Business News of Saturday, 10 September 2016Source: peacefmonline.comGhana International Trade Fair Centre left to rotGhana International Trade Fair CentreDr Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first President, established the Centre 40 years as part of an industrialisation programme to expand international trade especially inter-African trade. The Ghana Trade Fair Company Limited was incorporated as a Limited Liability Company under the Statutory Corporations (Conversion to Companies) Act 1993, Act 461 in April 1997. The Authority had the mandate to commercially manage the Ghana International Trade Fair Centre as a commercial enterprise. Before then the Trade Fair Centre was managed by the Trade Fair Secretariat which was a unit within the Ministry of Trade and Industry. Lieutenant General J A Ankrah, who became the Head of State after the 1966 Coup, therefore officially opened the 1st International Trade Fair on February 1, 1967.

Source: GhanaWeb September 10, 2016 18:56 UTC