The World Bank has commended Ghana for promoting financial inclusion through innovation. According to the organization, the introduction of mechanisms such as mobile money and other digital platforms will help the country to elevate its economic status. Speaking on the issue, the Country Director of the World Bank in Ghana, Henry Kerali said the World ...

As an entrepreneur who appreciates the challenges to surmount in order to build flourishing businesses with positive ramifications for society, the collapse of UT and Capital Banks can only be seen as a reflection of our respective individual negative traits, deficient national character and  the weak state institutions coupled with our ineffective educational system. The ...

Exton Cubic Group Limited, a mining company operating in the country has described as false and total misrepresentation, reports claiming that the Chief Executive Officer of Engineers and Planners, Ibrahim Mahama was chased out of a bauxite concession at Nyinahini in the Ashanti Region over the weekend. A statement signed by the managing director of ...

Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Otiko Afisah Djaba is on a three-day advocacy tour of the Northern Region against child marriage which is hampering girl child education. She is to address the Northern Regional House of Chiefs, today (Tuesday) to garner enough support from the traditional authorities to minimize the situation. She is ...

The Conference of Directors of Education (CODE) has advocated the reduction of the number of subjects studied at the various levels of basic education. It suggested that while pupils in the kindergarten and lower primary should study only numeracy, literature and physical education, those in upper primary and students in junior high school (JHS) should ...

Google boss Sundar Pichai joined members of his executive team on his first visit to Nigeria as the company announced a series of products for the country, including YouTube Go, a platform where users with slow Internet can preview and save videos. YouTube users in the country can now download any video in a range of different resolutions ...

President Donald Trump has said a hasty US withdrawal from Afghanistan would leave a vacuum for terrorists to fill. He said his original instinct was to pull US forces out, but had instead decided to stay and “fight to win” – avoiding the mistakes made in Iraq. He said he wanted to shift from a ...

Google has released the latest version of its Android mobile operating system (OS), which is named after Oreo chocolate biscuits. It adds a new “picture-in-picture” mode that lets some apps run in a small corner of the screen. Google’s own Nexus and Pixel phones are expected to be the first to receive the software update. ...

Brighton and Hove Albion have agreed terms with FC Zurich to sign striker Raphael Dwamena for an undisclosed fee. Ghana forward Dwamena, 21, has agreed personal terms, with the move subject to a medical, a work permit and international clearance. Brighton had an £8m bid for Dwamena rejected with reports saying FC Zurich wanted 15m euros (£13.7m). ...

Angolans are preparing to go to the polls to choose a new president. But although the country’s long-serving leader is standing down, he and his family do not seem ready to give up power. President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, 74, has been president of Angola since September 1979 – a total of 38 years. While ...

There is no need to limit the number of children couples should have,  Associate Professor with the Regional Institute of Population Studies (RIPS) of the University of Ghana, Prof. Stephen Owusu Kwakye has said. The National Population Council NPC had earlier described the 2.5% annual population growth of Ghana as alarming. And renewed calls for ...

The Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Emmanuel Kofi Nti, has appealed to the government to ensure that its agenda to create a paperless transaction system at the country’s ports is fully implemented. He has also called on all stakeholders and citizens to ensure that the migration to a paperless transaction system at the ports ...

A former Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa believes the new quota system to be used in employing medical doctors and dentists in the country will serve its purpose as long as it is devoid of tampering. Speaking on Eyewitness News, he lauded the Health Service’s move and urged that it be “implemented to ...