Eight entrepreneurs from across sub-Saharan Africa, including Young at Heart Ghana’s Josephine Marie Godwyll, have been awarded funding to harness the engineering and business skills of their organisations to help tackle the spread of COVID-19.
With UK government funding through the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Project...
Newmont Ghana’s Akyem Mine has donated GH¢166,000 worth of medical supplies to the New Abirem Government Hospital and Birim Central Municipal Health Directorate to support COVID-19 relief efforts in the mine’s host communities and region.
The donation included Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), personal hygiene items, and hospital equipment and consumables....
Construction works on an Air Conditioning Test facility and a laboratory for the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) will commence at the beginning of this month.
The test facility will ensure that electrical appliances meet minimum efficiency performance standards.
It will be equipped with a Balanced Ambient Room Calorimeter Test Chamber for...
Industrial gold output from Ghana, Africa’s top producer of the precious metal, increased 6% in 2019 from the previous year while small-scale gold production dropped 20%, the Chamber of Mines said in its annual general meeting on Friday.
Industrial mines produced 2.989 million ounces of gold in 2019, up from...
MainOne has commenced construction activities on its planned MDXi Ghana Data Center project at the Appolonia City enclave in Accra, the premier connectivity and data center solution provider said in a statement.
This follows a thorough and transparent vendors selection process, as well as extensive design review of the planned...
A total of 300,000 improved cashew seedlings are expected to be distributed freely to thousands of farmers in the Dormaa East District of the Bono Region by the end of 2020.
The exercise forms part of the implementation of government’s flagship programme ‘Planting for Export and Rural Development’ (PERD) which...
Prudential Bank Limited has appointed Mrs. Muriel Susan Edusei as its new Board Chairperson. Her appointment took effect on April 29, 2020 following an earlier approval by the Bank of Ghana.
Mrs. Edusei’s appointment follows the retirement of Mr. Kwaku Agyei-Gyamfi after twelve (12) years of outstanding leadership. A statement issued...
Bankers from Sub Saharan Africa and China who attended the Huawei Sub-Saharan Africa Financial Services Industry Online Summit 2020 agree that digitisation of the sector will give it resilience against the current COVID-19 pandemic and enable sustained growth in the post COVID era.
The pan-African conference themed “Accelerating Digital Transformation,...
Chamber of Mines advocates
A waiver of Value Added Tax (VAT) on big ticket cost items such as drilling and laboratory services will consolidate the contribution of the mining sector to the economy, as well as, cement the country’s prestigious position as Africa’s top gold producer, the Chamber...
CalBank has donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), valued at GH¢230,000, to four major hospitals across the country to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
The beneficiary hospitals are the University of Ghana Medical Centre in the Greater Accra Region, the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in the Ashanti Region, the Effia Nkwanta...