BUSINESS

Menzgold customers frustrated over validation pace

Over 200 aggrieved Menzgold customers trooped the Osu verification center on Tuesday as part of processes of recovering their held up investments. However, these aggrieved customers have expressed frustration with the slow pace of the process. Menzgold on October 23 announced outlets in the various regions for their customers to …

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Ghana 2019/20 cocoa hits 44K tonnes by October 17 – Cocobod

Ghana’s graded and sealed (G&S) cocoa arrivals hit 44,000 tonnes between the start of this year’s harvest on October 1 and October 17, up 7.3% from the same period of the previous season, data from marketing board Cocobod showed on Monday. G&S is cocoa that has been quality checked and …

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Ei, so, there are 50,000 galamseyers in Ghana? Anokwale mpo!

K1 — KOO, Have you heard? K2 — You’re no doubt talking about the PBS nonsense? — Koo, it isn’t “nonsense”! It was a typical ‘free market’ scam that inevitably got unravelled… — How do you mean? — Who constituted PBS? Had you ever heard of any industrialist/trader/entrepreneur/body corporate mentioned …

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Windfall at 2020/21 cocoa sale: Ghana bags extra $40m

Ghana has earned $40 million extra revenue from the sale of cocoa beans for the 2020/21 crop season to be distributed to cocoa farmers. The amount was grossed from the sale of 100,000 tonnes of next season’s cocoa beans, according to data sighted by the Daily Graphic. The earnings are …

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Ofori-Atta inaugurates Energy Sector Recovery Programme steering committee

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has inaugurated a government-led Energy Sector Recovery Programme Steering Committee to help identify issues and propose solutions in the energy sector. The committee which consists of members across various sectors and ministries, is part of the governments’ initiative to collaborate with each Independent Power Producers …

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JOSPONG GROUP, Dr. Agyepong et All Win APSCA Awards in Ghana

The Africa Public Sector Conferences and Awards (APSCA) has awarded the Jospong Group of Companies (JGC), the Executive Chairman of JGC and Zoomlion Ghana Limited, Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyepong and the District Common Fund Administrator Naa Torshie Addo among others at its Second Africa Public Sector Awards night in Accra. …

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Pay us our $1.5bn to avert dumsor – IPPs to govt

The Chamber of Independent Power Producers, Distributors and Bulk Consumers (CIPDiB) has called on the Akufo-Addo-led administration to pay the $1.5 billion debt owed them to guarantee uninterrupted power supply. The chamber, in a statement signed by its CEO Mr Elikplim Kwabla Apetorgbor, said its members expected the delays in …

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Ghana to regain US FAA category 1 status

The country is tipped to regain its US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Category 1 status, the BFTonline reports. This follows the realignment of various policies, establishment of key institutions, and amendment of laws governing the aviation sector in line with international requirements over the past few years. The economic benefits …

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Advise your spouses to make good succession plans – Advocacy expert

Women in cocoa farming with their spouses are advised to prioritise legal issues regarding farmlands and other property acquired together, to forestall needless litigations in case one of them is no more. Mrs Doreen Asumang-Yeboah, a Networking and Advocacy Expert at Tropenbos Ghana, who gave the advice said the absence …

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Moshake appeals to Akufo-Addo to fix Premix-fuel shortage

Stephen Ashitey Adjei, an Executive Member of the National Democratic Congress in Tema East, has called on President Akufo-Addo to direct attention to problems in the premix fuel distribution chain in Tema. Speaking at a news conference in Accra, the man who is popularly known as Moshake, said inconsistencies in …

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