The Minister for Trade and Industry, Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen, has sworn in and inaugurated the governing board of the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA), saying the authority’s success is extremely crucial to the government’s industrial transformation agenda.
Addressing the six-member governing board being chaired by Professor Felix Charles Mills Robertson,...
-GhIPSS boss tells shop owners
Businesses are being encouraged to find innovative ways to get their customers to choose electronic payment channels over cash. This is to enable such businesses to have less cash on them and reduce their exposure to robbery and pilfering.
There are concerns of robberies on the...
Board Chairman for the Right to Information Commission (RTIC), Justice K.A. Ofori Atta, has said all the laws that tackles information request are now overridden by the Right to Information law (RTI), therefore institutions must begin to take note.
According to him, the (RTI) Law, Act 2019 (Act 989), allows...
...says reform plans remain on the table
Head of the Financial Service Division at the Ministry of Finance, Sampson Akligoh has stated that a reset of erstwhile development financial institutions - Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) and National Investment Bank (NIB) - would've been ‘too costly’ -financially and socially - in...
An evaluation into the outcomes of Fairtrade’s West Africa Cocoa Programme has found stronger cooperatives among participating producers.
Small-scale cocoa producer organizations across Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana are more resilient as businesses and better attuned to their members’ needs as a result of Fairtrade’s West Africa Cocoa Programme (WACP), a...
The Global Market Share Omdia Study 2021 has been released. For the many millions of Samsung owners it will come as no surprise that the brand was certified as the Number One Global Refrigerator Brand in the World.
The Omdia report analyses connected major home appliances including the fridges that...
Best Point Savings and Loans Company has launched its Mobile Banking Service to provide an all-inclusive virtual banking experience encompassing all digital services to the doorsteps of customers.
The ‘Best Mobile Banking’ product, tagged ‘Wo Phone Nie, Wo Sika Nie, can be operated on all types of phones - including the...
The Africa Protected Areas Congress Secretariat welcomes and applauds the announcement by nine organisations - through the ‘Protecting Our Planet Challenge’ - which have pledged US$5billion over the next 10 years to support the creation, expansion, management and monitoring of protected and conserved areas of land, inland water and sea, working with Indigenous Peoples, local communities,...
Commercial banks have signalled an appetite to ease their stance on credit to the private sector, the latest credit condition survey conducted by the Bank of Ghana has revealed.
Results from the survey indicate that in the coming months there is a potential increase in demand for credit; similarly, commercial...
Vodafone Ghana Foundation has announced Alfred Anarfi Kyeremanteng, winner of the 2021 edition of Citi FM’s ‘The Literacy Challenge’, as the National Ambassador for its e-learning app, ‘Instant Schools’.
15-year-old Alfred Anarfi is a pupil of the Happy Kids School in Accra, and is expected to drive the Instant School...