Business

Tamale, Ghana – Chiefs and elders of Mamprusi Communities in the Daboya-Mankarigu Constituency of the North Gonja District are calling for an inclusion in the yet to be created North East Region of Ghana. According to the chiefs, their decision to be part of the North East Region was borne out …

Tamale, Ghana – Mechanics working at the Tamale Industrial Park have raised fears their shops may collapse due to lack of equipment and government support. Secretary to the Mechanics Workers Union, Musah Hamza, said many mechanic shops at the park are filled with old inefficient machines, adding that the lack …

At least over 3000 people have been rendered homeless at Salaga in the East Gonja Municipality of the Northern Region after a severe rainstorm occurred on Wednesday April 4th. The storm which started around 5pm lasted for close to two hours. According to the Municipal NADMO coordinator Ibrahim Alhassan, this …

Sagnarigu, Ghana – Vociferous National Democratic Congress Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga Central, Isaac Adongo, has appealed to Ghanaians holding accounts with ‘distressed uniBank Ghana’ to keep faith with the financial institution with a strong assurance that the bank will go back to Dr. Kwabena Duffour and it’s rightful owners. …

Wa, Ghana – Smallholder farmers in the Upper West Region are expected to increase sorghum yield from 1.75 metric tons to 4 metric tons per hectare, which is expected to produce a total of 8,000 metric tons per production season. This expected increase will decrease the high demand for the …

Tamale, Ghana – There are fast evolving changes taking place in all the areas of Ghana’s agricultural sector. The sector employs nearly 60 percent of the country’s total workforce. From the cultivation of thousands of acreages of cereal crops, tubers, vegetables, fruit-bearing trees to the rearing of herds of livestock …

Salaga, Ghana – Board of Directors of the Salaga Farmers Cooperative Credit Union have said that the Credit Union has grown beyond going bankrupt. According to the Board, the Credit Union currently has a total asset value of 2, 623,534.92 Ghana cedis which is above the requirements of the Bank of …

Tamale, Ghana – A Ghanaian-American agribusiness company, POP Diesel Africa Limited– has announced its intention to engage smallholder farmers in this year’s farming season to plant jatropha, an energy plant. With hundreds of lands being made available to POP Diesel Africa by local farmers in the Yendi Municipality estimated between …

Jirapa, Ghana – The Paramount Chief of the Tumu traditional area, Richard Babini Kanton IV has declared that the private sector had become more effective and was thus complementing efforts of the Government. He said the effectiveness of the private sector is gradually being felt in the region, saying that …

Tamale, Ghana – Chief Executive Officer of Centre for Media Analysis (CMA), Dr. Messan Mawugbe, says recent distasteful criticism of the Ghanaian media by the General Overseer of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC) Pastor Mensah Otabil, is unfair. In a direct response to the controversial Christian preacher’s denigration of the …