As schools across Ghana reopened for in-person learning early this year, the safety of pupils in the classroom became a major concern for parents and teachers. Personal hygiene, an essential health protocol for breaking the transmission of COVID-19, was a challenge for some schools in underserved communities as they...
A new report by the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) has shown that smallholder farmers in the country are increasingly facing challenges in reaching various markets to sell their products.
The report titled “Smallholder Farmer Voices in Policy Discourse” engaged 99 peasant farmers in eight regions across the country....
The Finance Ministry has moved to calm nerves over concerns about the country’s mounting debt situation - which has led to rating agency Fitch downgrading it - saying the rate of debt accumulation has improved.
Fitch Ratings on Friday, January 14 downgraded Ghana's Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has unveiled a 10-year Capital Market Master Plan which would serve as a blueprint for developing the market to better support economic growth of the country, especially at a time the country seeks to recover from the pandemic.
The Master Plan envisions to raise...
The U.S. Embassy in Accra and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have formally launched the U.S. State Department Bureau of African Affairs’ University Partnerships Initiative (UPI) at an in-person and virtual launch ceremony on the KNUST campus on Wednesday October 14, 2020.
The event was presided...
CIMG Telecommunications Company of the Year, Vodafone Ghana, has so far rewarded over 175,000 customers with cash prizes, data and talk-time in its recently launched Ɛɛkɔso promotion.
The unique campaign is open to all customers - who earn red coins when they recharge their airtime with scratchcards, via an electronic recharge or...
Yaa Amoako Adu, Chief Executive Officer of Integrity Logistics Company, has been awarded by African Leadership Magazine for leading with excellence in the oil and gas industry in Africa.
Her exceptional leadership in a male dominated industry and paving way for other women to aspire to greater heights caught the...
As Emergency National Refuse Evacuation exercise starts
The Northern Region Minister Salifu Saeed has given firm assurance that all aged refuse dump-sites in the region will be cleared.
Giving the assurance in an interview with the media at Nyohani South in the Tamale Metropolis, where the Emergency National Refuse Evacuation...
The Ada West District Assembly has recognised the contribution of Electrochem Ghana Limited to the development of Ada, in the Greater Accra Region, considering their increasing investment in the operational areas.
The Coordinating Director of the Assembly, Aaron Otoo, at a visit to Electrochem’s salt mining site, at Sege, noted...
The French Embassy in Ghana, in collaboration with non-governmental organisation ‘Noe’, has launched phase-II of the EconoBio project - an initiative that seeks to develop green value chains for the benefit of local populations living on the outskirts of biodiversity-rich areas.
The four-year project, which is worth €1.8million, is a...