Ghana card mass registration begins April 29

April 30, 2019 The National Identification Authority (NIA) has announced that mass registration exercises for the Ghana Card will begin from April 29 to May 26, 2019 in the Greater Accra Region. The...

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Cotton sector to get $10m boost

April 30, 2019 RMG Ghana, an agro input company, is to invest $10 million in the Cotton industry under a five-year project. The investment will cover the supply of inputs to farmers, operational costs and...

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Ghana’s Finance Minister steers the World Bank/IMF Development Committee on Global Developmental Issues

April 29, 2019 Ghana, represented by Hon. Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, chaired the World Bank Development Committee meetings in Washington DC, where implicit concerns over employment amid...

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Veep launches first drone services … to enhance healthcare delivery

April 26, 2019 Access to vital health products is being hampered by the difficulty of supplying medicines from the central medical stores to remotely located patients; however, with the advent of drone...

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Manage planned MFIs clean-up with caution—ARB boss tells BoG

April 26, 2019 The decision of central bank to extend its financial sector clean-up down to the non-banking institutions is plausible, but will require a more cautious and helpful approach in order not to...

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Telcos yet to receive MoMo certification –GSMA

April 26, 2019 Talks are ongoing to have telecommunication operators in Ghana and other African countries certified in the usage of mobile money by the GSMA’s Mobile Money Certification – a platform...

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World Bank provides US$200m for electricity in West Africa, Sahel region

April 26, 2019 The World Bank Group has approved  the Regional Off-Grid Electrification Project (ROGEP), which includes US$150million in the form of credit and grants from the International...

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Banks’ average lending rate inches up, hits 27.8%

April 25, 2019 Even though the country’s policy rate has been trending downward for the past two years and banks are now using the Ghana Reference Rate – a formula that allows the policy rate to...

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BoG bares teeth – Warns forex bureaux to conform to rules

April 25, 2019 The Bank of Ghana (BoG) says it will crack the whip on recalcitrant forex bureau operators who fail to comply with the laws governing forex trading in the country. The clampdown, which will...

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West Africa’s mobile economy to reach US$70bn by 2023 – report

April 24, 2019 The economic value of mobile technologies and services is expected to hit US$70billion – representing 9.5 percent of GDP by 2023 in West Africa, the Mobile Economy West Africa report has...

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