In the fight against novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) has initiated a process to raise about GH¢60million to purchase personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline agriculture workers. The rationale is to support frontline agriculture workers, encompassing smallholder farmers, agriculture extension...
The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) has donated COVID-19 educational and sensitisation materials in Braille to the Ghana Blind Union (GBU), for use by persons with blindness. The items donated are worth over GH¢24,000 and included sensitisation braille materials to be distributed to all regions, Veronica buckets, nose-masks and...
GCB Bank Ltd. on Monday relocated its Madina branch to a new location just adjacent to the Madina Divisional Police Headquarters within the La Nkwantanang Municipal Area. The new premises have been designed to provide comfort and convenience to GCB customers, and offers all the GCB products and services including G-Money. During...
A maiden whistleblowing survey report by auditing firm KPMG has revealed that many public and private companies give little or no importance to setting up whistleblowing facilities to aid the company receive complaints of unethical activities among staff and management. According to the report, 59 percent of respondents said there...
The upcoming farming season will go ahead uninterrupted despite disruptions to the farm input supply chain, RMG Ghana Limited - a leading input provider - has assured. This follows launch of the firm’s GH¢100,000 COVID-19 Farmers' Support Programme and the acquisition of all needed inputs for the upcoming crop season...
The Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) has taken steps to help farmers boost coconut production for exports in the next five years, as the economy seeks to recover from ravages of the coronavirus pandemic. With regard to this, the authority has handed 160,000 coconut seedlings to the Coconut Famers Association...
Springfield E&P (SEP) and ENI Ghana Exploration Limited ( ENI) have been directed by  government to commence immediate talks on unitization of the Afina and Sankofa fields offshore Ghana (operated by SEP and ENI respectively). Based on technical evidence that the reservoir straddles both blocks, government directed in a letter...
Today, Afia Asantewaa Asare-Kyei, a human rights lawyer and Program Manager at the Open Society Initiative for West Africa from Ghana, Senegal and South Africa was appointed as Board Member to the newly created Oversight Board.  The Oversight Board will review certain content decisions by Facebook and Instagram and...
- opposes on board Social Distancing The International Air Transport Association (IATA) supports the wearing of face coverings for passengers and masks for crew while on board aircraft as a critical part of a layered approach to biosecurity to be implemented temporarily when people return to traveling by air. IATA...
To contribute to the alleviation of the socio-economic impact of restrictions associated with COVID-19 prevention, the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority has donated some food items to the traditional councils of Nungua, Tema and Kpone, for onward distribution to those in need within these communities. In view of the impact...