Most of the players in the agricultural sector are poor or within the low-income bracket. Majority of smallholder farmers struggle to make a living from their toils.
This describes the state of Madam Apoba Nchor and over 650 members of the Akanyele Yirepogsi Association (AYA) in the Kasena-Nankani East District...
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...
The role of agri-financing in the expansion of agriculture has been underscored by financial giant Ecobank Ghana.
At the 10th edition of the annual Pre-Harvest Conference and Exhibitions held in Tamale, the bank joined forces with event-organiser Agri-house Foundation as a sponsor and facilitator.
The event was held under the theme...
The Association of Rural Banks-Ghana, which is made up of the over-one hundred and forty rural banks in Ghana, has launched a new corporate cloth.
The launch of new corporate Friday-wear was part of activities marking the 21st Biennial General Meeting held recently at Miklin Hotel in Kumasi.
The new cloth,...
The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC), has published its Semi-annual Report on the management and use of petroleum revenues for the first half of 2020.
The report is being released two months later than the statutory reporting date of 15th September. This is largely due to the Covid-19 pandemic,...
Crude oil prices tumbled on Monday, as investors waited for a decision by producer group OPEC+ whether to extend large output cuts to balance global markets, but vaccine hopes helped keep benchmarks on track to rise more than a fifth in November.
January Brent crude futures, which will expire later...
The Bui Power Authority (BPA) has commissioned 26 megawatts (MW) of solar photo voltait (PV) resources to augment its 404MW hydroelectric generating station.
The coming on stream of the 26MW floating solar PV is the beginning of the Bui hydro-solar hybrid production. It is the country’s first ever hybrid plant...
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...