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18 Nov

Businesses urged to explore value addition to benefit from AfCFTA

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Private sector players engaged in the export sector in the Northern Region have been urged to add value to their products to make them competitive and to fully benefit from the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement. Dr John-Hawkins Asiedu, Technical Advisor Industrial Parks and Special Economic Zones at the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MoTI), who made the call, said the move would help in boosting jobs and revenues. It would also ensure the realisation of the goals of the country’s National Export Development Strategy (NEDS). He made the call during a presentation on the national action plan…

1D1F: President Akufo-Addo Commissions Kasapreko Water, Juice And Soft Drinks Factory

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The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Monday, 28th September 2020, commissioned the Kasapreko Water, Juice and Soft Drinks Factory, a company operating under Government’s 1-District-1-Factory initiative. At a ceremony at the premises of the company at Kwadaso, in the Ashanti Region, President Akufo-Addo noted that the establishment of the factory is a concrete manifestation that the new paradigm of economic development, which his administration is vigorously pursuing, of insisting on value-addition industrial activities within a conducive and business-friendly environment, can make headway. “This afternoon’s ceremony is in fulfillment of the promise by Government, in partnership with the…

President Akufo-Addo Commissions & Hands-Over Afcfta Secretariat To AU Commission

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The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has commissioned and handed over the Secretariat of the African Continental Free Trade Area to the African Union (AU) Commission, at a brief ceremony, at the Africa Trade House, on Monday, 17th August 2020. Delivering a speech at the ceremony, President Akufo-Addo stated that Ghana had discharged all of her obligations towards the establishment and the setting up of the office, following the selection of Ghana, in 2019, by the AU Assembly to host the AfCFTA Secretariat. “We are, today, handing over a fully furnished and befitting office space, in a…