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The government has given a cheque of GH₵2,029,000 to some 98 victims whose businesses were directly affected by a fire disaster that occurred on Monday, July 5, 2021, at the Makola Market in the Central Business District of Accra. The…

The Ghana National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GNCCI) has called on the government to work with key stakeholders to provide targeted technical, financial, and infrastructural support in building competitive Ghanaian enterprises and…

The newly inducted Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Professor Nana Aba Appiah Amfo, has appealed to the government for students tax waiver to acquire laptops and handheld devices for their studies. According to the first…

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected economic improvement in Ghana, pegging real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at 6.2% for 2022. This is higher than the IMF’s expectation of 4.7% by the end of 2021, following a rebound…

The African Development Bank’s Board of Directors has officially approved a $75 million commercial loan to the Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund (GIIF). The loan, is to enable GIIF, efficiently leverage its paid-in equity capital of…

Yields from the country’s bond market rose, with the Ghana Fixed Income Market’s two-year Treasury note going up from 15.33% in August 2021 to 17.5% in September 2021. The medium-term maturities including the three-year, five-year, as…

The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has urged the government to adopt pragmatic measures in the 2022 budget to halt illicit financial flows and seal loopholes in the tax system to rake in more revenue for development. Ghana loses a…

The Minority Caucus in Parliament has called on the government to scrap the Special Petroleum Tax on petroleum products in the 2022 Budget to provide some relief to Ghanaians. It said crude oil price, with a bench-mark price of US$54.75…

The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has summoned police officers who allegedly manhandled the Member of Parliament (MP) for Madina, Francis-Xavier Sosu, during a demonstration by his constituents over bad roads. This follows a…

The number of job opportunities for Ghanaians, especially the youth, has seen a reduction of 13.9% for the second quarter of 2021, data provided by the Bank of Ghana (BoG) in its quarterly bulletin has shown. This is because the number…