Innovative Strategies for Startups and Small businesses Pitching Right: How to pitch your startup to investors It is a truism that a good idea sells itself, but then, for a good idea to sell itself, it must first be presented in the best possible way. Many startups have failed to secure...
By Bernard ALLOTEY I had the rare privilege of working with one of the gems God has blessed Ghana with. Joy FM once described this personality as the face of corporate communications in Ghana. Rightly so, I can confidently say she walks and talks Public Relations. Thankfully, the Institute of Public...
Public financial management (PFM) expert and chartered accountant Eric Oduro Osae has called on accountants to, at all times, be interested in fair reporting. “I want to appeal to my colleagues - let us be interested in what is happening within the public sector space, because we operate within the...
The Ghana Chamber of Mines has partnered the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) to introduce standards for electric cables for the mining industry. The move is expected to empower local cable manufacturers to produce to industry standards and will contribute to reducing the amount miners spend importing cables into the country. This...
A Legal Practitioner based in Accra, Lamtiig Apanga, has supported 16 Community-based Health Planning and Service (CHPS) centres in the Nabdam District of the Upper East Region to help fight the Coronavirus (COVID-19). The supports, which included quantities of hand sanitizers, Veronica buckets, nose masks, hand gloves, soaps, and educational...
Although mass vaccination campaigns are picking up speed in the West, the end of the COVID-19 pandemic still is not even in sight. For that, the United States and other rich countries have only themselves to blame. It has been clear at least since the early summer of 2020 that...
AngloGold Ashanti has launched the first of its kind Remote Operations Centre As-a-Service program, in collaboration with specialised systems integrator Ramjack Technology Solutions (RAMJACK). With an emphasis on improving Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), the program – which makes use of Ramjack’s Remote Operations Centre (rROC) in Johannesburg – is designed...
The abandoned uncompleted Maternity and Children’s Block at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi is to be completed at a cost of €155 million, the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced. The President, announced this when he cut the sod for the completion of the Maternity and Children’s...
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, is set to open and handover the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat Building to the African Union Commission (AUC), in Accra, on Monday. The AfCFTA Secretariat will administer the free trade agreement creating a 'Single Market' for 55 African countries. The combined...
Oil price drop will continue to take its toll on Nigerian banks while the coronavirus is reversing Ghanaian banks’ improving financial metrics Kenyan banks’ profitability will remain strong and absorb higher loan provisioning without eroding capital but will fall for Tanzanian banks’ because of higher provisions However, African...