As the world marks International Literacy Day, Standard Chartered Bank Ghana Limited has launched a virtual reading project under its Employee Volunteering programme that engages their staff to read to underprivileged children remotely. As COVID-19 continues to disrupt learning in unprecedented ways, and with schools currently closed, the move to...
EIB Network's youth and music-heavy station Live91.9FM has made a full switch to a new digital offering LiveXtra. The new streaming platform available on android, web and soon on IOS, seeks to serve Ghana’s vibrant music culture via live radio, music, and podcasts among other offerings. The new app serves unique...
During the heat of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana, Abeiku Aggrey Santana and his partner Derrick Cobbinah, Africa's Project Officer for the Royal Commonwealth Ex-Services League and CEO of Forces Help Africa and GUBA Foundation, supported and brought to light the activities of WWII veteran Joseph Hammond - who recorded a...
Absa Bank Ghana has reiterated the need to increase investment in for startups, particularly fintechs operating in the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) sector. The bank is targeting about 5,000 SMEs in the next 5 years to build their capacity to make them global giants. This is expected to create about...
It was just euphoric when the final bell rang for the end of the preliminary contest of the biggest academic competition in the country, the National Maths and Science Quiz (NSMQ), in the Western Zone. Contestants representing the Tarkwa Senior High School stood 'shoulder-higher,' after recording a final score of...
As part of its commitment to supporting education as a key enabler of development, telecom operator AirtelTigo is supporting this year’s National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ) - the biggest academic competition in the country. As a key partner, AirtelTigo and Primetime Limited - the competition’s organisers - will introduce...
The US Ambassador to Ghana, Stephanie S. Sullivan, has entreated journalists to continue rallying behind efforts to improve the lives of People Living with HIV (PLHIV), on the back of the ongoing campaign toward achieving the UNAIDS’ FastTrack 95-95-95 goal. This campaign aims for 95 percent of the people living...
The Citizen Watch Ghana has waded into the GHC2million earmarked for Ghana’s celebrities to help drive the Made In Ghana Campaign as woefully inadequate compared to the standard practice in the industry. According to a statement issued in Accra and signed by Francis Mensah, the Convener of the Group, advertising...
Africa’s emerging agripreneurs call for increased SME-to-SME cooperation at Bank-organized food systems webinar attached to the African Green Revolution Forum A panel of some of Africa’s most promising small and medium enterprise (SME) agripreneurs gathered online to call for more selective investment, accelerated business acquisitions and increased cooperation to help...
Federated Commodities, in partnership with Beyond the Beans Foundation, has rolled out sustainable programmes which seek to encourage cocoa farmers in parts of the Eastern Region to produce more - despite the coronavirus pandemic inclining prices on the international market to fall. In February this year, the cocoa price per...