The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Hollard Group in Ghana, Patience E. Akyianu, has graced the latest edition of the Y Leaderboard Series aired on Ghana’s number one urban station, Y107.9, touching on her upbringing, education, career, family life and life values. With over 26 years’ experience in banking...
The two main political parties, the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the largest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have outdoored their respective manifestos, ahead of the December 2020 general elections. The manifestos are replete with a bevy of promises, on which the two parties have anchored...
Managing Director of Consolidated Bank Ghana (CBG), Daniel Wilson Addo, has said that his outlet has a smooth process in paying customers of defunct companies, and depositors who wish to withdraw their monies will go through a smooth process when they visit any branch of the bank with their...
Solidaridad, an international civil society organisation, has partnered the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) to promote high quality food safety standards among artisanal palm oil producers. The partnership is expected to enhance market access for workers in the palm oil value chain, as it will ensure that finished products meet...
The occurrence of the COVID pandemic may have turned a lot of things upside down. But on the bright side, it has revealed new possibilities by questioning existing structures and working cultures. One of such new structures is “working from home”. Before COVID-19, there were few companies that practised this...
The Malta High Commission in Accra yesterday, September 21, celebrated the 56th Independence Anniversary of Malta (Malta Day) with a firm commitment to facilitate more mutually beneficial exchanges between the peoples of Ghana and Malta. According to the Maltese High Commissioner to Ghana, His Excellency, Jean Claude Galea Mallia “Facilitating...
Industry, services contract Economist calls for inclusive policies to sustain growth It is the sector given the least support; it is the sector with the highest number of aging workforce; it is the one that is least attractive to the youth. But it is this same sector – agriculture –...
What does having a female president or vice president mean to the girl-child in Ghana? It means a lot. Generally, it means the same thing that the male presidents and vice presidents have meant and still mean to our boy-children: a role-model they can identify with through gender and physique, a...
…blames COVID-19 constraints on businesses The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) would be losing GH¢8 million, a quarter of its projected tax revenue of GH¢32 million for the year, due to the impact of the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) on businesses within the metropolis. The assembly, was expecting to use part of...
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has said it is taking steps to address the recent brouhaha and accusations regarding under-declaring of taxes among telecommunications companies in the country; saying it is working on forwarding letters to them in a move to retrieve the ‘lost’ monies. This comes after the Minister...