A recent directive by the central bank to the banking community to release lower-denomination coins onto the market seems not to have been complied with yet.

As the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is preparing to execute its plan at resurrecting the defunct national airline - Ghana Airways - Business Day Ghana would like to draw attention to the rotten state of the defunct airline's imposing office property which sits on an expensive acreage of land in the prime Airport Residential Area of Accra.

MultiChoice is spreading some love to its DStv Compact and Compact Plus customers by having an Open Window showcasing three top Premium channels.

The Executive Director for Wacam, Mrs. Hannah Owusu-Koranteng, has emphasized the need for Ghana to rethink the approach to mining investments in the country.

Tax experts in Africa have converged in Accra at a symposium organized by International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) to find measures to fight tax avoidance and to proffer strategies through which various African governments can increase their tax revenue.

The Akufo-Addo government on March 2 presented its 2017 Budget and Economic Policy statement dubbed the Asempa Budget to the nation through Parliament. The Budget read by Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta a celebrated former investment banker, generated immense interest, praise and criticism across political, business and civil society platforms.

Public Private Partnership (PPP) has been identified as one of the main ingredients for boosting the quality of health delivery in the West African sub-region.

Africa112 is one of the ground breaking projects which is run by African Union Chapter in partnership with Core Foundation that aims to raise $112 million USD. The youth are Africa's largest resources making up to over 65% of the continents population. It is know that in Africa, the youth constitutes about 37% of the

Dr. Steve Manteaw, Campaign Coordinator for the Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC), has emphasized the need for Ghana to enforce legislation on labour, especially with respect to health and safety at the workplace and make it work.

Reduce price but fail to remove VAT By Cecil MENSAH It appears domestic airlines have conflicting mathematical formulas for calculating reductions that domestic air travellers are supposed to see on their fares in the wake of the government's abolition of the 17.5 Value Added Tax (VAT) on domestic air fares. Business Day Ghana's monitoring

The management of HFC Bank Ghana Limited, a subsidiary of Republic Bank group of Trinidad and Tobago, has failed to pay dividend to shareholders for the year ending 2016.

Business Day Ghana can report that the National Labour Commission (NLC) has, since its establishment, received more complaints relating to unfair dismissal or unfair termination of appointment than any other singular labour issue.

More than 27,000 farmers in the Brong-Ahafo Region have registered to benefit from the 'Planting for Food and Jobs' campaign, Mr Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh, the Brong-Ahafo Regional Minister, said last week.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has unveiled its new electrification programme, under which it will invest $12bn into the power sector in Ghana and other African countries over the next five years.

This is probably the deadliest prediction of gloom for Ghana's economy. Read it: "... one day we will wake up, perhaps, we don't have money to build roads; we don't have money to do any development infrastructure... "

The Ghana Insurers Association (GIA) is determined to improve insurance penetration in Ghana and has pencilled a number of interventions in this regard.

Turnkey Africa Ltd has indicated its pride in being associated with the 4th Life insurance Conference organized a couple of weeks ago by the Ghana Insurers Association (GIA).

Managers of the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme, a poverty alleviation support initiative under the Ministry of Gender and Social Protection, have introduced an electronic payment system for the disbursement of funds.

We live in a country where farming and fishing are perceived to be the main occupations of many local people. This is the place where many rural areas do not have access to electricity and most urban cities cannot afford constant power. Where smartphones and advanced electrical gadgets were seen to be cut for only the educated and rich. Where e-commerce is spreading like wildfire and promises to be a sure way of developing the African continent.

THERE are currently 960 million mobile subscriptions across Africa - an 80 percent penetration rate among the continent's population. Internet penetration is at 18 percent with 216 million internet users, according to the latest Jumia mobile trend report for Africa.