Kuapa Kokoo, a cocoa farmers' co-operative organization, is to set up a coffee processing plant and coffee plaza at Ampabame and Daatano respectively in the Ejisu Juaben district of the Ashanti Region under its sustainable development programme, Managing Director for the organization, Samuel Adimado, has revealed.
Mr. Adimado indicated that...
Ground handling company, Aviance, has won the ‘Service Company of The Year’ at the Ghana Business Expatriate Awards held in Accra.
The Awards, instituted by the Ministry of Trade and Industry in collaboration with Millennium Excellence Foundation, is designed to honour expatriates businesses for their immense contribution to the development...
The first Regional Round-table on Infrastructure Governance was held in Cape Town at the beginning of November. Peter Eigen, founder of Transparency International), who addressed the event, reflects on the vital importance of openness and transparency for successful and sustainable infrastructure projects.
Corruption is nothing new and it’s certainly not unique...
AirtelTigo Insurance policy holders have reached 1.6 million, with 25,000 claims worth GH¢11million paid out to customers since 2010.
The microinsurance product, which is being rolled-out in collaboration with BIMA and Prudential Life Insurance, shows that mobile-enabled insurance holds the key to insuring a greater percentage of the country’s population...
Government, acting through the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has signed a service contract with LCB Worldwide - a crisis management and prevention firm - to disinfect all imports at the country’s entry points, effective January 2018.
Tunnel-like scanners will be installed at the ports, where trucks carting imported cargo will...
Sewerage Systems Ghana Limited (SSGL), a subsidiary company of the Jospong Group, has paid the tuition fees of 10 university students from James Town in Accra.
The gesture was part of the company's community outreach programme under its Corporate Social Responsibility.
James Town is a fishing community where the company has...
Despite the tightening of the public purse, which will see government expenditure controlled in 2018, the policies initiated by government do not support the idea that cash will be scarce in the economy, President of Groupe Ideal, Nii Kotei Dzani, has said.
“It is true that the biggest chunk of...
Shareholders of Access Bank Ghana, one of the leading retail banks in Ghana, have approved a capital raising exercise worth GHs 450 million at an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) held on Tuesday December 12, 2017 at the Coconut Grove Regency Hotel in Accra.
The additional capital to be raised by...
An Agricultural Engineer at the Department of Agriculture and Biosystems at the KNUST, Professor Emmanuel Bobobee, has called for improved mechanisation of cassava production in order to spur economic growth in the country.
“The adoption of mechanised agricultural practices across Africa,” he said, “will spur growth of the agricultural sector...
Increasing sources of income for Africans are being realised through remittances, which have been observed as an important factor that impacts lives as well as brings about economic growth and development on the continent.
The theme of remittances was discussed by researchers and economists at the 12th African Economic Conference...