The Fast Track High Court has declared that it is unlawful
for the President of the Republic to dissolve the board of the Bank of Ghana
(BoG) before the board has served its full term.
Rlg Communications Limited, in partnership with Microsoft
Corporation, has launched a new technology which comes in the form of a laptop
that could be detached to be used as a tablet device.
President John Dramani Mahama has
bemoaned the effects of public sector pay reforms on the economy and said
government was going bankrupt as a result of the rising wage bill.
The founder and Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity Group,
Mr Edward Effah, joined about 100 business leaders from across Africa to
participate in IBM's Smarter Planet Leadership Forum held in Nairobi, Kenya, to
dialogue with IBM senior executives about taking advantage of big data and
disruptive shifts to support the continent's growth.
Businesses in Accra are having a tough time breaking even as
they spend a chunk of their profit to fuel generators, the cost of which has
also shot up, following the erratic power supply in recent times.
PBC Limited suffered a 64 per cent reduction in net profit before
tax, owing to some inherent challenges in the cocoa purchasing business, rising
operational costs and a general slowdown in cocoa output in the 2011/2012
season.
With so many young workers joining the labour force, more than 600 million jobs must be created by the end of the decade just to maintain today’s employment levels. The vast majority—90 percent, by most estimates—must come from the private sector. There is no alternative.
The Chief Executive Officer of the First National Savings
and Loans Limited, Mr Patrick Anumel, has expressed huge satisfaction at the
performance of the company in the 2012 financial year and has encouraged the
management and staff to work assiduously this year so as to double the
achievements of the previous year.
The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) has called on the government
to cede off some of the contracts in the oil and gas sector to local
enterprises in order to promote the growth of the local industries.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) which measures the change
over time in the general price level of goods and services that households
acquire stood at 8.8 per cent in January, the same as recorded in December
2012.
HP, an international
technology company, has commended the Ghanaian customs authorities, who
intercepted 20,000 fake supplies and components for HP printers being
transported to Africa from Asia.
Interplast Ghana Limited, producers of high quality pipes
and profiles has expanded its product line with the introduction of High Density
Polythylene pipes (HDPE).
The Managing Director of Zenith Bank (Ghana) Limited is
urging his peers in the industry to pull their resources together and
collaborate for the general good of the industry and the country rather than
setting their eyes only on competition which results into individual glories.
Access Bank (Ghana) Limited is to reward the first 100
customers to update their personal and business records at the bank with a
lifetime free-of-charge cost of transaction (COT) on the running of their
accounts with the bank.
Thirty-nine African countries are expected to arrive in
Ghana in May this year to attend the second edition of the African Congress of
Accountants (ACOA).
The National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI), in
collaboration with the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI) is to establish a
small and medium-scale (SME) fund.
Ghana got US$107.9 million as its share of revenue from oil
exports in the last quarter of 2012.
PBC Limited suffered a 64 per cent reduction in net profit before
tax, owing to some inherent challenges in the cocoa purchasing business, rising
operational costs and a general slowdown in cocoa output in the 2011/2012
season.
With so many young workers joining the labour force, more than 600 million jobs must be created by the end of the decade just to maintain today’s employment levels. The vast majority—90 percent, by most estimates—must come from the private sector. There is no alternative.
Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL) has launched
the 2013 edition of the Diageo Africa Business
Reporting Awards (DABRA) in Accra.
The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) has called on the government
to cede off some of the contracts in the oil and gas sector to local
enterprises in order to promote the growth of the local industries.
