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In the wake of COVID-19, Consolidated Bank Ghana has reached out to the Potter’s Village Orphanage in Dodowa, Accra with food items including bags of rice, boxes of tin tomatoes, cooking oil, bags of gari, bags of sugar, boxes of tuna flakes, and boxes of biscuits. The donation is in...

The major goal of every insurance company is to be in a state of readiness to meet its liabilities in respect of the uncertain events insured. However, the events which have taken place in the past few months are clear indications that perhaps a number of insurance companies were...

“There is no virgin in a maternity ward.” – Cameroonian proverb Are you a patriot or a pirate? Growing up, our society sought to incubate a sense of patriotism in us; so that we would grow up to love our nation. It was more of a ‘civic religion’, wherein the...

Capemay Properties Limited, a luxury real-estate development company in Accra, Ghana, has launched its ‘Home at Home’ campaign to invite diasporans and foreign nationals with business interest in Ghana to invest in the motherland Ghana. A home is wherever you have a connection to - be it by birth,...

Rich culture, exotic foods & beautiful scenery is among the things China can boast of. It is always a privilege to experience another culture and I can confidently say the Chinese culture is among one of the most unique ones out there. I have had the privilege to study in...

African sovereigns’ border closures and broader lockdown measures have significantly slowed small-scale trade across Africa, a crucial source of income and employment on the continent Recovery will be slow and there is a risk of longer-term scarring from the crisis Falling revenues from economic slowdown, spending on measures,...

Samuel has been a cocoa farmer for 12 years. Since the end of the Akuafo cheque system, he had always been paid in cash for his cocoa, until last season. That was when the licensed buying company (LBC) that he sells to introduced a new system for purchasing cocoa....

Ghanaian pilot Eric Acquah started a drone company in 2017 to spray crops with pesticides, but when coronavirus hit the West African country he found a new mission - saving lives. The company has used 20 drones to disinfect about 38 open-air markets in Ghana, spraying a couple of acres...

MTN has waived charges on the official programme website of the COVID-19 Recovery and Resilience (CoRe) programme, www.core.com.gh. This means users of the website will not pay any data charges while browsing all aspects of the platform. The COVID-19 Recovery and Resilience (CoRe) programme was launched recently, and is an...

Africa is seeing coronavirus cases rapidly increasing and deaths rising, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). We've looked at the situation across the continent, and examined which countries are of most concern. How fast is coronavirus spreading? In terms of overall numbers, Africa currently accounts for only a small proportion...