Government will hold a two-day National Conference in Accra from Tuesday 20th to 21st October, 2020 on the implementation of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement.
The National Conference is organised by the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI), the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) and the National...
Broadening the tax base with a view to improving domestic revenue mobilisation has been advocated as an important policy option to boost.
According to a new research conducted by the Private Enterprise Federation and sponsored by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) project, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises...
Converting debt liabilities into investments that protect children is good economics and an ethical imperative
At the height of Africa’s debt crisis in the mid-1980s, Julius Nyerere, the late president of Tanzania, asked his country’s creditors a blunt question: “Should we really let our people starve so that we can...
Celebrating the critic
Critics are not among the most liked in society. Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Benjamin Disraeli once described critics as "those who have failed in literature and art." 18th century British poet and playwright, Samuel Johnson was even less charitable in describing the critic.
He said,...
PZ Cussons, as part of the Global Handwashing Day celebrations, has donated handwashing stations and Carex and Camel products worth GH¢50,000 to some orphanages across the country.
The products donated included hand sanitisers, antibacterial soap and hand wash. Global Handwashing Day is a global advocacy day dedicated to increasing awareness...
AngloGold Ashanti’s Obuasi Mine has said its effort to enhance agriculture development in the Obuasi municipality is being undermined by illegal mining activities, or galamsey, despite committing US$620,000 into local agricultural programmes.
Senior Sustainability Manager, of AngloGold Ashanti-Obuasi Mine, Emmanuel Baidoo, said the galamsey activities are happening close to the...
KEK Insurance Brokers Group made history again a fortnight ago when the company topped at the Enterprise Life Planners, Conference and Awards ceremony held in Accra.
It is an annual performance awards to recognize hardworking life planners in the broker channel of selling life products for Enterprise Life Insurance. KEK’s...
Urbanisation of Accra inter alia has led to criminal acts of land grabbing which has gained the notorious name ‘land guards’. Anybody who has suffered the activities of land guards knows that it is something that no government should tolerate not to the extent of which it has almost...
A 39-year old Ghanaian farmer has broken a record by becoming the first indigenous commercial farmer with over 425 hectares of farmland in a single location of the country’s northern savannah ecological zone.
Isaac Papanko, CEO of Idan Agro Ventures Papanko, started off by farming maize on 8 hectares and...