Pharst Care, a pharma healthcare startup, has won GH¢10,000 seed funding and six months incubation support at the technology and innovation competition, The OpEx Prize. Pharst Care is part of the final 10 winners of the maiden edition of the OpEx Prize (Opportunity Exposure Prize) Competition which seeks to unleash...
The Chartered Insurance Institute of Ghana (CIIG), at its Annual General Meeting (AGM) and educational conference held at the Rock City, Kwahu Nkwatia in the Eastern Region of Ghana, elected new executives for a two-year term, commencing January 1, 2023. Mr. Solomon Lartey, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Africa Sureties and...
Policy actions for the future of work African policymakers face a daunting challenge in designing skills strategies that support transformation goals while also producing a resilient, adaptable workforce for the future. These recommendations offer a path forward. Improving the quality of learning in general secondary education and technical and vocational education...
By: Kwadwo Acheampong Many of us think of the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) as just that: a stock exchange, a market for shares only. However, aside shares, fixed income securities like corporate bonds and Government of Ghana Treasury securities are also traded on the exchange. In fact, the volume of...
The Ministry of Education (MoE) has finally received clearance to employ over 22,000 personnel --both teaching and non-teaching staff-- after government put a ban on employment in the education sector in the last few years. “The ministry has received clearance to replace, recruit, reappoint and re-instate 22,802 personnel of different...
-              Enabling seamless transactions from one account to another anywhere in the world with end-to-end transparency and predictability -              Made available through a next-generation digital platform that maintains SWIFT’s hallmark focus on resiliency and security Global, member-owned cooperative, SWIFT, has announced that over the next two years and beyond it will...
Mobile Money Interoperability (MMI) has increased the total cumulative value of mobile transactions in Ghana to GH¢978 billion at the end of last year from GH¢78billion in 2017, Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has said. Speaking at the 2022 Annual National Internal Audit and Governance Conference, organized by the Institute...
Faustina Annan, a beneficiary of Vodafone Healthline, praised Vodafone for ending her nightmare by making it possible for her son to urinate and pass stool like any other person. In the Anaji Westline community of Takoradi in the Western Region, there were tears of joy and enormous sighs of relief...
Local assemblies which form the Greater Kumasi, of the Ashanti Region, have received some support to help fight COVID-19 in the city, as the second wave of pandemic threatens to disrupt economic activities and impede social life. The joint support, offered by the Association of Local Government of Netherlands (VNG)...
Following weeks of hard work and exuberance exhibited by 108 Junior and Senior High School students across the country in this year’s School Farm Competition, the programme came to an end with an award ceremony organised by Blue Skies with support from Kosmos Innovation Centre (KIC) on November 24,...