BUSINESS

AngloGold Ashanti’s Obuasi mine is expected to ramp-up its mining rate from 2,000 tonnes per day to 4,000 tonnes per day in the first quarter of next year. This is due to slower shipments of certain equipment to Ghana and difficulties in ensuring key, skilled employees can travel to the …

Joseph Boahen Aidoo, Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), has lamented the rate at which illegal small scale miners (galamseyers) are destroying cocoa farms in the country. He said the activities of these miners are destroying the backbone of the Ghanaian economy, a situation that could have …

The Bolgatanga Municipal Police Command has arrested 26 market women for not abiding by social distancing order to demonstrate against the Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly. The women were also beaten by police officers on orders of the Bolgatanga Municipal Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Richard Anaba Salifu. The market women, numbering over 100, took …

Mr. Michael Awuah, the first vice chairman of NPP-Japan branch has reiterated his unflinching support for the running of the ports and harbours by UNIPASS spearheaded by Ghana Link Service Ltd., in conjunction with Customs UNIPASS international Agency (CUPIA), of the Korean Customs Service.    He argues that GCNET and …

Have a better relationship with your money, don’t lend it to people who will not pay you back. Lending money to some people is like creating a problem for oneself. Ever lent your money to someone only to have problems with them when it’s time to pay back the money? …

The Ministry of Finance has described as false and misleading, report by the fact-checkghana.com of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) suggesting that Government has shared different macroeconomic data with Ghanaians and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Factcheck-ghana.com has said it crosschecked the data submitted to the IMF by …

Despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the aviation sector, the Aviation Ministry has indicated that it will continue engaging investors to reach an agreement soon for the establishment of a national carrier. “On the home-based carrier, it is my intention to push on with the initiative and to engage investors, …

Dr Gideon Boako, Spokesperson of the Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has revealed that several businesses collapsed as a result of the erratic power supply (Domsor) during the Mahama administration. He said on the Newsfile programme on Joy FM Saturday, May 9 that the dumsor occurred as a result of incompetence …

General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia has reiterated that the opposition party will not be part of Peace FM’s Morning Show ‘Kokrokoo’ until their demands are met. According to him, the NDC has had an 8-month running battle with the show’s production team on the …

Some inmates in police cells in the Greater Region have tested positive for coronavirus, the head of the regional command has disclosed. DCOP Fred Adu-Anim told journalists Saturday that the undisclosed number of inmates have since been sent to an isolation centre also in Accra.   “We have tested some …