The National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) has warned applicants for the NBSSI/Mastercard Foundation’s Nkosuo to disregard any message soliciting money from them to complete the application form and qualify for the loan. According to the NBSSI, any such communication should be treated with contempt, as it is...
The e-waste management project (E-MAGIN) funded by the European Union organised a Training of Trainers and Capacity building workshops for selected Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (MSMEs) from the e-waste sector in Ghana.
The purpose of the training programme was to equip Trainers and MSMEs in the e-waste sector with...
Continuing its well-grounded tradition, Agricultural Manufacturing Group Limited (AMG) has donated a sum of GH¢100,000, 1,200 bags of fertilisers as well as a generous number of nose masks and hand sanitisers toward the 36th edition of the annual Farmers Day celebration.
With this year’s celebration to be held under the...
The COVID-19 Recovery and Resilience Programme (CoRe) is set to equip members of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association with requisite skills to help build resilience and deal with socioeconomic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speaking at a short ceremony to sign the Memorandum of Understanding with the CoRe...
My mother was a nurse—the increasingly rare Florence Nightingale kind, I must add. Growing up with a nurse as a mother, one tends to have a special relationship with hospitals. One’s life becomes so interwoven with hospitals that one eventually develops a love-hate relationship with these health facilities. Hospitals...
In accordance with International Ship and Port Facility Security Code, the Ghana Ports and Harbors Authority’s Security Department, has conducted its quarterly drill to ensure that the alertness levels of the Authority’s security personnel stay at its high levels.
The scope of the exercise, which was held on the 21st...
The ferocity of the 2020 presidential election in the United States is not about Donald Trump per se, but about what he represents: the racist structures of power that have persisted in America for centuries, though sometimes in mutated form. The long history of America’s state-sponsored racism will draw...
The Voices against Tribalism (VaT), a social development, research and advocacy based Non-Governmental Organisation has urged all presidential aspirants to be decorous in their utterances when campaigning.
The group, in statement reminded the aspirants to first seek the unity of the country by avoiding acts that are divisive.
The chairman of...
Private sector actors in the oil palm value chain, when given the right knowledge and needed financial support, are able to influence policies that advance the development of the commodity in Ghana.
Over the few years, the oil palm sub-sector has grappled with the lack of a national standard for the...
Contrary to the impression that persons living in rural communities would be more inclined to use mobile money services due to their reliance on relations, acquaintances and friends in urban areas for remittances, a report - the ‘Household Survey on Information Communications Technology (ICT)’ - has revealed the contrary.
Due...