Thirty-six companies and 12 outstanding individuals have been honoured at the second edition of the Ghana Business Standard Awards, organised by KN Unique Communications. The awards ceremony seeks to celebrate organisations committed to remarkable business standards in their sectors, and industry leaders breaking barriers of excellence across the Ghanaian business...
The bilateral trade volume of Ghana and China last year hit US$7.46billion, making China Ghana’s largest trading partner, the biggest source of foreign investment and the biggest provider of human resource training. Ghana now is the 7th-largest trading partner of China in Africa. Until 2019, more than 6,500 Ghanaian students...
The high cost of Marine Gas Oil (MGO) - representing as much as 70 percent of industrial and semi-industrial vessels operational cost - is pushing local vessels to patronise the product offshore, Simon Aggah, Acting President of National Fisheries Association of Ghana (NAFAG), has revealed. He explained that due to...
Airtel Networks Zambia Plc has partnered with Ericsson on a ‘Product Take-Back’ programme to minimize the potential environmental impact associated with the disposal of decommissioned electrical equipment. The Product Take-Back programme is part of Ericsson’s Sustainability efforts geared towards taking accountability for environmental impacts of all products and services during...
“One who borrows a cloth does not dance proudly.” – Nigerian proverb Growing up, we were taught to be honest and to “speak truth” in all situations, wherever we are. It is probably the reason many of us profess and actually insist we want to hear the truth. But what...
…T4SD Hub Ghana beneficiary SMEs reveal simple steps The coronavirus crisis is shaking the whole world, with devastating consequences on health and businesses. For many small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana, this has led to obvious internal cost-cutting measures such as a reduction in the frequency of travels, lay-offs, and...
An old Zen Buddhist saying cautions, “Do not mistake the finger pointing at the moon for the moon.” By focusing too much on the means, one can lose sight of the ends. A case in point is UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s ambitious £100 billion ($130 billion) “Operation Moonshot” to...
InfoSec Advisory with Del Aden Most organizations struggle to make actionable data available, let alone turn it into business value. Research suggests only 10% of business-relevant data is actually used for analytics.  This is because Business data can decay at a rate of over 40% per year, so your database...
It’s five years now, since the global community adopted the historic 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change. Among other things, it established a goal to limit average global temperature rise to well below 2˚ degrees Celsius, possibly keep it at 1.5 degrees Celsius. To reach this goal, countries had earlier documented...
The Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources (MSWR) has begun an emergency evacuation of heaps of refuse at illegal dumpsites at the Nkawie MA Primary School and others in the Atwima Nwabiagya Municipality in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region. However, the exercise at a third illegal dumpsite at Akrofrom near...