The Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has, on Wednesday June 15, 2022, launched the GhanaPay Mobile Money Service in Accra. The GhanaPay is the first bank-wide mobile money service by universal banks, rural banks as well as savings and loans companies to individuals and businesses. The GhanaPay service, which operates like the existing mobile money […]
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The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has, on Monday June 13, 2022 cut the sod for the construction of a 167-kilometer highway from Tamale through Yendi to Tatale in the Northern Region. The massive highway, which has significant portions of it untarred for decades under successive governments, forms part of the Eastern Corridor road linking […]
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Ghana: DBG Must Emulate Germany’s KFW
At long last, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo launched the operations of the Development Bank Ghana (DBG) yesterday. This is a bank established in 2017 and received in 2020 its licence from the regulator, Bank of Ghana, in essence, as a commercial banking institution. The launch of its operations now makes it a typical development […]
Development Bank Ghana (DBG) has received nearly $800 million from its shareholders to begin operations, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), KwaminaDuker, has said. “To date, our capital and funding have come from the Government of Ghana, World Bank, European Investment Bank (EIB), African Development Bank (AfDB) and KfW. DBG has GH¢1.2 billion in capital. We have […]
A legislative instrument (L.I.) to enforce buffer zone regulations to check the pollution of water bodies by human activities is in the offing, the Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Cecelia Abena Dapaah, has indicated. According to her, the L.I. would strengthen regulatory processes of watersheds across the country to conserve water resources. “Additionally, a […]
The 2022 K-Balm National Armwrestling Championship is set to come off on Friday with support from Max Fly Energy Drink and other brands targeted at making the event a success. Powered by Perception Management International, the one-day national armwrestling championship under the auspices of the Ghana Armwrestling Federation (GAF) is an annual exercise to recruit […]
In their attempt to dismantle a roadblock mounted by the students of the Islamic Senior High School (SHS) in the vicinity of their school to ensure free flow of traffic and restore law and order, the police in Kumasi fired warning shots to disperse the students. Following that, at least 20 students of the SHS […]
The Minister for Transport, Mr Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, has hinted that all unauthorised structures situated on land belonging to the Regional Maritime University (RMU) in Accra will be demolished. The Minister explained that the land located at Nunguahas over the years been encroached upon by private developers, making it difficult for development projects to be […]
The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has launched the No Guarantor Student Loan Policy at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technolgy (KNUST) in Kumasi, on Wednesday June 8, 2022. The No Guarantor Student Loan Policy, a promise by the Akufo-Addo government prior to the 2020 elections, is to make tertiary education accessible to […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called on Ghanaian manufacturing industries to take advantage of the access to expanded markets created by the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement. President Akufo-Addo said one of the main challenges that have affected Africa’s industrialisation drive is the lack of access to expanded markets. He said economies […]
Songwriter and social activist, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy, has said he will leave Nigeria if the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, or his counterpart of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, wins the 2023 presidential election. Tinubu won the APC presidential primary election […]
The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, on Tuesday, inaugurated TVET Service headquarters and the Applied Technology Institute in Accra. The $131m projects comprise classroom blocks, ICT centres, administration blocks, workshops, male and female dormitories, and workshop equipment. The Vice President also handed over 37 buses, 21 double cabin pickups, two tractors, three Toyota Fortuner and […]
The transmission lines of the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDco) are under threat due to the activities of encroachers on the Right-of-Way. This does not only threaten high tension electrical towers and power supply but also the lives of the encroachers and passers-by. The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Grid Company, Ebenezer Kofi Essienyi, who […]
Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia (Hand raise) looking at an artiste impression of the TVET Institutions Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has cut sod for the construction of 32 Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions across the country. When completed, each region will have two such centres, to further increase access to technical […]
The U.S. government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and the Government of Ghana formally completed the 5-year, $316 million MCC-Ghana Power Compact today, celebrating a partnership that created a more effective, sustainable, and inclusive power sector in Ghana. “Today, we join the Government of Ghana in celebrating a successful five-year grant program that has had a […]
The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has signalled for work to begin on the construction of Phase One of 32 State of the Art Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) facilities to be built across the country in furtherance of Government’s goal of making Ghana a world-class centre for skills development and also make […]
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has commissioned one hundred (100) mercury-free gold processing equipment, commonly referred to as “Gold Katcha”, for use by small-scale miners across the country. Commissioning the equipment at the Independence Square on Monday, 6th June 2022, President Akufo-Addo described the acquisition of the gold processing equipment as […]
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Ghana: Kotoko Stun OLY
Kumasi Asante Kotoko showed no signs of complacency as they edged Accra Great Olympics 1-0 at the Accra Sports Stadium in a Ghana Premier League (GPL) match week 32 fixture, yesterday. A moment of brilliance from striker Franck MbellaEtouga in the 69th minute restored him as leader on the goal king charts, increasing his tally […]