billion dollars that we must be ...

The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has announced the removal of the Price Stabilisation and Recovery Levies on petrol, diesel and LPG for a period of two months. The NPA in a statement said President Akufo-Addo gave the approval for zero Price Stabilisation and Recovery Levies following the advice of the NPA to seek government’s intervention to mitigate the impact of ...

MTN Ghana Foundation has provided startups and seed monies to girls liberated from Trokosi shrines in parts of the Volta Region and given vocational skill training at Baptist Vocational Training Institute. In 1998, Ghana outlawed trokosi, an old age cultural practice where fetish priests take young virgin girls, in payment for services or in religious atonement for alleged misdeeds of ...

Former Member of Parliament for Ledzokuku, Dr Bernard Okoe-Boye has commended the Interim Management Committee for commissioning internal investigations in the operations of the refinery which uncovered the rot. He has asked the Police, The Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) and the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) to take up the matter and further investigate it. His comments come after ...

Access Bank has in collaboration with Coronation Insurance launched an innovative product called Business Protection Insurance for Business Success which translates ‘W’adwuma Bambo Nti’ at the National Theater in Accra. The launch was attended by various stakeholders including representatives of Traders Advocacy Group Ghana (TAGG) and heads of Access Bank and Coronation Insurance. Following the wave in fire outbreaks, flood ...

Ghana Tech Lab, an Ecosystem hub has launched the Ghana Startup Ecosystem Ranking 2020. Developed as an initiative of the Ghana Startup Ecosystem Mapping that seeks to build a stronger ecosystem, the ranking measures the nature and level of Ghana’s Startup Ecosystem in 13 regions across Ghana, currently. The Ghana Startup Ecosystem Mapping forms part of the Pathways to Sustainable ...

For the first time in about 60 years, the Bank of Ghana (BoG) has purchased gold to augment its gold reserves and shore up the country’s foreign assets. The bank bought 280 kilogrammes of the precious metal this year under a historic gold purchase programme meant to double its gold reserves and supplement the traditional ways that the country has ...