Category: Business

The Ghana Community Network Service Limited (GCNet) has filed a motion at the Accra High Court (Labour Division) challenging the enforcement of an arbitration award to its workers. The company is seeking the intervention of the court to set aside the award which directed the management to pay a redundancy package of 30 per cent...

AXIS Pensions Trust Limited has rolled out an educative programme on personal finances to help sensitise the public to the rudiments of proper financial management. Dubbed ‘Axis Smart Money Talk,’ the programme features a discussion with an expert on finance and is broadcast virtually on the company’s Facebook page. In a release on the programme,...

Business for Peace Foundation has announced the launch of their Future of Business programme, a new global impact-driven event series focused on accelerating development towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through investments and entrepreneurship in the Global South. In collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) the...

Ghana International Bank plc has announced the appointment of Baafuor Ohene Abankwa as Head of Client Coverage for its Africa Business. He will be responsible for managing the African Coverage Team and is tasked with leading the growth into new markets in East and Central Africa whilst ensuring the continuous delivery of value to the...

The government has decided to suspend the launch of the Initial Public Offer (IPO) of the Agyapa Royalties deal on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The Ministry of Finance has said it does not intend to proceed with the IPO ahead of the results of the corruption risk assessment by the Office of the Special Prosecutor....

The National Board and Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) has been inundated with compliant from businesses seeking assistance to complete their application processes in order to access the stimulus package. In an interview with the Graphic Business on October 3 in Accra, the Public Relations Coordinator of the NBSSI, Mr Kestine Owusu Poku, said the board...

An insurance firm, Hollard Ghana, has announced the addition of general insurance to its partnership with a retail outlet, Melcom Limited, following endorsement by the National Insurance Commission (NIC). Already offering Hollard life insurance products, the addition is to enable Melcom Limited to offer non-life insurance products to its shoppers at convenient Hollard on-the-go booths...

Guinness Ghana has donated prescribed safety tools worth GH₵692,000 to tourist and bar operators to support efforts by the government to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the country. The amount went into veronica bucket distribution and educational posters to drive adherence to the COVID-19 safety protocol among others to keep tourist...

The President of Civil and Local Government Staff Association, Ghana(CLOGSAG), Dr Evans Dzikum, has asked workers to make a deliberate effort to invest part of their earnings in the voluntary Tier 3 pension scheme administered by private entities. He said that was the surest way to what he described as a happy old age as...

The National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) has facilitated the creation of some 21,892 new jobs in the last three and half years. It has also facilitated access to GH38.53 million as credit facility between January 2017 and March 2020 to 14,738 businesses out of which about 68.3 per cent are women owned and...