The Executive Chairman of Jospong Group of Companies (JGC), Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyepong, has stated that the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has allowed the private sector to innovatively use local resources to produce personal protective equipment (PPE) - including nose masks, hand sanitisers - to help contain spread of the...
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Inside the control room of the newly refurbished Kpong Hydroelectric Dam, engineers click on buttons on a computer screen to regulate the spillway gates of the dam. This is a departure from the situation years back, when controls were done manually.
The 160 MW Kpong dam,...
The Institute for Energy Security (IES) is demanding more details to the cause of the recent power outages experienced across the country.
The Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) in different press statements have attributed the power outages to a cut in supply of gas to power plants.
But in press release, IES...
The EU Ambassador to Ghana, Diana Acconcia, and her accompanying delegation visited the Bunge Loders Croklaan facility in Tema to get a better understanding of the shea business and learn more about the company’s activities in West-Africa.
During the visit, the Ambassador and her team took a tour of the...
Huawei has unveiled major upcoming updates for HarmonyOS 2.0, EMUI 11, HMS (Huawei Mobile Services), HUAWEI HiLink, and HUAWEI Research in its keynote speech at the Huawei Developer Conference 2020 held in Songshan lake, China.
These improvements they revealed will empower global developers and ecosystem partners to provide enhanced and...
Japan Motors Trading Company Ltd. (JMTC), has been honoured with the coveted Millennium Excellence Award as the Foreign Business of the decade.
At the just-ended Millennium Excellence Awards held in Kumasi, the Ashanti regional capital, Japan Motors Trading Company was conferred the coveted Millennium Excellence Award for Foreign Business of...
The Vodafone Ghana Foundation in conjunction with the Vodafone Business Unit has donated 200 brand-new laptops to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) to aid in the institutionalisation of blended teaching and learning methods across the school.
The donation forms part of a number of philanthropic activities...
The Rural and Community Banks, RCBs, after exhibiting resilience in their operations and battling it out during financial reforms still have a total of GH¢457.86 million locked up with investment companies that are regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Business & Financial Times has learnt.
At the beginning of...
If there is any significant intervention that has changed the financial sector and landscape over the last decade in Ghana, it is undoubtedly the emergence of mobile money. This has been made possible through the collaboration of Fintechs, Mobile Network Operators (MNO) and the Banks.
It`s an undeniable fact that,...
“We need banking but we don`t need banks anymore. Do you think someday we can open bank account or ask for loan without physically having to come to the bank?”
------Bill Gates
The novel corona virus (COVID-19) has seen banks accelerate their digital transformation plans, condensing them from 5yrs strategic plans...