The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected developed and developing countries alike, despite vast disparities in initial response capacities.
Global leaders were especially concerned about the disease’s potential implications for Africa, given the continent’s lack of financial and medical resources, weak health-care systems, fragile economies, and vulnerable populations.
But...
Presbyterian Boys Senior High School, (Presec- Legon) has emerged winners of the National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ) 2020, edition after brilliantly dominating their colleagues Adisadel College and Opoku Ware in the grand finally.
On winning the competition, Presec Legon has now extended their tally of trophies won to six...
Appruve, an API infrastructure used by financial services globally to verify identities, gain insights on the financial health of customers and detect fraudulent identities, has gone live in Egypt as it continues to expand across the continent.
Egypt is the latest African country in the Appruve network, and in extension...
Developments in ethnic conflict and secessionist agitations over the past decade are a cause for concern for countries in West Africa. The most recent of these being the declaration of a group of people declaing their independence in Ghana and calling themselves Western Togoland. It raises concern because they...
West Africa Regional Director, Yara International, Danquah Addo-Yobo, has stressed the need for the agricultural value chain actors to rethink and find sustainable approaches to doing business during and post COVID-19 across the value chain, so that the sector will remain resilient in the face of crisis and became...
A government constructed warehouse facility, under the One District One Warehouse (1D1W) initiative, partly funded with ‘oil money’, at Atasikrom in the Dormaa Municipality of the Ahafo Region, has stalled nine months after the construction deadline.
The project, which is now projected to be about 98 percent completed, was awarded...
GCB Bank Limited, Ghana’s largest and first indigenous Bank has partnered Eliho Ghana Ltd. to facilitate the transfer and receipt of funds in the cocoa farming and purchasing ecosystem, using the G-Money platform.
The G-Money/Eliho partnership is an outcome of the Bank’s interest in providing financial inclusion for the partially...
Ms. Corey Huntington, Head of Corporation of the Canadian High Commission in Accra, has said a robust and diverse food supply is an essential part of the health and nutrition response to COVID-19; so is properly defined and enforced national guidelines on food safety critical to COVID-19, and to...
Government’s decision to exempt the security agencies from the unification of pension schemes could affect the sustainability of the three tier pension system, the sector’s regulator, the National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA), has lamented.
Unification seeks to bring all parallel pension schemes under the three-tier system by 2021. But the...