The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has launched an innovative Digital Retail Fuel Monitoring System developed by the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) in Accra.
Launching the programme in Accra yesterday Dr Bawumia commended the NPA for leveraging on the government's digitization drive to create an innovative solution to a major...
Ghana-Turkey diplomatic relations actually date back to a few years after independence. However, the relations weren’t very active till about a decade ago. Over that period the relations have blossomed greatly on all levels. The strong growth of economic activity between the two countries over the years is testament...
In recent months, there has been the resurgence of the publicly reviled idea of mobile money taxation. Proponents of the tax believe that Telco’s are making such astronomical profit that its almost sinful and morally wrong for the state not to partake of this profit.
Opponents of the tax are...
“Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of ‘green’ as a verb, not an adjective.”
------Daniel Goleman, PhD., Science Journalist & Author
Origins
Policy makers, in the last decade, have put a lot of effort into enhancing green financing with the main purpose of achieving economic growth...
… sees profit grow 341% in 2020
In what was a most unusual year - one that saw businesses across various sectors crumble under the weight of adverse economic strain brought about by the ongoing pandemic - the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) has proven extremely resilient, posting a profit after...
…be intentional about your customer engagement
Aiming to be customer-centric is worthwhile if you intend to stay the course and excel as a business. This will require some deliberate planning and interventions which ensure that you have a good listening ear for your customers. By investing heavily in Voice of...
… offenders to be severely sanctioned
All financial institutions, especially commercial banks, in the country are being investigated over money transfer breaches by the central bank, Philip Danso, Chief Manager at the Bank of Ghana’s Banking Supervision Department has said.
According to him, a very comprehensive work is being embarked...
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), has cautioned the consumers of salted fish, popularly called ‘Kako’, to suspend its consumption for a while as it may be contaminated.
Abu Sumaila, Head of the FDA in the Western Region, explained to the B&FT in an interview that it is alleged an...
The current power outages largely result from the country’s failure to upgrade transmission infrastructure and improve revenue collection and management, the Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) has said.
Although ACEP described the distribution sector as the most significant segment of the power sector value chain for financial sustainability of...
Hits more than GH¢1bn in value
Regular mobile money platform also records GH¢67bn in value
The country’s largest cross-network payment platform - mobile money interoperability - has seen a record significant jump in transactional value in the very year the first case of the deadly coronavirus pandemic was recorded...