The Ministry of Communications through the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), an agency with the mandate to coordinate Ghana’s cybersecurity development, will hold its annual National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) from October 1 to 31, 2020.
The month-long event will be conducted in a hybrid format comprising physical engagements (under strict COVID-19 protocols) and the use of virtual platforms including...
Leading African challenger fintech into cross border payments extends Visa payment solutions and credentials to simplify cross border remittances
Zeepay, a fast-growing African fintech, has announced a partnership with Visa that will allow Africans in the diaspora to send money directly onto Visa debit and prepaid cards in Ghana.
Through...
Qatar Airways has arrived in Ghana and plans to operate four weekly flights to Accra via Lagos, becoming the fourth new destination launched by the national carrier of the State of Qatar since the start of the pandemic.
The Accra service will be operated by the airline’s state-of-the-art Boeing 787...
The establishment of the Tree Crop Development Authourity (TCDA), in line with the government efforts to formalize the tree crop sector, as well as ensuring a reliable price mechanism within the sector and others, is estimated to turn over some $14 billion annually.
According to the President, Nana Addo Dankwa...
In recognition of the challenges experienced by most businesses and the rapid reforms in the Ghanaian banking sector specifically, Dominic Adu, the CEO of First National Bank Ghana has shared some insights on how to positively adapt to the new changes to banking service delivery, relevant to the needs...
The 2020 African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) has been held in Kigali, Rwanda under the theme, “Feed the Cities, Grow the Continent: Leveraging Urban Food Markets to Achieve Sustainable Food Systems in Africa.”
It was co-hosted by the AGRF Partners Group and the Government of Rwanda, under the leadership of...
By this time every player in the insurance industry is asking how the covid 19 has affected customer buying behavior!
This article is aimed at looking at the changes in customer behavior and whether that is causing a fundamental shift in the insurance distribution model in the Ghanaian Insurance space...
Ghana’s efforts to build a self-reliant economy, the country’s digitization drive and the sectors of the economy ripe for investment are among the topical issues explored by Mahamudu Bawumia, the Vice-President said , in an in-depth video interview (vidcast) he gave to Oxford Business Group (OBG)’s Souhir Mzali, the...
The Deputy Director of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-Crops Research Institute (CSIR-CRI), Prof. Mrs. Marian Quain, has rekindled the call for the adoption of genetically modified (GM) crops to brighten the agenda of agricultural transformation to drive economic growth and development.
She observed that with the rising agricultural...
The discovery of oil in the last decade has presented an immutable opportunity in boosting Ghana’s economic growth. However, it has led to encountering some puzzling consequences into its resource exploitation.
For instance, in the upstream oil and gas value chain, every local and foreign entity carrying out operations has...