As part of its corporate social responsibility, the St John’s Hospital and Fertility Centre - a private health facility in Accra, has made a cheque donation of GH¢20,000 to the Sekyere East District Health Directorate in the Ashanti Region. The donation is in support of the fight against outbreak of...
PolyTank has through its mother company -Mohinani Group - donated 10pieces of 10,000 litre polytank (water tanks) to the COVID-19 Fund in Accra on Friday. The tanks were presented by the Mohinani team on behalf of management, noting that the donation is in aid to fighting against COVID 19 as...
The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has said it cannot make payment to contributors outside its monthly payments to qualified beneficiaries, as doing so would amount to violation of the National Pensions Act, 2008, Act 766. The Trust, in a statement reacting to comments by former President John...
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has said its doors are open for business, and is thus urging corporate organisations to fulfil their tax obligations and ensure government generates all the revenues it can to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah, Acting Commissioner General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA),...
The Suma Rural Bank Limited, headquartered at Suma-Ahankro in the Jaman North district of Bono Region, has joined the fight against coronavirus with a donation of assorted sanitary items to selected health facilities, police and some traditional councils within its catchment area. The sanitary items estimated at GH¢10,000 included Veronica...
Victor Asante, the Managing Director of FBNBank Ghana, believes that many of the changes caused by the global pandemic - especially to business operations and regulations - should become the new normal after Coronavirus pandemic. “Why would banking move back to the pre-coronavirus mode of operation when the potential for...
Introduction The Institute of ICT Professionals Ghana (IIPGH), an association of professionals in the information and communication technology (ICT) industry in Ghana, has been following with keen interest recent conversations on social media and mainstream media with regards to stories linking the new mobile telephony technology called 5G to the...
The novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19 has thrown the world into fear and changed our way is life, predictably, forever. Our conversations are now dominated by new catch vocabulary like “social distancing”, “lockdown”, “quarantine”, “remote working”, “working from home”, etc. As at the time of writing this piece, the...
Women in Engineering Ghana (WinE Ghana), a network of Ghanaian Women Engineering practitioners and student members within the Ghana Institution of Engineering (GhiE), has presented a proposal to re-engineer markets in the country for the COVID-19 period and beyond. The proposal was presented to the Minister of Sanitation and Water...
The Ghana Bankers Association has donated 72 hand-washing materials to the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital as part of efforts to fight the deadly coronavirus pandemic at the country’s premier health facility. The items include what has been termed Veronica buckets, metal stands, and washing sinks which can be directly...