Two students at NIIT Ghana, Augustine Danso and Bentil Shadrack, have developed an application to aid in the fight against COVID-19. The application is a self-diagnosis question screener for those experiencing any COVID-19 symptoms. The app then providers the user with advice on what to do next.
According to the...
MTN Ghana is set to pay a total of GH¢368.7 million to shareholders in interim dividend for the first quarter of 2020.
In its unaudited first quarter financial statement, MTN declared a profit after tax of GH¢349.7million as at March 2020, a 62.1 percent increment from GH¢215.8 million in March,...
Abosso Goldfields Limited (Damang mine), a subsidiary of Gold Fields Ghana, has donated personal protective equipment (PPE) to the Prestea Huni-Valley Municipal Assembly at Bogoso to support the fight against Covid-19 in the mine’s host communities.
The PPEs include 21,420 pairs of gloves, 11,240 N95 and surgical face masks, 16,424...
The contractor of the University of Ghana Hospital project, EDC Engineering and Construction Limited based in Israel has donated GH¢100,000 to the COVID 19 Trust Fund.
Ms Elizabeth Ayim who made the presentation on behalf of the company said the donation was part of the Company’s corporate social responsibility.
According to...
Politicians must refrain from politicising the country’s fight against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that is ravaging countries across the globe, Professor J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, President of the Trinity Theological Seminary (TTS), Legon, has cautioned.
Speaking to a cross-section of journalists during a disinfection and fumigation exercise by the Vector...
Last week Saturday, 25th April, while Portugal was celebrating 1974’s peaceful revolution, the Portuguese community in Ghana -both companies and individuals, spent the full day donating alcohol-based hand sanitizers and bottled water to the Ghana Police Service.
This community in Ghana, having close to 200 registered nationals, was able to...
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), has said the commencement and deployment of the Integrated Customs Management System (ICUMS) at all frontier stations and ports of entry in Ghana take effect from today, Tuesday April 28, 2020.
This is in line with the implementation plan for the eventual roll-out of ICUMS...
Fast growth in e-commerce sales to consumers and cross-border purchases
More than 1.4 billion people shopped online in 2018
US, China and UK dominate e-commerce sales to consumers
E-commerce sales hit $25.6 trillion globally in 2018, up 8% from 2017, according to the latest available estimates released today by...
A high-powered delegation from the Ghana EXIM Bank, one of the major funding banks of the government’s flagship programme, One-district, One-factory (1D1F), has paid a working visit to three pharmaceutical companies in the Greater Accra Region who have received funding from the bank to invest into their operations.
The team,...
The impacts of the current crisis are wide and affecting both Africa’s most promising exploration prospects, but also its multi-billion-dollar landmark projects.
The double crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic and the collapse in oil prices is taking a toll on African economies and the African energy industry. An unstable and...