The Pan-African Savings and Loans Company Limited has unveiled a women-focused financial services programme dubbed ‘MAMA’ to provide some selected resources that women need to succeed in business.  Also aimed at bridging the gap in financial inclusion by targetting unbanked women, small and medium-sized enterprise owners, smallholder farmers and the...
Develops National Clean Cooking Strategy and Investment Prospectus Energy Minister Matthew Opoku Prempeh has disclosed that the ministry is developing a National Clean Cooking Strategy and Investment Prospectus to promote and develop the industry. The move, which is supported by the World Bank, is expected to be completed and...
For seven years, Mohammed Abubakr has worked as a loading boy at the onion market at Agbogbloshie. Before him was his senior brother Hussein who now works as a trailer mate and travels with his master Diallo twice a month to Niger to buy onions. The Agblogbloshie onion market in...
The Managing Director of Ghacem, Mr. Stefano Gallini, has called for a stronger partnership with Ghacem’s cement distributors and direct customers in the country to ensure that the needs of all retailers and end users are duly served across the country. Mr. Gallini encouraged customers to continue to alert Ghacem...
Autochek Africa has announced its strategic partnership with the Automobile Dealers Union of Ghana (ADUG). This strong collaboration is geared at delivering a digitized and enabling platform for vehicle dealers in Ghana. Autochek through its technology solution would be working with ADUG to create a more sustainable and structured marketplace...
To catch a complaint: Life is far from perfect. Things go wrong, sometimes. At home. At work. Wherever humans interact, things do not always go according to plan. In the world of business, when things do go wrong, customers complain. When customer expectations end up being higher than the actual...
The Ghana Employers' Association (GEA) has asked businesses to make the COVID-19 vaccination part of the workplace wellness programme, as a means to educate workers on the importance of taking the vaccine and the ability it has to break the pandemic’s spread. According to the GEA, in the interest of...
 Industry & Consumer Information  I like the Wikipedia definition of a quality circle. Thus, a quality circle or quality control circle is a group of workers who do the same or similar work, and who meet regularly to identify, analyse and solve work-related problems. It consists of a minimum three and maximum twelve...
In accordance with Articles 179 and 180 of the 1992 Constitution, on 12 March 2021, Ghana’s Leader of Government Business in Parliament, Osei Kyei-Mensah Bonsu, read the 2021 Budget Statement for the 2021 financial year. Earlier, the Information Minister whispered that as part of the post-COVID-19 economic recovery efforts, government...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) says it has settled more than 20 percent of the validated claims presented by customers of defunct fund management companies which had their licences revoked late 2019. According to a latest update by the regulator, it has, as of March 31, 2021, made payments...