Prices of fuel on the domestic market will remain largely stable within April first pricing-window, the Institute of Energy Security (IES), has said. The stability, IES explains, is due to factors including 2.05 percent decrease in price of the International Benchmark- Brent crude, 2.84 percent decrease in price of gasoil, 1.89 percent decrease in gasoline […] The post Fuel
The first MTN Invitational Golf tourney came off successfully at the Achimota Golf Club on Saturday, March 27 with scores of golfers, male and female, in radiant attendance. With COVID-19 truncating the regular golfing season, this was an opportunity for golfers and lovers of the sport to once again come together, have fun and stretch […] The post First
Local sports teams in the Central Region, have received various forms of support through Betway’s community support programme, Betway Up, which was introduced with the aim of uplifting sports teams in Ghana. The teams which comprised of basketball and football teams were drawn from towns in the Central Region. These teams were taken through training […] The post BetwayUp:
The International Central Gospel Church ICGC has donated 105,000 pieces of N95 masks worth GH¢150,000 to psychiatric hospitals. The General overseer of ICGC Pastor Mensa Otabil who made the donation said the gesture was part of efforts to keep patients and workers at the hospitals safe from the COVID-19 pandemic. “Mental health is a big […] The post ICGC donates
Dr. Justice Ofori, Commissioner of Insurance has emphasized that the National Insurance Commission (NIC) has a role in protecting policyholders and the insurance industry for development to thrive. He said to ensure development, there is the need to increase the minimum capital for insurance companies across the country hence the increase of the minimum capital […] The post Insurance
Invest for Jobs, an initiative of the Global Shea Alliance (GSA), a non- profit industry association and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development has been launched in Tamale, the Northern regional capital. The project seeks to empower over 30,000 women Shea pickers and cooperatives in quality processing and business management through training, job creation and […] The post Invest
Barely a year ago, many discussions on the future of work focused on technology and the role that automation is predicted to have on jobs and the workplace. However, when many complex forces are at play, linear predictions are too simplistic, hence the intrusion of the COVID – 19 pandemic. First reported in Wuhan, China […] The post A Year On:
Ghana’s foremost digital and innovation bank, Stanbic Bank, has introduced yet another product, ‘Health Pay App’, which promises to revolutionize payments and collections in health facilities across the country. The ‘Health Pay App’, which was launched on Monday March 29, is a mobile App that supports the payment of hospital bills through multi-digital payment platforms […] The post Radical
Following the launch of the 2021 edition of the African Economic Outlook, Rabah Arezki, the African Development Bank’s Chief Economist and Vice President for Economic Governance and Knowledge Management, discusses strategies to rebuild stronger African economies. In 2021, Africa is forecast to rebound from its worst economic recession in half a century. Which indicators underpin […] The post Life after
Carl Brogya-Sarpong, Entrepreneur and Chief Executive Officer of Brogya Resources Limited, an upstream and downstream oil and gas services firm, has been enstooled as the Dompeahene of Agogo Traditional Area in the Asante Akim North District of the Ashanti Region. He will bear the stool name Dompeahene Nana Bediako Brogya Sarpong, an honorary chieftaincy title […] The post Founder
Ndan Yaa Naa Abukari II has appealed to government to consider the development and upgrading of the Yendi airstrip to the status of an airport. This, he said, would help accelerate business growth and promote tourism in the Dagbon area. “Yendi has little or no opportunity for water transport but there is a huge potential […] The post Upgrade
The Start column In June, it is estimated that 300,000 companies and businesses risk deletion from the company/business registers. A B&FT news report of March 19, 2021 quoted the Registrar-General, Mrs Jemima M. Oware as issuing a final public notice – “kindly note that if at the expiration of three months from the date of […] The post Deletion
… 30 years of drug manufacturing The nation’s pharmaceutical manufacturing industry seems to have attracted the most attention last year, since its existence, due to the advent of COVID-19. But the sector has served the nation for 30 years, providing essential drugs not only to take care of citizens but also to feed the sub-region. […] The post The journey from manufacturing
…warns cybercrime is on the rise The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Slamm Technologies, Samuel Boateng has cautioned institutions against the use of pirated and illegally modified software applications for business operations as a means of protection against cyber-attacks. According to him, the use of such applications, whilst considered as a cost-cutting measure would be […] The post Desist
Ghana… We boast of being the first sub-Saharan African nation to gain independence. This is a feat our forefathers lived for, fought for and died for – A feat we will celebrate forever. 64 years down the line, political independence has become banal with a larger cross-section of the populace having only known post-colonial Ghana […] The post We are not an independent nation
There is strength is unity, without doubt. It is said that a solitary tree can be broken by the wind. A forest, however, is able to withstand strong winds by sharing the load of the wind strength among all the trees. Collective investment schemes operate on this basis. Both the good things and the bad […] The post Collective Investment Schemes appeared first on The
Organisations in Africa are still not addressing inside threats when it comes to Digital security and physical assets, leaving themselves wide open to data breaches as a result. An insider threat is a malicious threat to an organization that comes from people within the organization, such as employees, former employees, contractors or business associates, who […] The post InfoSec
Plan International Ghana in partnership with the MTN Ghana Foundation have sponsored 50 young people on a fully-funded mobile phone assembling and repairs training in Suhum under the second phase of the Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Project (YEEP). Two months ago, the YEEP trained some 50 young people in the Nsawam Municipality also in the Eastern Region, bringing the total […] The post Plan
Golden Star Resources has entered into an agreement with Future Global Resources (FGR) Limited and its major shareholder, Blue International Holdings Limited to amend a share purchase agreement dated July 26, 2020. This is related to the sale of Golden Star’s 90% interest in the Bogoso-Prestea Gold Mine in Ghana to FGR, as supplemented by […] The post Golden
To free up some funds and provide some ease in debt repayment plan in the short term, it will be prudent for government to take advantage of the G20’s Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI), Deloitte Ghana has said in its post budget analysis. This comes on the back of the 2021 budget revealing that the […] The post Gov’t must consider debt suspension programme
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