Tuesday, June 9, 2026
Welcome to another week of financial learning. Today's discussion will be a recap of my End of Year financial planning published last year. We are now in the twelfth month of the year 2020! Hurray!! The year 2020 has been a very challenging time for everyone due to the health pandemic the...
In obvious recognition of its brand acceptance and role in facilitating economic development across Africa, six subsidiaries of pan African financial institution United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc have been named ‘Bank of the Year 2020’, The awards were presented to the bank by the Banker Magazine, the leading global...
The newly-designated Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Ghana, Angela Lusigi, has presented her letter of credence to the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Charles Owiredu, on the start of her duty tour in Ghana. Ms. Lusigi's appointment took effect from 23...
Deaths from malaria due to disruptions during the coronavirus pandemic to services designed to tackle the mosquito-borne disease will far exceed those killed by COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa, the World Health Organization warned on Monday. More than 409,000 people globally - most of them babies in the poorest parts of...
The National Health Insurance Authority has introduced new features on the NHIS membership cards aimed at improving service delivery and to ease members’ obligation of replacing cards after every five-year mandatory replacement period. Although the Authority has maintained the basic outlook of the membership card, the new features have an...
The GCB Bank Limited has refurbished and expanded the Judicial Service Clinic, in Kumasi, to cater for the health needs of judicial service staff and the general public. The eight-bed ward facility, comes with a well-equipped laboratory, a well-stocked pharmacy with drugs to last for at least months, a consulting...
Last week BloombergNEF (BNEF) published a new report that quantifies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on U.S. carbon dioxide emissions. The report estimates that 2020 emissions will be 9.2 percent lower than in 2019, reaching a level last seen in 1983. At that time, BNEF notes, the economy was 60percent smaller...
As part of the government’s plans to prevent a second wave of COVID -19 infections across the country, the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD), in partnership with waste management giant, Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL), on Monday took the third phase of market disinfection exercise to...
The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has announced to undertake disinfection and fumigation exercise on Sunday, as part of phase three of the nationwide exercise being done to fight COVID-19. The exercise will start from 8 AM to 12 PM across all the major markets in the Metropolis. In view of this,...
Markets and lorry stations in the Greater Accra Region have benefited from the third national disinfection currently ongoing in the 16 regions of the country. The Accra exercise, which came off Thursday , is a collaboration between the government and waste management giant – Zoomlion Ghana Limited. It forms part...