This weekend's second successive race at the legendary Silverstone circuit in Northamptonshire, England is the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix. This celebrates Silverstone holding the first F1 GP championship race in May 1950. Motorsport fans in Ghana can join the F1 Ghana team at the Nester Square, Airport City, Accra...
Huawei Technologies has snatched the title of biggest smartphone seller from Samsung Electronics in the second quarter of 2020, according to results released and vetted by research firm Canalys. Huawei shipped a total of 55.8 million phones in the second quarter, beating the 53.7 million shipped by Samsung for...
……timely financing for post-COVID-19 economic growth
The United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA), the leading pan-African financial services group, has acted as the lead arranger for a consortium of Nigerian commercial and international banks in a US$1.5billion Pre-Export Finance Facility for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and its upstream...
Management of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has moved to end the practice of weighing-scales tampering with fresh preventive and punitive measures.
Cocoa buyers in the West African nation have come under fire after a media exposé revealed systemic cheating of cocoa farmers through adjustment of analogue weighing scales.
According to...
B&FT yesterday held its fifth in the series of ‘Ghana’s Most Respected CEOs Breakfast Series’ with the theme ‘Bringing the Economy Back to Life: The Role of Banking and Finance’, where the Country Director for Deloitte Ghana, David Kwadwo Owusu, who was a panel speaker noted that with the...
The issue of Cocoa Produce Buying Companies (PBCs) adjusting their scales to cheat cocoa farmers of their due is not only sad but unconscionable.
A private broadcasting station’s latest investigative documentary ‘Missing Kilos’ exposed the stealing of cocoa beans by clerks in licenced cocoa buying companies of the country. The...
Jobberman, the leading recruitment digital portal in Ghana has introduced skills assessments as a more objective means by which employers and recruiters can hire new team members.
The skills assessments are the first of its kind to be introduced by any job portal in Ghana and its main objective is...
Introduction
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Ghana in March 2020, economic policymaking has been dominated by measures to address the many impacts of the pandemic. In particular, fiscal policy has been deployed on a massive scale to shore up the public health response to COVID-19 and also lessen...
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Orderly exit of the Middle East over the medium-term.
MTN Group has reported encouraging results for the first half of 2020, navigating well through the economic crisis brought on by COVID-19.
MTN reported service revenue growth of 9,4% to R80 billion and EBITDA growth of 10,9% to R42...