Zero Malaria Business Leadership Initiative supports global movement for malaria elimination in Africa Ecobank Group confirmed its commitment to support ending malaria, launching the first-of-its-kind Zero Malaria Business Leadership Initiative in partnership with Dakar-based not-for-profit strategic communications and advocacy organization, Speak Up Africa, and the UN-hosted RBM Partnership to End...
Appruve, a global tech company, is set to begin the publication of analytical reviews on onboarding financial service providers’ tech-based channels. Many financial services claim to adopt an omnichannel approach - but more often than not, the reality is that whether the user is being on-boarded via the website, mobile...
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), working in partnership with GIZ, has handed two mobile laboratory vans to the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research (KCCR) toward scaling-up testing of potential COVID-19 patients - particularly in ‘harder to reach’ communities. To support government’s commitment to stop and contain spread of the virus...
This year’s International Day of the African Child has been held in Tamale, the Northern Region capital, with a call on African heads of state to implement child-friendly laws in order to improve children’s access to justice. Despite the fact that child-rights have been recognised in many of African states, their implementation...
The Ghana Institution of Engineering (GhIE) has  inducted 44 senior engineers into the fold of the institution online via Zoom. The senior engineers who were inducted online included 10 Civil Engineers, 24 in the Mechanical/Agric/Marine Technical Division, five in the Chemical/Mining Technical Division and five in the Electrical/Electronic Technical Division. The...
Government attributed and commended the strong performance of Ghana Reinsurance Company to the Board, Management and Staff of the company at its 17th Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Accra last week. Ghana Re announced a group composite (life and general business) gross premium income for 2019 of GH¢253.37m compared to...
As part of efforts to increase cocoa productivity to over one million metric tonnes, the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has commenced a hand-pollination exercise across all production areas for the 2019/2020 season. COCOBOD has therefore increased recruited and trained youth for the human-induced cross-fertilisation programme from 20,000 in the previous...
The Vice President-Insurance Brokers Association of Ghana, Shaibu Ali, has indicated that the coronavirus pandemic has crippled the insurance brokerage industry - hitting the labour sector hardest in terms of job losses as a result of the absence of a contingency plan. According to him, the outbreak of COVID-19 has...
The Anglogold Ashanti Obuasi Mine has supported education supervisors in the Obuasi Municipality and Obuasi East district of the Ashanti Region with eight motorbikes, as part of efforts to contribute toward the improvement of local education. At the motorbikes’ presentation, the Managing Director of Anglogold Ashanti Obuasi Mine, Mr. Eric...
…urges players not to stop drug supply to NHIA The Ministry of Health has made a last-minute step to stop the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association of Ghana (PMAG) and the Chamber of Pharmacy Ghana (CPG) from halting their supply of drugs to health care facilities funded by the National Health Insurance Authority...

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