Global Media Alliance Broadcasting Company (GMABC), has launched its election coverage, action plan and team for the general elections later this year, dubbed ‘GMABC Election Camp’.
The launch took place earlier this week at the e.TV Ghana studios, and was used to outdoor the working logo for this year’s coverage...
A total of 23,118 Senior High School candidates from three regions - Northern, Savannah and North East - have registered to sit the 2020 West African Examination Council (WAEC) test.
Out of the number, 14,805 are from the Northern Region; 4,407 from Savannah; and the remaining 3,906 from the North...
Entrepreneurs are born in many ways. Some say they got their business ideas in a dream. Others say they got it from observing a problem; and others say through their upbringing they developed entrepreneurial instincts. This week in B&FT’s Inspiring Startups, we talk to a young man whose interest...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s global finance expertise would serve the WTO well given the nexus between trade and finance.
The next director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) will replace Brazilian Roberto de Azevedo, who has served since 2013 and plans to step down at the end of August, a year before...
Home Automation on The Rise
Integrated home automation is rapidly moving out of the shadows of luxury and entering the mainstream of society, to become the new normal for Ghanaian homes. We live in a time like no other: as more and more systems in our homes become integrated, tenants/homeowners are...
The Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana)’s Afrobarometer Round 8 survey has shown that television and radio platforms are better than online options for teaching and learning students across the country during the COVID-19 induced closedown of schools.
Exposing the lack of access to devices, the Internet, and reliable electricity in...
The Northern Electricity Distribution Company (NEDCo) of the Volta River Authority (VRA) has clamped down on some hospitality operators and landlords for engaging in illegal power connections in the Northern and Savannah Regions.
The exercise, undertaken by a team of NEDCo staff, found a good number of power consumers in...
The discovery of oil has often not only triggered jubilation rather but also igniting optimism for economic development in developing countries. In developing countries, where oil is produced, most of these countries are known to be oil-reliant countries. Being an oil-reliant economy indicates that oil is considered a significant...
The volume of Mobile Money Interoperability (MMI) transactions shot up by over 444 percent in the first half of this year compared to the same period last year. This is contained in the Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems (GhIPSS) Half-Year Performance report.
According to the report, MMI transactions from...
Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta is scheduled to present the 2020 Mid-Year budget on 23rd July, 2020 in accordance with Article 179 of the 1992 Constitution and the Public Financial Management Act 921. The 2020 budget is themed ‘Consolidating the Gains for Growth, Jobs and Prosperity for all’, with the...