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Apple Inc has agreed to start selling digital songs from its iTunes store without copy protection software. At present, most music downloaded from Apple's iTunes store can only be played through an iTunes interface or iPod. The new…

As the African gangs gain clout, conflict with the Neapolitan mafia known as the Camorra intensifies, made brutally clear by an attempted hit that left six Ghanaians dead. Soaring on cocaine, guns smoking, the Camorra hit squad sped down…

The President of the Ghanaian-German Economic Association (GGEA), Mr Stephen Antwi, has urged the country to take advantage of the West African market to grow local businesses. An ardent believer in regional markets and blocs, Mr Anwti, a…

As most commentators will be aware, after a disastrous 2008 for commodities, and even more so for many commodities stocks, prediction is a hazardous business. While many were only too well aware at the beginning of 2008 of the…

Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Kofi Boakye has been reinstated into the Ghana Police Service with full benefits after serving nearly three years of interdiction. A Joy News report monitored by ghanabusinessnews.com Tuesday…

The family of former Ghana National Petroleum Authority (GNPC) boss, Tsatsu Tsikata say they would pursue his case in court until his conviction is overturned. Mr Tsikata was sentenced in June 2008 for willfully causing financial loss to…

Business activities in the Ashanti Regional capital, Kumasi, have once again resuscitated a few days after going into recession, following the defeat of the incumbent New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the general elections. Residents in the…

The Government of Ghana has released GH¢2.6m loan contract from the Agricultural Development Bank to the Ghana Cotton Company Limited (GCCL) to enhance its purchasing power. The loan is to support the GCCL to purchase cotton from local…

Ghana’s out-going President J. A. Kufuor has pardoned imprisoned former Ghana National Petroleum boss, Tsatsu Tsikata. In a statement signed by Deputy Information Minister Frank Agyekum and released in Accra Tuesday January 6, 2009, a…

All is set for the investiture of Ghana's third President under the Fourth Republican Constitution on Wednesday, January 7 at the Independence Square in Accra. The Chief Justice, Mrs Justice Georgina Wood would swear in President-elect,…