Today's Ghana Business, Banking and Economic news

As Africa rapidly joins the global community in moving its data & information storage, from the traditional ‘paper and shelf system’ to what is considered as ‘cyberspace’, there is a rising concern over the safety of this new environment, especially for the more vulnerable members of communities; children and young adults.

Ernest Chemists Limited, Ghana's leading pharmaceutical player, has once again been honoured as the OTC Distributor of the Year (Sub Saharan Africa) for the Consumer Wing of the world's largest pharmaceutical company by market value and sales, Johnson and Johnson (J &J).

In a recent move, BEIGE Group (BG), a leading financial services provider in Ghana has disclosed its successful acquisition of Unique Life Assurance Company Limited (U-Life), a licensed life assurance institution in the country.

Despite the progress made by government and the private sector in providing opportunities for girl child education and general women professional development, gender equality remains one of the major concerns for debates across various nations, especially in the third world countries.

Minister-designate for Aviation, Cecilia Abena Dapaah has promised to get a new national carrier working within two years if her nomination is approved.

The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Ms Gloria Afua Akuffo, has opened arguments at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in Hamburg, Germany, in the maritime boundary dispute between Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire urging the ITLOS to uphold the existing boundary.

Recent developments have indicated that preparations are in high-gear for government to present Ghana’s 2017 Budget and Economic Policy to parliament by 3rd March.

Ghana's oil and gas is one of the nation's newest and growing industries (at least in comparison to those of its counterparts in the West African sub-region) but it continues to draw much interest from both the Ghanaian and foreign public.

The country’s Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta has dismissed speculations that the President Nana Akufo-Addo led administration might extend Ghana’s bailout programme with the International Monetary Fund.

Following an earlier disclosure by Ghana’s new government that 7 billion cedi ($1.6 billion) in expenses were unaccounted for by the previous administration, the nation’s finance chief has said that the debt bailout program with the International Monetary Fund may need a bit of “tweaking”.

Communication giants, Vodafone Ghana has on Monday, launched the Vodafone Fibre Broadband as part the company’s SuperNet initiative.

Anxieties continue to rise over the proposed exist of the United Kingdom from European Union. The latest is a report from a survey of bosses of UK’s biggest companies.

MTN Ghana in collaboration with Fidelity Bank has introduced another mobile money innovation that allows customers to send money directly from their MTN mobile wallets into a Fidelity account for savings.

First Lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo has launched a Floating Production and Storage Offloading (FPSO) vessel named after former President John Agyekum Kufuor, at the Keppel Shipyard in Singapore.

Following a recent claim by Vice President of the republic of Ghana, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia of an alleged GH¢7billion unaccounted fund by the previous administration, Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta insists on knowing the true fiscal state of the economy before 2017 budget presentation.