Trading on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) ended in the positive in the week ending April 7, as investors, confidence in some banking stocks, revived their appetite for the equity. As a result, the GSE Composite Index improved by 1.79 per cent to settle at 1,898.34 points. This represented a year-to-date gain of 12.39 per cent.

The head pastor and founder of Blessing of Christ Ministry at Gyasikrom near Enchi in the Western Region, Isaac Twumasi and seven other suspected armed robbers have been arrested by the police. The gang of robbers who had laid ambush mistook a police night patrol vehicle for that of some Chinese gold miners, who were supposed to be conveying money on the route.

It is pretty incredible how often you hear managers complaining about their best employees leaving, and they really do have something to complain about as costly and disruptive as good people walking out the door. Managers tend to blame their turnover problems on everything under the sun while ignoring the crux of the matter: people don’t leave jobs; they leave managers. The sad thing is that this can easily be avoided.

The government has reduced the retail price of fertiliser from GH¢85 to GH¢54 to boost crop production in the country, the Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has said. He said the move was also to ensure that farmers were liquid enough to expand their operations within the agriculture value chain.

The President of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS), Ghana, Mrs Stella Addo, has urged public institutions to use electronic platforms for their procurements to increase their efficiency. E-procurement, she said, was fast driving growth in the private sector; hence, the need for the public institutions to move from the manual system.

The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) is to revive its pension scheme for informal sector workers after four years of inaction. The scheme was introduced in 2010 as a pension buffer for informal sector workers but fizzled out after going through some challenges. Currently, it is being managed by the NTHC, another state-owned enterprise.

The Western Region police have arrested 50 residents of Ekpu in the Half-Asini District during a dawn swoop Tuesday, led by the Regional Police Commander, DCOP Kwasi Mensah-Duku. Three hundred policemen drawn from various stations in the region took part in the swoop and those arrested are to be screened at the regional police headquarters in Sekondi-Takoradi..

The thirteen members of the Delta Force vigilante group aligned to the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) who escaped from the Circuit Court in Kumasi last Thursday have been fined a total of Gh¢31,200. The 13 who pleaded guilty to the offence of escaping from lawful custody was fined Gh¢2,400 each by the Kumasi Circuit Court (4) when they were arraigned on Tuesday morning, reports Graphic Online’s Donald Ato Dapatem from Kumasi. 

Vodafone Ghana has introduced a new product christened ‘Vodafone all- in-one’. The product includes fixed broadband, voice minutes for landline, mobile voice and mobile data put into one seamless package.

The Parliament’s Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and Cocoa Affairs has indicated that the Ministry of Food and Agriculture may not be able to carry out its “Planting for Food and Jobs” programme if the Ministry of Finance goes on with its planned directive to have the Ministry’s arrears of GH? 182.81 million debt paid from its 2017 budget allocation.

A wood processing factory at Akyem Manso near Oda in the Eastern Region,  A.K. Ghana Wood, is accusing the management of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) at Oda of contributing to the destruction of five large motors belonging to it. According to the management of the wood company, it had spent  GH¢30,000 to repair the damaged motors.

The police administration has charged five inmates who were on detention at the Half Assini District Police station for beating a fellow inmate to death. The deceased was said to have disturbed the sleep of the inmates and stepped on one of them whilst they were asleep and hence they allegedly assaulted him.

Ghana has been ranked the fourth best place to invest in Africa by RMB Global Markets Research. Ghana beat countries such as Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Cote d’ Ivoire and Algeria as it is placed among the top 10 countries on the continent. It also ranked fourth as the country to have attracted the highest amount of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in 2015 even when the economy was heavily saddled with major economic challenges.  Ranked among the top five recipients according

The Stockholm truck attack suspect has confessed to a "terrorist crime", his lawyer says. The admission came at a custody hearing in the Swedish capital.

The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has presented relief items to the Overlord of Mamprugu, the Nayiri, Naa Bohogu Mahami Abdulai Sheriga, and the St Charles Minor Seminary/Senior High School (SHS) in separate ceremonies at Nalerigu and Tamale. Fire recently gutted parts of the Nayiri Palace in Nalerigu and the boys dormitory block of St Charles SHS.

There was a fire outbreak at the Avenor branch warehouse of Ashfoam in Accra on Monday. According to a supervisor, they received a distress call that fire had engulfed the building so they alerted the fire service.

Hewale Sounds, a neo-traditional/contemporary band led by master flutist, Dela Botri, is 21- years-old and the anniversary will be marked with concerts  and workshops in Accra and Akosombo.

The Omanhene of New Juaben and United Nations Commissioner on the International Civil Service Commission, Daasebre Prof. (Emeritus) Oti Boateng, has observed that the 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), though laudable, lacks the basic community development substratum to attain implementation efficiency and sustainability. He acknowledged that the agenda for sustainable development was well-crafted with respect to its 17 goals and 169 targets but its major fault-line

Rice farmers in the Volta, Upper East and Northern regions are groaning under a glut in the rice market. While some of the farmers were unable to find market for their produce, others were selling at give-away prices.

Fidelity Bank Limited has received a loan of $ 54 million from two companies to enable it to provide long-term capital to small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The companies are The Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO) a Dutch development bank which supports sustainable private sector growth by investing in ambitious entrepreneurs and the Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries (BIO).