Since COVID-19 struck, life has changed for entrepreneurs and businesses around the world. Due to lockdowns and movement restrictions, smallholder farmers and rural businesses have been unable to access markets and sell produce or other products. As they often have little or no access to social security, rural youth...
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has rolled out a rehabilitation programme for cocoa farms affected by the swollen shoot disease in the Western North Cocoa Region.
As part of the rehabilitation exercise, COCOBOD has directed all diseased cocoa trees to be cut down for re-planting with new hybrid cocoa seedlings.
Cocoa production...
The following article by Rukayatu Sanusi was written for Kina Advisory’s ‘Step Up, Scale Up, Scale Out’© campaign. The campaign is founded on the belief that African companies – those born and bred on the continent – have the potential to step up, scale up and scale out, both within...
It has been widely reported that barring any unforeseen circumstances, the Customs division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) will not allow into the country, importation of cars that have been defined according to the Customs Amendment Act 2020 as salvaged or do not have clean title by the...
Prudential Bank Limited has donated GH¢200,000 to the COVID-19 National Trust Fund in Accra.
This is in addition to earlier donations made by the indigenous bank to the Ghana Association of Bankers, Ghana Tourism Authority, Ghana Immigration Service, and Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in the fight against the...
Ghana's seaborne trade in import and export volume in the first quarter of 2020 recorded a net effect of negative 43.3% compared to the same period in 2019.
The indication is that imports in first-quarter dropped by 24.52% compared to same period in 2019 - in total of 2.7 million...
From a new digital marketplace to connect Africa’s creatives with global markets, to masterclasses to help designers share and learn, and webinars to inform and inspire: the African Development Bank’s flagship Fashionomics Africa(link is external) initiative has taken great strides this year.
The website and mobile app were unveiled at...
Daniel Sackey, Managing Director of Ecobank Ghana, has said the bank’s already active digital products, led by Ecobank Mobile App, have seen increased uptake in usage from 70% to 90% as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
With merchant products such as Ecobank Omni Lite and Omni Plus for businesses...
Government, through the Ministry of Communications and its implementing agency National Information Technology Agency (NITA), is deploying the Smart Workplace solution to all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), and Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs).
The pilot of ‘Smart Workplace solution’ commenced in 2018. However, government accelerated its deployment with...