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First Deoputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana Dr Maxwell Opoku-Afari has noted that the critical role of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) in the Ghanaian economy is incontrovertible and the need to support them to contribute meaningfully to the national development agenda has been unanimously established at this forum. With a stack of foundational infrastructure currently in place, ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, says an opposition leader does not need to fight the one in power to portray his party as a credible alternative government. According to him, some people have the mindset that the noble art of opposition is to fight the ruling government for electoral advantage, saying an opposing leader does not “oppose ...

Government spokesperson on infrastructure, Richard Asante Yeboah, has stated that President Akufo-Addo’s Agenda 111 initiative seeks to provide equality when it comes to health care delivery to Ghanaians across the length and breadth of the country. He pointed out that government have realized that due to the creation of new regions in the country, there have been constituencies and districts ...

The Producer Price Inflation (PPI) rate for July 2021 was 8.4 per cent, the Ghana Statistical Service has said. This rate indicates that between July 2020 and July 2021 (year-on-year), the PPI increased by 8.4 per cent. This rate represents a 1.7 percentage point decrease in producer inflation relative to the rate recorded in June 2021 (10.1%). The month-on-month change ...

The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel A. Jinapor, on Tuesday, August 17, 2021 swore into office an 11-member Ministerial Advisory Board for the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources with a call on the members to provide a strategic plan and clear policy direction to support the Ministry and its agencies to execute their mandate. Section 39 of ...

Some aggrieved caterers of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) have made a fierce demand on the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to sack the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Sarah Adwoa Safo, for being “too incompetent”. The caterers accused the Minister of not only sleeping on the job, but also demonstrating early signs of incompetence in the ...

Ghana has recorded 15 more covid-19 related deaths, bringing he total number of fatalities to 945 as of August 14. According to the Ghana Health Service (GHS), the country currently has 6,265 active cases nationwide, with the Greater Accra Region reporting 3,415 of the total cases. One hundred and twenty-eight active cases are severe while 51 others are said to ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has expressed his disappointment with the Electoral Commission’s refusal to receive the post-2020 electoral reform proposals submitted by the National Democratic Congress (NDC). Speaking in an interview on URA Radio in Bolgatanga, Mr. Mahama said the Commission in refusing to receive the proposals asked the NDC to rather send the proposals to the IPAC. This, ...

Former President John Mahama says the NDC has learnt its lessons following the controversial loss in the 2020 elections. Addressing party executives and supporters in Bolgatanga in the Upper East region, President Mahama assured them that the NDC, in the 2024 elections, would put all measures in place to win on the ground and avoid going to the Supreme Court ...

James Buduor, a Ghanaian Co-Founder of the Global mentorship platform ADPList and his partner today announced a US$1.3 million in funding from Surge, a rapid scale-up program by Sequoia Capital India for startups in India and Southeast Asia. ADPList is a platform for people to find, book and meet mentors around the world, providing anyone with access to some of ...