Every year, the World Economic Forum publishes a Global Risks Report, which distills the views of experts and policymakers from around the world. This year, cybersecurity is high on the list of global concerns, as well it should be. In 2017, the world witnessed a continued escalation in cyber attacks...
Government is to establish a body to absorb all the supervisory roles played by ministries, the State Enterprises Commission (SEC) and other government agencies over State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) as part of measures to avoid fragmentation and to promote efficiency, President Nana Akufo-Addo has said.
The President, in a speech read...
As the country’s economy recorded impressive growth of 8.5 percent in 2017, the highest ever in five years, the sector that has been touted as the economy’s backbone—agriculture—continues to see its contribution to GDP decline.
The sector’s contribution to GDP in 2017 dropped from the 18.9 percent recorded in 2016...
Expo 2020 Dubai and leading global food and beverage company PepsiCo have joined forces, with a shared vision of working together toward a healthier and more sustainable future in the lead-up to, during and beyond the next World Expo in 2020.
At the signing ceremony today at the Expo 2020...
Fund keeps forecast unchanged but warns world growth will slow
‘First shots’ fired in potential trade war, Obstfeld says
The International Monetary Fund predicted the world economy’s strongest upswing since 2011 will continue for the next two years but warned the seeds of its demise may have already been...
The Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme (TEN) partners have introduced the Community-led Environment and Beach Improvement and School Sanitation (CLEBISS) project in a bid to curb the rampant pollution of the environment.
An Ellen MacArthur Foundation report notes that the ocean is filled with about 165 million tons of plastic and by the 2050,...
The HR Focus Magazine in partnership with MTN Ghana has launched this year’s HR Focus Business Challenge under a new name dubbed the MTN Pulse Business Challenge in Accra.
The Business Challenge is a competition that seeks to unearth the entrepreneurial strengths of students and jobseekers, while building their confidence....
Accra Brewery Limited (ABL), a subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABInBev), the world’s leading brewer, has rewarded Madina Salihu of the University of Ghana’s Food Process Engineering Department for emerging as the Department’s best graduating student for the 2016/2017 academic year.
Madina Salihu, during the ceremony held at the University of...
Former workers of the defunct UT and Capital Banks have made an appeal to the central bank to ensure that their exit package, as agreed between UNICOF and the Receiver (PwC), is paid.
The Bank of Ghana revoked the two banks’ licences due to severe impairment of capital on August...