Leading marketing and brand communications network, Ogilvy Africa, has named Alex van Niekerk as Group Creative Director. Based in Nairobi, Alex joins the network’s creative leadership team to a portfolio of brands managed by Ogilvy Africa from Kenya and select countries across SSA.
Alex is a highly accomplished creative, having won...
The cost and ease of cross-border payments, particularly local currency settlements, will play a crucial role in success for the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and as a consequence have a bearing on rates of recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic for countries in the region.
This was the consensus...
The Kosmos Innovation Centre (KIC) has awarded two startup businesses which emerged winners of the 2020 edition of its AgriTech Challenge US$100,000 to invest into development and upscale their business plan.
On top of the US$50,000 seed funds to each of the two winners, the two businesses also stand to...
The soon-to-be-established Development Bank Ghana (DBG) will prioritise support for agribusiness, manufacturing, Information Communication Technology (ICT) and mortgage finance, Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta has said.
He said these sectors represent the engines of growth and transformation for a ‘Ghana Beyond Aid', and that the new lender’s focus will be...
Despite PFJ’s gains, inadequate raw materials linger
Sector loses more than US$5m to pandemic
Millions of jobs on the line, food security under threat
Poultry farmers and feed-millers across the country are expressing worry over a looming collapse of the local poultry industry due to the scarcity and...
The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has announced that from September 1, 2021, the names of pensioners aged 72 and above who fail to complete or renew their pensioner certificates will be deleted.
According to SSNIT, at the moment there are some 13,451 pensioners aged 72 years and...
Government has signed an additional US$200million financing agreement with the International Development Association (IDA) of the World Bank Group, aimed at procuring vaccines to support the country’s fight against the deadly COVID-19 pandemic.
The funds fall under the Second Additional Financing for the Ghana COVID-19 Emergency Preparedness and Response Project...
A labour expert, Kofi Asare Asianowa, has expressed scepticism at government's COVID-19 economic recovery programme - saying public servants may not enthusiastically provide the needed support required to accelerate the programme due to the quantum of their pay rise recently announced.
According to him, the 4 percent pay rise in...
The Ghana Shippers' Authority has educated the shipping community in the Western Region on the need to sign onto Marine Cargo Insurance, an insurance package that protects individuals or a company’s investment.
Without cargo insurance, all cargo is handled, stored and carried at the shippers’, owners’ and consignees’ risk.
With Marine...
The Ghana Gas Company reflects the many blessings, in terms of natural resources, God has gifted Ghana.
Ghana's oil and gas history stretch a bit over a decade. Ghana discovered its oil richness in 2007. The large-scale oil extraction and gas generation were initiated in the year 2011. These extraction...