In a drive to scale up agriculture exports, Director of Port -Tema, Sandra Opoku, is proposing more support for farmers, especially small holder ones with export potential to produce more for the export market. In 2019, the Port of Tema alone recorded a total exports figure of 2.5 million metric...
President Akufo-Addo paid a working visit to the central bank on Tuesday where Governor Dr Ernest Addision noted that financial sector clean-up has resulted in a stable financial sector with fewer banks and Specialized Deposit-Taking Institutions (SDIs) that are well capitalised, liquid, and solvent, and better able to support...
  Tuberculosis is the world’s leading infectious disease killer Successful development of a new tuberculosis vaccine will help reduce the disease burden on African countries and in particular in infants in high-risk HIV+ population European Investment Bank (EIB) provides €30 million loan to Vakzine Projekt Management, German subsidiary of...
Tourism has been one of the fastest-growing sectors in Ghana and around the world, due to the critical role it plays as a commercial activity that creates demand and growth for many more industries. It not only contributes toward more economic activities but also generates more employment, revenues -...
  The African Banker’s judging process sought to recognise the African banks that have demonstrated original and practical uses of technology to provide customer convenience The leading pan-African banking group, Ecobank has won the award for Innovation in Financial Services at the 2020 edition of the prestigious African Banker magazine Awards....
A survey commissioned by the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations has revealed that 11,657 jobs have been lost due to the effect of the Coronavirus pandemic on the operation of enterprises. According to the survey which covered 878 formal private sector establishments, the figure represented 31.5 percent of the...
In a bid to promote digital payments in this era of COVID-19, MTN MoMo has launched the ‘MoMo Pay & Win’ promotion to reward customers who make payments for goods and services through MoMo Merchant IDs and QR codes in the months of August and September. The points-based promotion gives...
The Ghana Shippers Authority (GSA) has presented items to the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital at Sekondi to assist in health care delivery. The items are bed sheets and gallons of liquid soap and that this is part of GSA’s corporate social responsibility. Charles Darling Asiedu Sey, Western and Central Regions...
First National Bank Ghana has donated some PPE and cleaning materials to the Danfa and Shai Osudoku District Hospitals, two health facilities in the Greater Accra Region. The donations form part of the bank’s interventions under its ASPIRE (Accelerated Support for Pandemic Intervention Relief Effort) initiative to support frontline health...
The Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) has officially handed over 28.3 hectares of cocoa seed garden automated drip irrigation schemes to the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD). MEDA, an international economic development organisation whose mission is to create business solutions to eradicate poverty, is implementing the Farmers' Economic Advancement Through Seedlings...