The Ghana Ports and Habours Authority (GPHA) has waived all rent and related charges for transit cargo - goods bound for another country but discharged in Ghana - that overstayed at various transit yards due to challenges of the COVID-19 lockdown.
Several trucks with transit cargo that overstayed at GPHA...
The Chartered Institute of Marketing, Ghana (CIMG) has made a cash donation of GHS40,000.00 and quantities of Water, Hand Sanitizers and essential medications to the COVID-19 National Trust Fund.
This donation is in line with the Institute’s Corporate Social Responsibility and public advocacy programmes. The donation was made through the...
Biggest telecom service provider, MTN Ghana, has posted a 20.6 percent growth in revenue in the first quarter from GH¢1.2 billion in March, 2019 to GH¢1.44 billion in March, 2020.
According to the company’s unaudited first quarter financials, MTN withstood COVID-19 induced challenges to record the stellar performance.
“Voice growth was...
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...