Global cocoa company Cargill has launched a licensed buying company (LBC) with innovations to provide technical assistance to farmers and pay them instantly through mobile money. The Cargill Kokoo Sourcing Ltd has already registered 25,000 farmers, of which 9,000 are actively selling beans through Cargill’s LBC network of 190 centres across four districts to provide proximate services to farmers.

Ghana and the Czech Republic have signed a Double Taxation Agreement to enable nationals of both countries to pay income taxes only once to one of the countries. The Minister of Finance, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, signed on behalf of Ghana, while the Czech Ambassador to Ghana, Ms Margita Fuschova, signed on behalf of her country. 

The police have arrested four illegal miners at Topremang, near Akwatia in the Denkyembour District in the Eastern Region. The suspects, who are all Chinese, are Jac Wang, 36; Zhu Jing Sheng, 47; Zhong Hongua, 36, and Li Yi, 32.

A woman who captured the hearts of many South Africans for her brave battle against premature aging disorder progeria has died aged 18. Doctors had said Ontlametse Phalatse would not make it past the age of 14.

A $370,000 border management training project for security agencies for seven Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) countries has been launched to enhance their capabilities against extremism and terrorism in West Africa and the Sahel Region.

Achievers Ghana, a local non-governmental organisation (NGO), is investing in girl-child education in slum areas to help them attain the highest level in formal education through an after-school programme.

Ghana National Association of Small-Scale Miners (GNASSM) has called on the government and other stakeholders, including the media, not to lump its members with illegal gold miners.  According to the association, its members had been licensed to engage in legitimate mining and been taught to preserve the environment after excavation works.

The government has set the right economic tone in its first 100 days in office to signal a positive investment climate for the country to attract the right Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) to boost the economy, the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), Mr Yofi Grant, has said. He also noted that the policies outlined in the 2017 budget and the government’s economic policy had also boosted the confidence of the

The world has witnessed yet another display of the military might of the United States with the missile strikes on Syrian targets a few days ago. The US justified its strikes because it believed the Assad regime was behind a chemical weapons attack on opposition strongholds in Syria last week.

LAGOS—Operatives of Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday found $38 million, £27,000 and N23 million in a private residence on Gerrard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos. The commision acted on a tip-off by yet another whistleblower. It was learned that the house, which belongs to an unnamed Abuja politician, is on Gerrard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos.

In 2007, Euroget De-Invest s.a (EDI) of Egypt, an Egyptian investment company, with special expertise in structuring and arranging project finance and investment initiatives, entered Ghana and prospected for social infrastructural projects, specifically hospitals. The project involved the construction of nine state-of-the-art fully functional hospitals including a 500-bed military hospital, two regional hospitals in Wa and Kumasi, and six district

The Christ Apostolic Church International (CACI), the first Pentecostal and charismatic church in Ghana, has begun a year-long celebration to mark its centenary anniversary. The church started the celebrations with a joint hoisting of the church’s flag and that of the country at its headquarters at Osu in Accra.

The First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, has tasked queenmothers in the Greater Accra Region to unite for the development of the region. She said this when queenmothers from Ngleshie and the Greater Accra Association of queenmothers and priestesses called on her to congratulate and pledge their support for her and the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

All is set for this year’s Kwahu?Paragliding Festival scheduled from tomorrow April 14 to Sunday April 16, 2017 at the Odweanoma Mountain, Atibie-Kwahu. The event, which is the 12th in the series, is planned as part of the Easter festivities in the Kwahu area.

Business for Breakfast (B4B), a United Kingdom (UK)-based organisation that seeks to create a network platform for local businesses in all sectors of the economy to find new trade opportunities in other parts of the globe, has been launched in Accra. The organisation, which has partners all over the world, also seeks to introduce local entrepreneurs to their counterparts in the United States of America (USA), UK and Africa.

The chiefs and people of eight districts and four traditional areas in the northern sector of the Volta Region have held the first consultative conference in pursuit of the creation of a new region as proposed by both the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) during the campaign in the last election. The districts are Jasikan, Kadjebi, Biakoye, Nkwanta North and South, Krachi Nchumuru, Krachi East and West in addition

The Crops Research Institute (CRI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has released four new yam varieties. They are Afaase Adepa, Afaase Hoodenfoo, Afaase Biri and Afaase Soanyinto.

Christian religious group leaders have urged Ghanaians to use the Easter festivities to set aside their differences and forge ahead in peace and unity. That, they said, required that Ghanaians rise above disappointments and past failures, as well as seek to be reconciled with those they might have offended.

The government is to pay the salaries of about 13,000 newly recruited teachers from the various colleges of education by the end of this month, the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES) Mr Jacob Kor, has announced in Accra. Mr Kor stated this at a press conference on staff promotions and related issues at the ministry in Accra last Tuesday and asked those who do not receive their salaries at the end of April to report to the district and/or regional directors of education

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo yesterday swore in the final batch of 50 deputy ministers of state, with a call on them to justify their selection which had attracted a barrage of criticisms.