The innate desire to expand and increase— even to touch lives and make a difference is a shared human instinct. As people, we are born to recognize needs, perceive opportunities, take chances and establish; to improve where we find ourselves and continuously work to create a world where the...
“No matter how full the river is, it still wants to grow.” – African proverb Right from our earliest age, many of us are taught a chorus that sounds like “tick, tick, tick the boxes”. We were sung a song that listed things we had to achieve when we grew...
Wilmar Africa Limited, producers of Frytol vegetable cooking oil, has launched a new campaign dubbed “you deserve to be well” as part of International Women’s Day celebration. The campaign is aimed at promoting wellness and good healthy living practices among women in the country as they are often found of...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has reiterated his government’s commitment to bringing the economy back to life by ensuring citizens get the best of health care - saying his administration is on course to deliver the largest-ever investment in the health sector with what he calls Agenda 111 and...
The Ministry of Health has in collaboration with Zoompak Ghana Limited, a subsidiary of Jospong Group of Companies (JGC), taken steps to properly dispose of medical waste from the ongoing Coronavirus vaccination Programme in the Ashanti Region. Speaking to journalists at the Suntreso Government Hospital in Kumasi in the Ashanti...
AIIM expands its digital infrastructure footprint with investment in carrier-neutral, co-location data centre via newly-incorporated Onix Data Centre platform African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM), one of the continent’s largest infrastructure-focused private equity fund managers, and Onix Data Centres (Onix DC) have acquired a majority stake in Ngoya Etix DC-Ghana - a carrier-neutral data centre with...
First National Bank Ghana, a member of the FirstRand Group of South Africa, has affirmed its support for the pharmaceutical industry in Ghana with a set of products which are intended to meet the credit needs of players in the sector. The bank’s response to needs of the industry is...
For the past two decades, Michael Ofori-Atta has been at the forefront of African diplomacy with one major focus: helping build on the post-colonial vision to grow Ghana’s importance in the African geopolitical space. Ofori-Atta is an industry professional in a field that straddles regional political dynamics and geopolitical understanding....
The year was 1886, when Carl Benz applied for a patent for his “vehicle, powered by a gas engine.” The patent – number 37435 – is in many ways regarded as the birth certificate of the automobile. The year was 1909, as the suffragette movement swept across most of the...
The government has announced its readiness to increase the country’s tertiary education enrolment to 40 per cent from 18.1 per cent, by the next 10 years. The new direction is planned to focus more on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) related fields, with emphasis on engineering, according to the...