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TIN mandatory full modalities out next week To ensure that the COVID-19 stimulus package for businesses reaches the four corners of the country, Rural and Community Banks would be part of the channels to be used in the distribution of funds, in addition to the EXIM Bank and...

The Ghana Institute of Freight Forwarders (GIFF) has pleaded to President Nana Akufo-Addo’s government to tarry awhile in the nationwide implementation of UNIPASS, now Integrated Customs Management system (ICUMS) to get all the fundamentals right. According to them, any attempt to introduce the failing system in busier ports like KIA...

Ghana Centre for Disease Control to be established 88 district, 6 new regional hospitals existing ones to see upgrades local pharma industry to be boosted The country’s health sector is set to see major infrastructure developments including the establishment of 88 districts and six new regional hospitals, the creation...

The contractor of the University of Ghana Hospital project, EDC Engineering and Construction Limited based in Isreal, has donated an amount of GH¢100,000 to the COVID-19 Trust Fund. This was in response to the clarion call made by the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo after he had established the...

The movie ‘Contagion’ should have given us a clue as to what was to come. Unfortunately, it was just another Hollywood movie for us—at least, a vast majority of us. And then, just before the presents and decorations of the New Year festivities had been stowed away, we were...

An essential determinant for any business success in today’s digital age is to have an e-business component: call up an e-Business consultant today to help set it up. I don’t think there is any doubt in our minds as to whether electronic enablement is needed for our businesses today....

The number of deaths caused by malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa could double to 769,000 this year, as efforts to curb the disease are disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organisation warned last week Thursday. The region has more than 25,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with more than 1,200...

Tanzania’s President John Magufuli called on international creditors last week Wednesday to cancel debts owed by African nations to enable them use the savings to battle the coronavirus. Tanzania has so far reported 284 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. Authorities have been urging people...

The test of leadership comes in many forms. And as the world battles the current pandemic, many leadership skills and styles are being tested. Every move, every decision and every plan counts to either propel a nation, organization or community forward or backward. At the end of the day,...

 Africa is no stranger to epidemics and public-health crises. Ebola is estimated to have killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa in 2014-16, and more recently claimed over 2,000 lives in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Because of their fragile health systems, African countries were able...