When telecommunication giant, Vodafone Ghana took over as the title sponsor of the Ghana Music Awards, observers as well as industry people were not sure how long the union would last. However, given that the union is in its 10th year, it is safe to say the mutual respect between...
Yaa Naa Andani Yakubu Abdulai has called for extensive investments to boost domestic tourism, arguing that the sector holds much promise for the nation’s post-pandemic recovery. Yaa Naa made the appeal when Dr. Mohammed Awal, Minister for Tourism, Creative Arts and Culture paid a courtesy call on him at his...
Unicorn Group (Unicorn), a pan-African investment company targeting innovative ideas, start-ups and early-stage companies in the technology and technology-enabled sectors across Africa, has launched its Unicorn Incubation Campus in Accra. The Accra campus follows the launch of the company’s incubation campuses in Lagos, San Francisco and Dallas, and is expected...
The lack of public sector accountability, coupled with the alarming rate of public sector corruption remains the primary challenge faced in efforts aimed at national development and there must be deliberate steps taken to reverse the trend, the Executive Director for the Media Foundation for West Africa, Sulemana Braimah,...
In line with its commitment to promote quality education in its host communities, AngloGold Ashanti Iduapriem Mine has inaugurated a two-unit two-bedroom and four-unit one-bedroom semi-detached teachers’ quarters for the Abompuniso Basic School. This initiative is to alleviate the plight of teachers who have to trek for long hours...
GIZ Ghana, through the Financial Systems Development (FSD) component of the Programme for Sustainable Economic Development (PSED), has donated digital equipment to the Ghana Cooperative Susu Collectors Association (GCSCA). The donation forms part of a strategy to equip industry players with tools that meet the demands brought about by the...
The Ghana Insurers Association (GIA), the trade association for all insurance companies licensed to operate in Ghana will join the rest of the world to celebrate this year’s “International Insurance Awareness Day” from Monday June 28. In line with this celebration, GIA intends to organize a webinar on the theme...
The Ghana Financial Intermediation (GFI) Awards has honoured the CEO and Group Chairman of the Afro-Arab Group of Companies, Alhaji Salamu Amadu, with a top personality award as an Outstanding Young Financial Intermediation CEO, at the maiden edition of the awards initiative. The award scheme, which was organized by the...
Absa Bank Ghana has announced a partnership with MoneyGram, a major reliable and trusted brand in the remittance industry, to provide remittance services to Ghanaians. Through the partnership, both customers and non-customers of Absa Bank can receive their inbound remittances from any of the bank's branch networks. Absa Bank's partnership...
Rather than seeing blockchain technology as an opposition, the banking industry needs to start exploring how it can incorporate it into their operations, said Kwame A.A. Opoku, Chief Executive at Reset Global People. Speaking at a conference organised by Republic Bank and the Business and Financial Times (B&FT) in Accra...