The National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (NEIP) Greenhouse Estate Project, West Africa’s biggest greenhouse project, was officially outdoored yesterday at Dawhenya in the Greater Accra Region by the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
Unveiling 75, out of the total 1,000 green houses and entrepreneurship and innovation centre for training, the...
In 1933, the Glass-Steagall Act established the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to insure deposits of commercial banks. India, the Philippines and Sri Lanka all in Asia continent established their schemes in 1961, 1963 and 1987 respectively. In the Continental Europe, the German scheme which is administered by private...
As part of efforts to ensure a robust implementation of Ghana’s regulations on e-waste management, the European Union-funded E-MAGIN project organised a two-day Roundtable Policy Dialogue in Sekondi-Takoradi and Cape Coast respectively.
The Dialogue aimed at bringing together local policymakers to brainstorm and collect ideas on local challenges, solutions and...
MIGA, a member of the World Bank Group, has issued guarantees of up to US$235million to a wholly-owned subsidiary of South Africa’s FirstRand group for a period of up to 15 years, covering the subsidiaries’ mandatory reserves held as per regulatory requirements in Botswana, Eswatini, Ghana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Nigeria...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Monday noted that the Coronavirus pandemic has presented numerous opportunities which can be nurtured to build a stronger, self-reliant and resilient Ghanaian economy.
He pointed out that the pandemic is a wakeup call for economies to push for self-reliance, as the raging disease has...
Government has over the last three and half years cleared 91% of debt popularly known as ‘legacy arrears’ that it inherited in the education sector from the previous government in 2017, Education Minister Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh has said.
According to the minister, part of this debt resulted from the...
The COVID-19 pandemic, one of the world’s most significant events, has resulted in cessation of economic activities that will lead to a significant decline in GDP, an unprecedented social disruption, and the loss of millions of jobs. According to estimates by the African Development Bank, the contraction of the...
Dr. Manfred B. Ewool, a Senior Research Scientist and Maize Breeder at the Council for Scientific Industrial Research (CSIR) Crops Research Institute (CRI), notes that since maize is a staple food in Ghana, enhancing it with Vitamin A is a long- term approach to minimise Vitamin 'A' Deficiency (VAD)...
While President Akufo-Addo and the Receiver of collapsed financial institutions, Eric Nana Nipa, have publicly claimed that they have almost completed paying depositors’ locked funds, Ezekiel Annor-Head of the Association of Affected Customers of Savings and Loans institutions, is disputing the claims.
According to Mr. Annor, many of the affected...
The political landscape of Ghana is gradually shifting to all-inclusive governance, with the peasant majority and the working class still backing the political establishments.
It is worth noting that as a democratic republic, the support received from both the working class and peasant majority is considered out of free-will. Over...