The beginning of every expedition is characterized with excitements and euphoria, great optimism and a purposeful energy for accomplishment. Sometimes with a little shadow of doubts, feeling of uncertainties and the inability to envisage clearly how the future holds, often become the bane to dream and more importantly push the urgency to start perpetually postponed. […] The post Discovery

Freight Forwarders at Port Tema have expressed displeasure over withholding of container deposits by shipping lines. A container deposit is a specific amount of money that the importer is made to pay as a guarantee for return of the container after goods in it have been discharged. Felix Kwesi Anning, a Freight Forwarder with His […] The post Freighters

Many Venezuelan protestors stormed the streets in different cities throughout the country on Sunday, January 31, 2021, to demand the release of special envoy and businesses man, Alex Saab. The over 200,000 protesters took the action following comments by the Prime Minister of Cape Verde, Ulisses Correia, that his country did no wrong in arresting […] The post Venezuelan

The National Insurance Commission (NIC) has announced the new GIC Advanced Diploma as the eligible qualification for Associateship of the Chartered Insurance Institute of Ghana (ACIIG) designation. Michael Kofi Andoh, Deputy Commissioner-NIC, made this pronouncement in Accra two weeks ago. He pointed out that the Commission in consultation with Ghana Insurance Association (GIA), Insurance Brokers […] The post GIC

Maxwell: Good evening Otema. I’m looking forward to a pleasant conversation with you. You’ve had all these leadership roles in big corporations, like IBM, Vodafone, being the first-ever female country manager in Microsoft’s Africa operations, what advice would you share with young woman entering such a male dominated profession? Otema: Thank you for having me Maxwell. […] The post Otema

Financial Wellness with Richmond Kwame Frimpong Put simply, a mutual fund is a pool of funds(money) collected from many investors for the purpose of investing in securities such as stocks, bonds, money market instruments and similar assets. It usually employs a professional fund manager to manage the investment. The manager’s goal depends on the type […] The post Understanding

Star Assurance Group Limited (SAGL), a wholly Ghanaian-owned private company, has positioned itself to transform Ghana’s competitive insurance sector. This follows the recent consolidation of its holdings in three leading insurance companies into a mega-group. The three companies are Star Assurance Company Limited, StarLife Assurance Company Limited, and Star Microinsurance Company Limited. The SAGL formed in […] The post Star

Priority Insurance Company – a member of Tobinco Group of Companies, a fast-growing general insurance underwriting firm – has donated 2,000 bottles of sanitisers to the cluster of schools at Tesano and Airport police stations respectively. The items were presented by Felix Akyea-Bekoe, General Manager Technical Operations, on behalf of Matthew Kweku Atta Aidoo, Managing […] The post Priority

African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), has been ranked as Africa’s #1 mandated lead arranger in sub-Saharan Africa, according to Bloomberg’s 2020 full-year “Capital Markets League Tables”. This assessment of the Bank’s transactions recognizes the institution’s leadership role in mobilizing capital from both within and outside of the continent from a diverse range of investors and stakeholders for […] The post Afreximbank

The headquarters of Ghana Prisons Service at Osu in the La Dadetokopon Municipality of the Greater Accra Region has benefitted from Zoomlion’s Free Community Disinfection that was launched recently. The was carried out on Thursday, January 28, 2021 and was to help deal with any COVID-19 tendencies at the state facility. The Coordinator for the […] The post Prisons

Remote work also referred to as telecommuting (work from anywhere or teleworking) has been with us since the 1970s. Over the past, two to three decades’ efforts have been made to institutionalize and further formalize the future of work. In 1995 a phrase was coined to put in perspective what it means to telecommute, “work […] The post Telecommuting under lockdown appeared first on

At first, farms grew a large variety of foods depending on their location. As the human population approaches 10 billion people by 2050 according to a United Nations report launched on 17th June, 2019, agriculture is poised to continue to grow to meet the demand for food. As food production increases, so does the reliance […] The post Why pay attention to agriculture commodity

Most times, technology firms like Apple, Samsung, Huawei, etc, would advertise new versions of hi-tech phones and tablets on the market, promising exciting customer experience to users. Similarly, GSMA would also introduce new versions of mobile internet platforms like, H+, 3G and 4G/LTE, assuring smart phone user of speedy mobile internet connectivity. 5G is the […] The post The

Second Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Elsie Addo Awadzi, has once again touted the scope and timing of the financial sector clean-up – stating that it has left the nation with more resilient financial institutions, without which the post-pandemic recovery would have proved nigh impossible. While the reforms are a work in […] The post More

Last week, a heated debate on the issue of waiving tertiary education fees for the 2020/2021 academic fees gained national attention. The Minority National Democratic Congress (NDC) tabled a motion in Parliament for debate on government absorbing the fees of students in public tertiary universities. Though Parliament rejected the motion, the debate might continue for […] The post To

Access to finance continues to be a major hinderance to the growth of small businesses. This challenge has been attributed to small businesses inability to provide collateral to secure funding, inability to demonstrate adequate traction, inadequate knowledge and experience as well as lack of adequate information on the operations of small businesses. The major challenge […] The post How

While an earlier article talked about value chain financing (VCF), the key question of relevance is what can be done in a practical sense to re-engineer financing of agriculture through VCF, especially in the Covid-19 era? For this, financial inclusion of agriculture through VCF should not be merely viewed as enhancing access to finance for […] The post Agriculture

Autochek Ghana, a technology platform that allows the buying and selling of cars, has launched an application to improve how automobiles are bought and sold in Ghana and Africa. The company, which acquired Cheki Ghana last year, aims to build on the solid work that the Cheki team has done over the last 10 years. […] The post Autochek enters car market with app to curb fraud

The Advertising Association of Ghana (AAG) has called for fresh ideas and a new communication strategy to effectively get the message across to the public, in order to curb the new wave of COVID-19 infections currently sweeping across the country. The association has described as “unfortunate” the “generic communication style” adopted by the two foremost government institutions […] The post Advertisers

The Media as a Social Force for Change The media plays a critical role in shaping and directing society toward a national conscience of developmental goals, based on how it selects and cuts through a nation’s developmental agenda by making some issues more salient than others.  Through the media’s selection of content and how it […] The post Ghanaian