Out of a total of GHc99 million spent on loans and projects, Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) in 2019, disbursed GHc92.5 million to 74,334 micro loans beneficiaries, the Finance Committee in Parliament has presented in its report on the budget performance of the Office of Government Machinery.
The report...
MTN has to be commended for the extension of the fee waiver on Mobile Money (MoMo) on-net transfers up to GHC100 daily till Sept 30, 2020. The extension gives opportunity to MoMo customers to continue sending money transfer value up to GHS100 daily to MoMo wallets for free.
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Ecobank Transnational Incorporated, the parent of the Ecobank Group, the leading pan-African bank with banking operations in 33 countries, concluded its 32nd Annual General Meeting (AGM) & Extraordinary General Meeting in Lagos, Nigeria.
For the first time in the history of ETI and in line with preventive measures to curb...
Ghana’s new 2019 Companies Act is expected to make it much more difficult for Chinese fishing corporations to illegally use Ghanaian ‘front’ companies to obtain local licenses.
The new Act, we learn, requires clear identification of ‘beneficial owners’ and designed to improve transparency in company ownership and reveal any vested...
The Ghana Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (GHACCO) is advocating for the full implementation the bioenergy policy after a research conducted by the group affirmed the benefits of the policy if it is fully rolled out.
In a media interaction, Mohammed Amin Lukumanu, Executive Director of Ghana Alliance for Clean Cookstove...
Cultivation of poor planting materials and wrong cultural farming practices have been identified as major challenges accounting for low cashew productivity among local farmers.
In recent times, cashew has been identified as a new ‘gold’ for farmers, especially among those in the savannah-transition zone. It has triggered massive cultivation across...
The Lumiere Group International (LGI) and the Chamber of Pharmacy, Ghana have announced the establishment of US$200 million COVID-19 Relief Fund to foster medium and long-term financial stability of pharmaceutical sector in Ghana.
The agreement, in the form of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), formalises the mutual interaction between the...
Dalex Finance donated medical supplies worth GH¢20,000 to the St. Andrews Catholic Hospital, at Kordiabe to help fight the Coronavirus pandemic.
Head of Support Services of Dalex Finance, Eric Asante, presented the items to the hospital. He was supported by the Corporate Communications Coordinator, Yaw Acheampong Adjei and Kofi Arkoh...
The Institute of Public Relations, Ghana (IPR), has appointed, Peter Martey Agbeko, head of Public Relations at the Ghana Standards Authority to serve on its Governing Council, as a member without portfolio.
The Council is the highest decision-making unit of the Institute, which is the sole professional body for Public...
For the third consecutive time, quarterly GDP figures from the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) indicate that the agriculture sector has outpaced the industrial sector in growth, making it the first time in recent history, at least since rebasing of the economy in 2013, even though the sector is one...