Ghana, the world’s no. 2 cocoa grower, is headed for its biggest harvest in at least a decade after good weather and government interventions helped boost its output, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The Minister for Energy, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has sworn in a three-member Interim Management Committee (IMC) to oversee the affairs of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) as part of efforts to restructure and revamp the refinery.
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has said it will not honour an invitation by a parliamentary ad hoc committee petitioned to probe the collapse of Unibank Ghana Limited and UT Bank.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has launched the Ghana Enterprises Agency (formerly NBSSI), the National Micro, Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises (MSMEs) and Entrepreneurship Policy, and the GEA Grant Support for SMEs, under the Ghana Economic Transformation Project, which is backed by the World Bank.
The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC-Ghana) is pushing for a review of the current deregulation policy in the petroleum sector, proposing that the Gulf cooperation model will best serve the interest of Ghanaians.
An association that seeks to empower women in agriculture, the Chamber of Women in Agribusiness Ghana, has launched this year’s edition of the Miss Agriculture Ghana Pageant.
Deputy Minister-designate for Finance, John Ampontuah Kumah has said Ghana can create 10,000 millionaires through youth entrepreneurship in the next 10 years provided government continues to invest in entrepreneurship just as it did in its first term.
The Executive Director of energy think tank Institute for Energy Security (IES), Nana Amoasi VII, says government should empower the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) to take over the exploitation of stranded hydrocarbon resources.
