The Management of SIC Insurance, Ghana’s preferred insurer and the leadership of the Professional footballers Association of Ghana (PFAG) has announced an insurance cover for players of the Ghana Premiere League. This was made known over the weekend when a delegation from both sides visited the coach and some players of the Asante Kotoko team who … Read more
Erratic power supply, high inflation, high taxes, exchange rate volatility, and the high cost of credit, among a host of other business crippling factors, led the industrial sector down a negative growth path last year. Quarterly GDP figures released by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) last week show that the sector recorded a year-on-year annual … Read more
Erratic power supply, high inflation, high taxes, exchange rate volatility, and the high cost of credit, among a host of other business crippling factors, led the industrial sector down a negative growth path last year. Quarterly GDP figures released by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) last week show that the sector recorded a year-on-year annual … Read more
The Association of Ghana industries has asked the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) to put in adequate measures to ensure that items produced in the country were of high standards. That, according to the President of AGI, Mr James Asare Adjei, was necessary if Ghanaian businesses were desirous of competing equally with their foreign counterparts. He … Read more
Dealers of second-hand spare parts across the country have not reduced prices of their wares although the government has scrapped the import levy on such items as promised, Ampadu Siaw, Chairman of the Second-hand Spare Parts Dealers Association of Ghana, has said. According to him, although parliament has also approved the removal of the levy, … Read more
The Chairman of the Western Region Chapter of the Referees’ Association of Ghana (RAG), Richard Atiffu has spit venom at the Ghana Football Association for their failure to help develop referees in the country. According to the retired FIFA referee, the Kwesi Nyantakyi-led body is a catalyst in the fallen standards of refereeing in Ghana. … Read more
Many of the deaths that occur on our roads that we comfortably refer to as accidents, are actually not accidents but “suicides and murders” occasioned by suicidal drivers and murderous stakeholders who enjoy counting the number of dead people through accidents per year instead of actually doing what will end the carnage. If an individual … Read more
Vice President of the Association of Ghana industries, Mr. Humphrey Ayim Darkeh has said that business confidence in the Ghanaian economy has surged up not because the business structures have changed but as result of the change in government. “There is a new administration in power and people are expecting taxes and electricity tariffs to … Read more
Until recently, Edwumawura was only a nickname to business mogul and 2016 Presidential Candidate of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom. With 60 companies now under his holding company – the Groupe Nduom (GN) – and thousands of mouths depending on his vision and direction for a living, Edwumawura, which is the … Read more
The Consumer Protection Agency has blamed the high cost of both residential and commercial properties in Ghana on the monopoly enjoyed by Ghana Cement (GHACEM). According to the CPA, Ghacem often increases prices of cement without taking into consideration the plight of the consumer due to the lack of competition. The comments follow recent concerns … Read more
The Executive Secretary of the Importers and Exporters Association of Ghana, Sampson Asaaki Awingobit has taken a swipe at the local cement manufacturers over concerns that Chinese manufacturers are taking over their jobs. According to him, the argument being raised by the Cement Manufacturers’ Association of Ghana holds no basis. Mr. Awingobit believes the industry … Read more
The Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Ekwow Spio Garbrah has told Citi Business News Ghana does not possess the capacity yet to provide the needed quantity of cement to satisfy the country’s cement demand. According to him, the quantity manufactured in Ghana is not enough to meet demand. “The ministry is actually seeking an … Read more
Eight (8) Universities that run Communication Programmes have registered to participate in this year’s Newsroom Competition organised by Cheetah Communications in collaboration with Ghana Journalists Association, Advertising Association of Ghana and Institute of Public Relations, Ghana. The Newsroom Competition is a simulated News Reporting, Corporate Communications and Debating contest among tertiary institutions that offer communication … Read more
Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, Minister of Trade & Industry, is said to be busily issuing cement licences to Chinese importers to import substandard cement even before a nine-member committee mandated by Parliament and the Trade Ministry to handle such matters meets on Tuesday, 6th September. One of such permits sighted by BUSINESS GUIDE at the weekend and … Read more