Ghana’s leading software training school, Codetrain is opening its doors to everyone all around the world. In keeping with the fast-evolving nature of education delivery, Codetrain now offers a completely virtual program open to applicants the world over. Finally, anybody anywhere can access the Codetrain experience. The tech start-try up...
COVID-19 infections in Africa today surpassed 500,000, and there is concern as a growing number of countries are experiencing a sharp rise in cases. So far, in less than five months, the virus has claimed 11,959 lives, overtaking the 11,308 lives lost in the world’s worst Ebola outbreak in West Africa...
In the wake of COVID-19, Consolidated Bank Ghana has reached out to the Potter’s Village Orphanage in Dodowa, Accra with food items including bags of rice, boxes of tin tomatoes, cooking oil, bags of gari, bags of sugar, boxes of tuna flakes, and boxes of biscuits. The donation is in...
The major goal of every insurance company is to be in a state of readiness to meet its liabilities in respect of the uncertain events insured. However, the events which have taken place in the past few months are clear indications that perhaps a number of insurance companies were...
“There is no virgin in a maternity ward.” – Cameroonian proverb Are you a patriot or a pirate? Growing up, our society sought to incubate a sense of patriotism in us; so that we would grow up to love our nation. It was more of a ‘civic religion’, wherein the...
Capemay Properties Limited, a luxury real-estate development company in Accra, Ghana, has launched its ‘Home at Home’ campaign to invite diasporans and foreign nationals with business interest in Ghana to invest in the motherland Ghana. A home is wherever you have a connection to - be it by birth,...
African sovereigns’ border closures and broader lockdown measures have significantly slowed small-scale trade across Africa, a crucial source of income and employment on the continent Recovery will be slow and there is a risk of longer-term scarring from the crisis Falling revenues from economic slowdown, spending on measures,...
Samuel has been a cocoa farmer for 12 years. Since the end of the Akuafo cheque system, he had always been paid in cash for his cocoa, until last season. That was when the licensed buying company (LBC) that he sells to introduced a new system for purchasing cocoa....
Ghanaian pilot Eric Acquah started a drone company in 2017 to spray crops with pesticides, but when coronavirus hit the West African country he found a new mission - saving lives. The company has used 20 drones to disinfect about 38 open-air markets in Ghana, spraying a couple of acres...
MTN has waived charges on the official programme website of the COVID-19 Recovery and Resilience (CoRe) programme, www.core.com.gh. This means users of the website will not pay any data charges while browsing all aspects of the platform. The COVID-19 Recovery and Resilience (CoRe) programme was launched recently, and is an...