BUSINESS

Ensure gold business flourishes – Duker charges new PMMC board

The Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources George Mireku Duker on Tuesday, 14 September, 2021, inaugurated a seven-member Board of the Precious Minerals Marketing Company (PMMC) to ensure that the business of Gold purchase in Ghana flourishes during their tenure in office. Administering the inaugural address on behalf of the Sector Minister, Mr Duker urged the PMMC Board to ...

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Akufo-Addo launches four Aluminium dev’t projects

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has launched the four key projects under the Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation (GIADEC) with the aim of ensuring the full utilisation of Ghana’s bauxite. They include the expansion of existing mine at Awaso and building of a refinery and the development of a mine at Nyinahin-Mapasaaso and a refinery solution. The others are the ...

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Tullow Ghana appoints Cynthia Lumor as Deputy MD

Tullow Ghana has announced the appointment of Mrs. Cynthia Lumor as Deputy Managing Director, effective 1st October 2021. Mrs. Lumor is the first to be appointed as Deputy Managing Director of Tullow Ghana since it began operations in 2006. Commenting on her appointment, Chief Executive Officer of Tullow, Rahul Dhir said: “I am delighted that Cynthia has been appointed to ...

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Dare to be entrepreneurs – Afenyo-Markin charges unemployed youth

Deputy Majority Leader and MP for Efuttu Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin, has advised unemployed youths to change their mindsets of seeking employment in government offices and receiving monthly salaries to rather daring to be entrepreneurs. He said with the right entrepreneurial spirits, the youth can build sustainable businesses for themselves, employ others and create sustainable wealth in the process. Speaking at ...

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Investments should be 3rd most important topic in Ghana after security and public finance – Kojo

Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has said that investment must be the third most important conversation in Ghana after security and public finance “That should in my view be the 3rd most important conversation in Ghana (after security and public finance),” he said in a tweet on the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) Annual Investment Summit dubbed #SparkUp2021 ! “I’m excited that ...

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Ghana’s economy managed to record a positive GDP growth in spite of Covid-pandemic – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said despite the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic and its effects on global economy, Ghana’s economy was able to record a positive Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth. He said this during the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) Annual Investment Summit dubbed #SparkUp2021 ! “ #Ghana’s economy was one of the few that managed to record a positive GDP growth, in ...

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Balenciaga rebrands ‘Ghana-must-go’ bag for $2,090

A trip down fashion street has uncovered the newest internet sensational shopping bag worth GHc12,454. 96p, which is quite similar to our ‘Ghana-must-go’ bag from Balenciaga. According to their official website, the Barbes Large East-West Shopper Bag is made in Italy with 100% calfskin. It also features two handles, a cotton lining, one inner zip pocket and one inner patch pocket. An ...

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SOEs consult on code of corporate governance

The State Interests and Governance Authority (SIGA) and the Ministry of Public Enterprises have organised a consultative forum on a Code of Corporate Governance. The one-day event, which came off at the Labadi Beach Hotel, was supported by Agence Francaise de Developpment (AFD), Expertise France and the World Bank. The forum was to solicit inputs and recommendations into a draft ...

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Ghana expected to generate $3bn from FDIs in 2021 – Yofi Grant

The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) Mr Yofi Grant has revealed that Ghana is expected to generate $3billion from Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) in 2021. He said this to journalists on the sidelines of the GIPC Annual Investment Summit dubbed #SparkUp2021! On Tuesday September 7. He said the revenues will come from the Agric sector ...

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Societe General Ghana declares dividend of GH¢0.114

Societe General Ghana PLC has announced that the company’s directors will be recommending to the shareholders at the upcoming Annual General Meeting, the payment of a final dividend of GH¢0.114 per share for the 2020 financial year. All shareholders registered in the books of the company at the close of business on Tuesday, 28 September 2021, will qualify for the ...

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