Last week Saturday, 25th April, while Portugal was celebrating 1974’s peaceful revolution, the Portuguese community in Ghana -both companies and individuals, spent the full day donating alcohol-based hand sanitizers and bottled water to the Ghana Police Service.
This community in Ghana, having close to 200 registered nationals, was able to...
Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has acknowledged the adverse effects of COVID-19 on both local and global economies, saying it will result in low revenue mobilisation as prices of crude oil slump on the world market.
Dr. Bawumia said this when he launched the Universal QR Code and Proxy Pay...
Importers who were troubled due to the refusal of shipping companies to waive demurrage/detention charges as requested by the Ghana Shippers Authority (GSA) from March 30, 2020 to April 19, 2020 can now heave a sigh of relief as the industry regulator has concluded consultations with other stakeholders to...
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has encouraged stakeholders in the financial sector to intensify public education and sensitisation on the new electronic payment system, including the use of Universal QR Code Payment Service and Proxy Pay for efficient and convenient payment.
Speaking at the launch of the Universal QR Code...
Chemico Limited has supported the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR) with GH₵50,000 toward its research activities in the fight against COVID-19.
The company had earlier presented a cheque for GH₵100,000 to the COVID-19 National Trust Fund to support the government’s effort in curbing the spread of coronavirus.
The donation,...
For two years running the country’s agriculture sector has experienced declines in growth, despite an impressive performance in 2017 after the government introduced the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) programme.
Annual GDP figures released by the Ghana Statistical Service show that the country’s largest employer – the agriculture sector...
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The Minister for Aviation, Joseph Kofi Adda, has said that domestic airline operation is likely to resume by the coming weekend after all airports in the country were closed down due...
Mobile money transfers across different networks - also known as Mobile Money Interoperability (MMI) - have shot up by 358 percent in the first three months of this year, compared to the same period last year.
The volume went up from 1,118,210 in the first quarter of last year to...
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of MTN Ghana, Selorm Adadevoh, has been adjudged CEO of the year 2019 within MTN Group, as voted for by the company’s senior leadership. He shares the award with the CEO of MTN Benin, Stephen Blewett.
This was announced at the Group’s first digital Quarterly...
Our world today is dealing with a crisis of monumental proportions. The vicious, novel coronavirus is wreaking havoc across the globe, destroying lives and ruining livelihoods. The primary cost of the pandemic as seen in the loss of human lives is distressing, but the secondary effects on the global...