The GSE All-Share Index, the benchmark measure of performance of the Ghana Stock Exchange, lost a whopping 86.42 points on Friday to end a week of unimpressive performance. The index closed the session lower at 9,836.84 points as against 9,923.28 at the previous close on Thursday, pulled down by Ecobank Ghana price loss. Change for [...]
Read the rest of this story »Ghana and Japan on Friday signed two separate agreements for a road project and support for small and medium scale enterprises. Under the first grant, Ghana would receive 1.2 million dollars for the cost of detailed design for the rehabilitation of the 60-kilometre Anwiankwanta-Yamoransa truck road, called N8. The road stretches from Anwiankwanta, near Kumasi, [...]
Read the rest of this story »Dr Kwabena Duffour, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, would present the budget statement and economic policy of the government for the year 2009 in Parliament on Thursday, March 5. Mr Alban Bagbin, Majority Leader, announced this on Friday when he presented the Business Statement for the eighth week, ending Friday, March 6, 2009. He [...]
Read the rest of this story »The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has directed that henceforth all HIV/AIDS tests at settings, facilities and during outreach programmes must absolutely be at no cost to clients. This was contained in a circular signed by Dr. Elias K. Sory, Director- General of the Ghana Health Service and released in Kumasi on Thursday. It said the [...]
Read the rest of this story »An Accra Fast Track High Court on Friday sentenced three persons to 65 years imprisonment each for robbing a lecturer and his family of their belongings at gunpoint at Odorkor. Solomon Duodu, aka Alhaji, a barber, Eric Cobbina, aka Adolph Hitler, a shoemaker, and Kingsley Amankwah, aka Spider, a driver, pleaded not guilty to conspiracy [...]
Read the rest of this story »An Accra Fast Track High Court trying Daniel Charles Gyimah, Managing Director of the National Investment Bank (NIB), for wilfully causing financial loss to the state on Friday rejected his request to waive an aspect of his bail terms. His counsel, Colonel Alex Johnson (RTD) and Mr. Alex Osei-Wusu, referring to an order of the [...]
Read the rest of this story »Government is to review the draft oil law put in place by the previous Government and ensure that needed regulations and transparency measures are put in place. President John Evans Atta Mills said Government would also put agreements entered into, and future ones into the public domain. The President made the announcement at a New [...]
Read the rest of this story »The Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin, has congratulated Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo on his appointment as Eastern Regional Minister. In a statement released on Friday, the Okyenhene said he was aware of the huge challenges that Mr Ofosu-Ampofo was likely to face as a Regional Minister but expressed the hope that he would succeed. “Looking at [...]
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