The commercial component of Ghana’s total external debt has exceeded 50 percent— which is more than double the share two decades ago when the country was classified as a Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC).
MTN MoMo has announced that effective today April 2, all MoMo customers will be required to present valid ID cards before any MoMo cash-out (withdrawal) transaction can be processed.
Mr Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, Minister of Transport has announced that tentatively scheduled commercial flights to the Ho Aerodrome would start in two weeks barring any unforeseen glitches.
The Ghana Grid Company Limited, GRIDCo has in a statement said they have no intention of embarking on a nationwide load shedding programme popularly referred to as ‘dumsor’.
Ghana has successfully issued a record size Eurobond of US$3.25 billion while enhancing its market access through the use of a 4-year Zero-Coupon Tranche, the first emerging market Sovereign to add a zero-coupon bullet tranche to its bond financing portfolio.
In June, it is estimated that three hundred thousand (300,000) companies and businesses risk deletion from the company/business registers. A B&FT news report of 19th March 2021 quoted the Registrar-General, Mrs Jemima M. Oware as issuing a final public notice - “kindly note that if at the expiration of three months from the date of this notice, the Company has still not filed its Annual Returns, the name of the Company shall, unless a cause is shown, be struck off the Register and the Company shall stand dissolvedâ€.
The Ghana Union of Traders Associations (GUTA) will later today, meet with officials of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) over Monday’s demolition exercise and take-over of stalls at the Opera Square in Accra.
The National Lottery Authority (NLA) in accordance with the National Lotto Act 722 and Lottery Regulations L.I. 1948, has suspended all collaboration agreements which do not seem to have received the appropriate Board Approval.
More kidnappings took place in the Gulf of Guinea in the first two months of 2021 alone than the entire first quarter of 2020, as piracy and other sea-related crimes continue to bedevil that stretch of the Atlantic Ocean.
