Economy

Mr. Oliver Akubia, the Managing Director of Millennium Insurance Company, has expressed his profound gratitude to the sales executives for their almost 30% contribution to the company’s current production of about GH¢27m so far achieved. This current production figure, he said, represents about 49% growth over the previous year’s...

Benedicta Addie, a 50-year-old pepper farmer and member of the Kuyiyem Farmers Group Association (KFGA) no longer needs to travel two hours to Paga or Navorong in the Upper East Region to buy agro-inputs for her three-acre farm. Like other members of her group, the hassle involved in engaging...

Quote from Warren Buffet: “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently. You have to be wary in life as well as business. It’s a little scary to think about how easy it is to...

Private pension funds have maintained their strong growth over the years - reaching a record high of GH¢17.3billion in 2019 from GH¢13-billion in the previous year, exactly a decade on since introduction of the three-tier pension system. The impressive growth of private pension funds over the years, according to the...

In an effort to consolidate the gains made in fighting the outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country, the Ghana Exports Promotion Authority (GEPA) has presented assorted items to artisans in Sunyani to help control spread of the virus at their workplaces. The items were made up of Veronica...

Favourable tax system Expansion of NEIP, others Access to market through AfCFTA Startups and small businesses in the country want President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s next term in office to focus on making the business environment more friendly - by reforming the tax system, expanding the existing entrepreneurial programmes...

…as they endorse FDA PLS initiative Multinational retail shops in Ghana are keen to increase the volume of local products on sale in their various supermarkets to consolidate gains from the Food and Drug Authority’s Progressive Licencing Scheme (PLS) certification initiative. Most are targetting a range of Made in...

Ghanaian visual artist, Ibrahim Mahama has been awarded the 2020 Principal Prince Claus Laureate. Ibrahim is actively involved in improving social conditions and his powerful artworks use provocative materials and sites to examine and expose histories, uphold the role of labour, challenge authorities and criticise mismanagement of resources. Directly addressing...

Plantains are a close relative of the banana and tend to be mistaken for them. But in one of the 120 countries that grow much of the world’s supply of plantains — like Uganda, Colombia and Cameroon — people know the distinction between the two. That’s because plantains are...

Prudential Life Insurance Ghana, a leading life insurer, has teamed with Enterprise Life Insurance Ghana to be co-underwriters for SafeNet - an innovative new mobile insurance product. Vodafone, Ghana’s second-largest mobile network operator, is using a platform developed by MicroEnsure - a part of the Micro Insurance Company - to...