The Food Sovereignty Platform (FSP), a group of Civil Society Organisations, is calling for withdrawal of the Plant Variety Protection bill, 2020 -currently before parliament.
According to the group, the bill is the same as the Plant Breeders bill that sought to promote the production of genetically modified organisms -...
“A clear conscience fears no accusation.” – African proverb
Democracy first emerged when the Athenians, dissatisfied with the governments of aristocracy and tyranny, demanded and actually ensured the institution of a better system. History has it that Pericles, the philosopher, championed this cause. His belief that all citizens (which only...
We must do what we can to encourage it
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, not all of the economic news in Africa has been negative. We continue to see promising developments.
Look at Uganda’s oil and gas industry. Following multiple petroleum discoveries in Uganda’s Albertine Graben, foreign investments there have reached nearly...
The Ghana Exports Promotion Authority (GEPA), through its flagship project the National Export Development Strategy (NEDS), has outlined plans to boost cashew exports by as much as 320 percent from its current earnings to the country.
Currently, the crop is the second-largest contributor to non-traditional exports with earnings of US$237.8million...
In its quest to surmount negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and continue to serve customers better, Otuasekan Rural Bank Limited at Kofiase in the Sekyere West district of Ashanti Region has introduced mobile banking services whereby customers can transfer money from their bank accounts onto their mobile phones...
Executive Secretary of the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC), Mami Dufie Ofori, has been adjudged the Female Energy Personality of the Year for 2020 at the 4th Ghana Energy Awards (GEA) which came off in Accra recently.
Other personalities nominated for the Female Energy Personality of the Year were Ing....
The North East became the 15th region to benefit from government’s ongoing policy of constructing integrated recycling compost plants in the country’s 16 regions.
The policy, which is a collaboration between government and Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL) and its partner, Komptech, is aimed at achieving the clean Ghana agenda.
The Regional...
Zeepay (myzeepay.com), a fast-growing fintech into Mobile Financial Services across Africa, has announced its partnership with Transfast - a Mastercard company and leading cross-border payments service provider.
This partnership will enable consumers around the world to send money directly to more than 20 million mobile money wallets in Ghana, with...
… as risk mitigation measures improve
Commercial banks are ready to pump more funds into the agriculture sector if additional measures are introduced to de-risk the sector, the Head of Agribusiness at Absa Bank, William Nettey, has said.
According to him, the nature of banking makes every institution hesitant to...
Strategic Sourcing and Industrialisation insights with Prof Douglas Boateng
While the terms ‘Made in Ghana, or South Africa or Kenya or Nigeria’ have become common components of goods and services produced on the continent, a broader focus on ‘Made in Africa’ may be the key to long-term business success and...