Tourism is such an important industry in Africa, because of the direct and indirect jobs that it creates and sustains, as well as its strong foreign currency earnings
African hotel development had returned to growth at the start of 2020, with more than 78,000 rooms in 408 hotels in the...
MainOne, West Africa’s leading provider of Wholesale and Enterprise connectivity and data center services celebrates 10 years of delivering innovative, world-class service in West Africa. Ten years ago, the company launched its operations with the inauguration of the first private submarine cable on the West Coast of Africa.
The company...
The National Teaching Council (NTC) in collaboration with the Girl Child Education Unit of GES and support from UNICEF Ghana, is organising a refresher capacity building programme to equip teachers with relevant skills ahead of the implementation of Better Life for Girls (BL4G) project
The Better Life for Girls (BL4G)...
The Northern Command of the Ghana Armed Forces has been disinfected against the deadly Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease by Zoomlion Ghana.
The exercise which would also take place in the military barracks across the region forms part of the company’s corporate social responsibility is to ensure the safety of the security personnel,...
The final article in the “BOG MPC AND DEFICIT FINANCING” series calls on Parliament to re-examine the revised 2020 Budget and COVID-19 fiscal gaps that it approved to mitigate the effects of the pandemic. The areas to examine include (a) the use of “offsets” to show a lower fiscal...
The African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) will host International Monetary Fund (IMF) African Department Director Abebe Aemro Selassie at a webinar on Tuesday, July 7 to discuss policy actions for Africa’s economic rebound in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Zoom event, “Priorities for Africa’s Recovery, Growth, and...
Ghanaian cocoa farmer cooperative, Kuapa Kooko, has lost 80 percent of its majority shares in British chocolate brand, Divine Chocolate, to a strategic investor. Kuapa Kooko Cooperative, which hitherto owned 45% majority shares in the company, would now hold only 20% ownership as Divine Chocolate Limited is sold to a...
The pioneering initiative to train the next generation of cocoa farmers, is expected to bring a significant contribution to the country’s cocoa production, as a total of over 12,000 youth have been trained to venture into cocoa farming and its related businesses, by the MASO programme, being undertaken by...
Professor Kwame Adom-Frimpong, President, Institute of Chartered Accountants Ghana (ICAG) and MD, Mainstream Reinsurance Company, has reiterated that integrity is an important fundamental element in the accounting profession. Integrity requires accountants to be honest, candid and forthright with a client's financial information.
He said Accountants should restrict themselves from personal...
Over 692,000 young people in the country are set to benefit from the COVID-19 Recovery and Resilience Programme (CoRe) which has been launched by the Springboard Road Show in partnership with the MasterCard Foundation and Solidaridad.
The programme, which seeks to support young people in the country in the wake...