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FirstRand receives US$235m guarantee from MIGA to unlock liquidity Nearly 60 percent of support directed toward low-income countries.
MIGA, a member of the World Bank Group, has issued guarantees of up to US$235million to a wholly-owned subsidiary of South Africa’s FirstRand group...
COVID-19 pandemic presents numerous opportunities – President
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Monday noted that the Coronavirus pandemic has presented numerous opportunities which can be nurtured to build a stronger,...
Gov’t clears chunk of education sector debts
Government has over the last three and half years cleared 91% of debt popularly known as ‘legacy arrears’ that it inherited in the education...
GIZ, SECO hand over COVID-19 support items to MoFA
The GIZ-Competitive Cashew Initiative (ComCashew) programme, with joint funding from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Swiss State...
Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka’s thoughts ….After COVID-19, what will Africa look like in 2030 and 2063?
The COVID-19 pandemic, one of the world’s most significant events, has resulted in cessation of economic activities that will lead to a significant decline...
Editorial : Vitamin ‘A’ rich maize production could help infant mortality
Dr. Manfred B. Ewool, a Senior Research Scientist and Maize Breeder at the Council for Scientific Industrial Research (CSIR) Crops Research Institute (CRI), notes...
Editorial : Reconcile differing positions of collapsed financial institutions for clarity
While President Akufo-Addo and the Receiver of collapsed financial institutions, Eric Nana Nipa, have publicly claimed that they have almost completed paying depositors’ locked...
The man redefining and looking beyond politics in the Akim Oda Municipality
The political landscape of Ghana is gradually shifting to all-inclusive governance, with the peasant majority and the working class still backing the political establishments.
It...
Meet the young agripreneurs who won’t let COVID-19 get them down
Since COVID-19 struck, life has changed for entrepreneurs and businesses around the world. Due to lockdowns and movement restrictions, smallholder farmers and rural businesses...
COCOBOD takes steps to revive cocoa production …Kick-starts massive rehabilitation of farms in Western North and Eastern
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has rolled out a rehabilitation programme for cocoa farms affected by the swollen shoot disease in the Western North Cocoa...