The Northern Regional Office of the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) has said negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have led to the closure of 82 hotels and accommodation units by management of those facilities due to low patronage. The resultant effect of the closures, according to the GTA, has negatively...
The Chief Executive Officer of First National Bank Ghana, Dominic Adu, has hailed the implementation of Ghana.Gov - an easy to manage digital payment platform for the government, as an outstanding intervention for the Ghanaian economic system. Mr. Adu remarked that providing one platform to streamline transactions - ranging from...
The Act of Parliament that set up the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - (Act 490) - is undergoing amendment to allocate more powers to the state body as a means to help it regulate the ever-dynamic space in which it operates, the Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation...
… as he pushes for establishment of a Training Development Authority It is about time the country invested in the establishment of a National Training Development Authority (NTDA) which would be mandated to plan and pay for training for the nation's workforce, the Director, Consultancy Directorate at the Management Development...
Dentsu Ghana, leader in advertising and marketing communications, as part of its CSR activities has donated educational materials worth thousands of Ghana Cedis including computers, projectors, assorted reading and creative books for various levels, math sets, set squares, crayons, legos, and A4 sheets to the Tesano Cluster of Schools. This...
Foremost ICT infrastructure and systems integrator in Sub-Saharan Africa, Inlaks, has announced that Kyari Bukar has been appointed the new MD/CEO, Africa Operations for the company. An experienced business leader in information technology, financial services and business analytics, Mr. Bukar will succeed Femi Adeoti who has served as the...
About 86 percent of Ghanaians now have access to electricity – among the highest rates in sub-Saharan Africa, Minister of Energy Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh has said. Ghana’s electricity coverage is above the sub-Saharan average of 46.7 percent according to the World Bank, and the highest in West Africa -...
The president of the Ghana Rice Inter-Professional Body (GRIB), Nana Kwabena Adjei-Ayeh II, has said until government puts in some measures to support proper preparation of rice farmlands, targets for self-sufficiency will be difficult to achieve. According to him, there are good intentions for rice farmers but little is seen...
The Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Dr. Ibrahim Mohammed Awal, has charged the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) to help mobilise COVID-19 vaccines to support the vaccination efforts in member-countries. He said as the umbrella-body of Tourism promotion globally, UNWTO is in a better position to convince developed...
Developmental work is to begin in earnest on the 1,099-acre Free Zones Authority land located at Boankra, Ampabame, Edwenase, Abenase, Donaso, Hwereso and Aduakorokyere, all in the Ejisu Traditional Area. The land was acquired in 2005 as one of Ghana's Export Processing Zones under the Free Zones Authority, and is...