TV3 Network, Ghana’s number television station has announced Sunday, April 25, 2021 as the grand finale for this year’s edition of its children’s talent show, Talented Kidz. The show will be telecast live on TV3 and on Facebook (@tv3Ghana) at exactly 3pm.  Ahead of the night expected to witness...
Yasmin Kumi is the Founder of Africa Foresight Group and Executive Director of the Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance. Africa Foresight Group (AFG) is an African-owned and managed advisory firm with offices in London and Accra. AFG enhances the African business landscape by providing locally accessible, world-class insights and advisory services to...
Nana Kwesi Gyan-Apenteng, Apagyahene of Akyem Tafo-Ati, and Former Chairperson, National Media Commission, has provided intriguing insight into his 60-year career as a journalist, urging current practitioners to always put public interest first. Nana Gyan-Apenteng, speaking on ‘MTN Bright Conversations’, a programme that is aimed at celebrating veteran personalities for...
In her recent article for the BBC Africa, Mrs. Elizabeth Ohene, in her characteristic colorful and enjoyable prose, discussed the origins of the kente cloth, its aesthetic appeal in Ghanaian culture and society, and the significance our famous traditional cloth is garnering on the global scene. She hinted at a...
The statement that approximately 90% of the Ghanaian trawl fleet is beneficially owned by Chinese corporations has prompted a backlash from some members of the Ghana Industrial Trawlers Association and others. It has been argued that, on paper, the licences for these trawlers are held by Ghanaian companies and they...
Although the Coronavirus pandemic has increased government expenditure and negatively affected revenue generation, it offers an opportunity to improve on existing health infrastructure, Minister for Health, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, has said. He said despite the pandemic posing a serious challenge to government quest to meet its budgetary demands, giant strides have...
The COVID-19 crisis significantly impacted the real estate market in Ghana. As all facets of life globally were being affected, Ghana’s economy declined sharply to 2.6% from the projected 6.8% for the year 2020; Health concerns and stay-at-home orders with many job losses, reduction in disposable income and economic hardships, and...
…as it prepares to redeploy staff The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has announced that its payment systems have fully gone digital as it runs some manual systems concurrently till the end of the year. The move is part of the GRA’s digitisation effort aimed at making it more convenient for...
Financial technology (FinTech) platforms are best placed to serve as the panacea to financial exclusion, particularly in underserved and excluded areas, Executive Director of eTranzact Ghana, George Babafemi has said. According to him, the reach and potential of fintech transcends that of all previous solutions combined and evidence of...
…as nationwide vaccination could take several years The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has cast doubt on the prospect of economic activities fully returning to normal shortly - citing probability of the country’s inability to achieve a nationwide roll-out of vaccines due to financial and logistical challenges. Even though Ghana was the...