Zipline, the world's only national scale on-demand drone delivery service, announced that it has begun delivering COVID-19 test samples. Zipline drones now fly test samples collected from patients in more than 1,000 health facilities located in difficult to reach rural areas of Ghana to Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical...
There is need to review the Stabilisation and Heritage Funds, to among other things allow these funds to be invested in high-yielding portfolios, Alex Mould - a former Chief Executive Officer of the state-owned Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), has advocated.
“We need to review our Stabilisation and Heritage Funds....
The Conference of Heads of Private Second-Circle Schools (CHOPSS), an association of private senior high schools in Ghana, has called on government to include them in the distribution of the COVID-19 soft loan or stimulus package.
President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Akufo Addo, about a fortnight ago announced...
“During the three weeks lock down, I was able to manage to stay home for the first week. But after that, I had to arrange with my clients to meet me at my shop where I kept it locked, to avoid detection by the security, and cut their hair,”...
Entrepreneurship is hard, and managing your business through difficult times is even harder in the absence of a business continuity plan. A business continuity plan is a plan that sets out the processes set aside to create a system of prevention and recovery from potential threats to a company...
Emirates in coordination with Dubai Health Authority (DHA) will be introducing additional precautions. Passengers on last week flight to Tunisia were all tested for COVID-19 before departing from Dubai.
Emirates is the first airline to conduct on-site rapid COVID-19 tests for passengers.
The quick blood test was conducted by the Dubai...
The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) has appealed to the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to commence immediate probe into the recent bribery allegations involving the former Chief Executive Officer of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) boss, Asante Berko.
According to the GII, the incident following which the former TOR boss...
… bank now meets BoG’s stated capital
has confirmed it has received GH¢130 million capital funding from the Ghana Amalgamated Trust Limited (GAT), thus completing the final step in meeting the minimum capital requirement introduced by the Central Bank.
“The bank would like to remind the general public that earlier this...
The Western North Regional Minister, Kinsley Aboagye Gyedu, has urged the private sector to sustain its support to the government in containing the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
He noted, particularly, that continued support from private companies and other benevolent individuals, especially the provision of personal protective equipment (PPE), will...
The Coronavirus Alleviation Programme (CAP) was proposed by government to effectively manage social and economic recovery in Ghana as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic…or so we thought.
A clear CAP implementation strategy has not been communicated till date.
It is common knowledge that the majority of small businesses have been adversely...