The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Wenchi Municipality in the Bono Region, Dr. Patrick Kwakye Afriyie, has said the evacuation of three dump-sites in the municipality formed part of government’s priorities to ensure that dumpsites sited close to residential communities are evacuated to prevent any disaster.
Speaking to journalists during...
Thirty-six companies and 12 outstanding individuals have been honoured at the second edition of the Ghana Business Standard Awards, organised by KN Unique Communications.
The awards ceremony seeks to celebrate organisations committed to remarkable business standards in their sectors, and industry leaders breaking barriers of excellence across the Ghanaian business...
The bilateral trade volume of Ghana and China last year hit US$7.46billion, making China Ghana’s largest trading partner, the biggest source of foreign investment and the biggest provider of human resource training. Ghana now is the 7th-largest trading partner of China in Africa.
Until 2019, more than 6,500 Ghanaian students...
The high cost of Marine Gas Oil (MGO) - representing as much as 70 percent of industrial and semi-industrial vessels operational cost - is pushing local vessels to patronise the product offshore, Simon Aggah, Acting President of National Fisheries Association of Ghana (NAFAG), has revealed.
He explained that due to...
Airtel Networks Zambia Plc has partnered with Ericsson on a ‘Product Take-Back’ programme to minimize the potential environmental impact associated with the disposal of decommissioned electrical equipment.
The Product Take-Back programme is part of Ericsson’s Sustainability efforts geared towards taking accountability for environmental impacts of all products and services during...
An old Zen Buddhist saying cautions, “Do not mistake the finger pointing at the moon for the moon.” By focusing too much on the means, one can lose sight of the ends.
A case in point is UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s ambitious £100 billion ($130 billion) “Operation Moonshot” to...
InfoSec Advisory with Del Aden
Most organizations struggle to make actionable data available, let alone turn it into business value. Research suggests only 10% of business-relevant data is actually used for analytics.
This is because Business data can decay at a rate of over 40% per year, so your database...
It’s five years now, since the global community adopted the historic 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
Among other things, it established a goal to limit average global temperature rise to well below 2˚ degrees Celsius, possibly keep it at 1.5 degrees Celsius.
To reach this goal, countries had earlier documented...
With the global trading system under severe pressure, international cooperation to strengthen a rules-based order is vital. Now, perhaps more than ever, we need a World Trade Organization that supports economic recovery, defends multilateralism, rebuilds trust, and rises to the twenty-first-century challenges posed by poverty, inequality, climate change, and...