The Ministry of Finance and the European Investment Bank have signed an agreement for the provision of a one hundred- and seventy-million-euro (€170 million) facility for the establishment of a new national bank, the Development Bank Ghana (DBG). DBG is an integral feature of the GH¢100 billion Ghana Cares ‘Obaatampa’ Project, which is seeing to […] The post President
As schools across Ghana reopened for in-person learning early this year, the safety of pupils in the classroom became a major concern for parents and teachers. Personal hygiene, an essential health protocol for breaking the transmission of COVID-19, was a challenge for some schools in underserved communities as they lacked handwashing facilities and access to […] The post Newmont,
The Medi-Moses Prostate Centre has made radio personality Mr Gilbert Abeiku Aggrey (Abeiku Santana) its Brand Ambassador. Under the one-year initiative, Mr Santana will be the face of the centre that deals with the treatment of enlarged prostate. Tourism Apart from being a radio personality, Mr Aggrey is also a marketing and tourism practitioner. He […] The post Medi-Moses
[This is obviously a precursor to ‘Death to God and State’ in chronology of events, yet a sequel in explanation] God and Man Some 2000 years ago, although if we be precise, 2021 years ago, a gentleman walked the earth. That gentleman was said to be God. His death was said to grant humankind salvation; […] The post The science of mining God appeared first on The
The Ghana Poultry Project (GPP), funded by the United State Department of Agriculture (USDA), in partnership with the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) intends to increase targeted sector commercial performance by building coordination between firms while promoting competitiveness for domestically produced poultry eggs. Speaking at a forum on the theme ‘Stakeholders’ Sensitization Forum: Standards for Edible […] The post USDA-GPP,
The Women Intelligentsia for Service and Excellence (WISE) Network has donated an assortment of items to the Beulah CHPS Compound at Dzen Ayor, a suburb of the Ogbojo Electoral Area-Madina, Accra. The donated items comprised Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) such as disposable hand towels, sanitiser, thermometer guns; gallons of handwashing liquid, and other sanitary items […] The post WISE
Hollard Ghana, with subsidiaries Hollard Insurance and Hollard Life Assurance, has announced season-two of its popular webinar series H. Insured: All About Insurance is to start on Thursday, May 20 via zoom at 4 pm. The webinar forms part of the insurance group’s ongoing initiative to drive insurance penetration and financial inclusion in Ghana. The […] The post All about insurance
Where does your food come from? “Our food comes from the market, “its comes from the villages to the market and my mother brings it home…” this was the response I received from Miss Evelyn, a student in one of the country’s junior high School gardens are not new. Growing up in the 90s (in […] The post Let’s go farming: Where does your food come from? appeared
Who does not want to be a successful person? Indeed, success is on the wish-list of everyone – all of us all. No one sets out, usually, to fail. Failure could be hard to avoid but can be avoided still. How? Careful implementation of well-thought-out plans helps to give us a good chance to avoid […] The post Plan to succeed as Selorm appeared first on The
The African Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET) is inviting companies to apply to ACET Business Transform – a new business transformation accelerator programme targetting early to growth stage SMEs. ACET Business Transform is led by the Private Sector Development unit of ACET (PSD) and targets companies that have a manufacturing or assembly component in their […] The post ACET
The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has disclosed that measures are underway to ensure that newborn babies receive a unique national identification number, popularly known as Ghana Card within a month after birth starting from 2022. According to him, the Births and Deaths Registry has been engaged to help in structuring a system that will ensure […] The post Newborns
COVID-19 took the world by storm, quickly evolving into a worldwide pandemic that would change the face of the global economy and the way businesses run. For those who were already doing business online, the pandemic mainly presented growth opportunities. However, for those unfortunate souls who had started up brick-and-mortar businesses, many just couldn’t survive […] The post Conquer
Cocoa farmers across Ivory Coast – the world’s biggest producer of the key ingredient for chocolate – are down in the dumps after prices for their commodity fell for the second year running. Not so in M’Brimbo – a village in central Ivory Coast that 11 years ago became a testing ground for organic cocoa […] The post Boom times for organic cocoa
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, is calling for the restructuring of the global financial architecture so it can respond better to the needs of Africa, as well as the cancellation of debts owed by African countries, in the wake of COVID-19. Taking his turn to address the Summit on Financing African […] The post Cancel
The local currency continues to maintain its good form over major trading currencies, as data shows it has – for the first time in memorable history – recorded no loss in value for five continuous months against the US dollar: a feat that can be attributed to prudent currency management by the Bank of Ghana. […] The post Cedi records no loss of value in 5 consecutive
Begins June, ends December Citizens, foreign residents can only register with Ghana Card Communications and Digitalisation Minister, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has announced that the nation’s quest to re-register all SIM cards will last for seven months. The exercise is set to begin next month and scheduled to end in December. During the period, all SIM cards owners […] The post SIM
The Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies, Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyepong, has been named ‘CEO of the Decade’ in the Environment and Sanitation sector at the 5th Ghana CEO summit organised in Accra. The award was in recognition of the sterling leadership exhibited by Dr. Agyepong in the Environment and Sanitation sector, which […] The post Jospong’s Florence Larbi
The European Union has provided a grant of €35million to government for the rehabilitation and maintenance of 670km of feeder and farm access roads in the Upper West Region. This support aims at improving inter-connectivity between areas of production and market centres. To mark the start work, a ground-breaking ceremony has been held at Kpongu […] The post Groundbreaking
Plans are far-advanced by the government to dredge the Owabi and Barekese Rivers in in the Atwima Nwabiagya South District in the Ashanti Region, the Sanitation Minister, Madam Cecilia Abena Dapaah, has disclosed. “What was left was the feasibility studies, and fortunately for us the studies are ready. The report is coming out in a […] The post Gov’t to commence dredging
Starting a new business can be tricky. For physicians, the issues could be even more intense. According to the National Business Capital and Services, approximately 6.5 million businesses launch yearly, but only a few of them manage to succeed. While this is a scary statistic, it comes down to how the business owners approach success. […] The post Dr. Jonathan Kaplan
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