MTN Foundation has invested a total of US$15 million in 150 projects in Ghana over the past 12 years. These investments cover areas such education, healthcare and economic empowerment.
On education, the foundation has 87 projects and these are on Information Communications Technology (ICT), dormitories for some Senior High Schools,...
The U.S. Embassy in Accra and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have formally launched the U.S. State Department Bureau of African Affairs’ University Partnerships Initiative (UPI) at an in-person and virtual launch ceremony on the KNUST campus on Wednesday October 14, 2020.
The event was presided...
PZ Cussons, as part of the Global Handwashing Day celebrations, has donated handwashing stations and Carex and Camel products worth GH¢50,000 to some orphanages across the country.
The products donated included hand sanitisers, antibacterial soap and hand wash. Global Handwashing Day is a global advocacy day dedicated to increasing awareness...
Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Henry Kokofu, has underscored the importance of institutional collaboration between mining industry players and the environmental regulator.
Mr. Kokofu, who assumed office in August 2020, has being engaging various stakeholders to acquaint himself with his new role and to gain a deeper...
Bayer, as part of this year’s company’s Future of Farming Dialogue virtual event series, has emphasised the importance of the company’s sustainability commitments it set in 2019.
Liam Condon, President of the Crop Science division of Bayer, addressing participants said the impact of COVID-19 and resulting economic instability reinforced the...
Initiating a social network amid a COVID pandemic may appear insensitive, but for the people in Ada State it is a way to own and bring economic development to an area that has not received much governmental support for many years.
On November 7, 2020, Ada Development Network (ADN) will...
AngloGold Ashanti’s Obuasi Mine has said its effort to enhance agriculture development in the Obuasi municipality is being undermined by illegal mining activities, or galamsey, despite committing US$620,000 into local agricultural programmes.
Senior Sustainability Manager, of AngloGold Ashanti-Obuasi Mine, Emmanuel Baidoo, said the galamsey activities are happening close to the...
Imperial General Assurance Company Limited, a licenced non-life Insurance Company in Ghana, has paid a Contractors All Risk (CAR) Policy claim of GH¢660,647.50 to China Henan International Cooperation Group, contractor for the Sissai River Drain Extension Project in Kumasi.
Part of the contract work that was fully insured by Imperial...
The Consumer Protection Agency (CPC) has stated that the practice of detaining passengers on arrival at the Kotoka International Airport due to their inability to pay the US$150 flat fee for PCR test to ascertain their Coronavirus status is illegal and must stop immediately.
According to CPC, a body with...
It is exactly three years since October 2017 when the B&FT exclusively reported that the central bank had begun stakeholder consultations on establishing an apex body for microfinance institutions in the country, in the form of an ARB Apex Bank for rural and community banks (RCBs).
But so far, nothing...