Vodafone Foundation has donated Personal Protective Equipment’s (PPE) to the La Dade-Kotopon Municipal Assembly (LaDMA) in line with its commitment to help the country combat the global pandemic.
The donation was in response to a call made by the Assembly to support its on-going COVID-19 awareness campaign, which includes the...
In response to COVID-19, the Chartered Institute of Bankers, Ghana, which promotes the study of banking and regulates the banking profession's practice in the country, has unveiled a suite of virtual programmes to continue training banking professionals.
The virtual programmes take the form of online classes for all student members...
The Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications has donated assorted items to the Lepers Aid Committee (LAC) to support Leprosaria in Ho, and the group of cured lepers in and around Wa, as part of the mobile industry’s effort to support the national fight against the coronavirus disease.
LAC is a non-governmental...
Standard Chartered Bank, in collaboration with mPharma, has presented portable Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) equipment as well as diagnostic extraction kits and tubes to the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), to aid the mass testing of COVID-19 cases in Ghana.
The donation is part of a...
Abiola Bawuah, founder of The Abiola Bawuah Foundation (ABF), has been nominated for the Women Empowerment category of the 2020 Millennium Excellence Awards. This comes as a result of her outstanding support for women empowerment by empowering girls, especially in the rural communities.
Currently, over 70 girls in the Ashanti,...
Kona Agro Processing Limited, an indigenous cashew processing company at Awisa near Wenchi in the Bono Region, has entered into a joint venture with Australian Dried Fruits and the Nuts Trading entity to scale up cashew processing in the country.
The transaction involves establishing a new 10,000 metric tonne (MT)...
International impact investor Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P) has said it is looking forward to supporting more small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) that are vital to Ghana’s long-term economic growth. The firm has invested €3million in a leading private healthcare provider, New Crystal Health Services (NCHS), to make quality...
First National Bank Ghana has activated its Accelerated Support for Pandemic Intervention and Relief Effort (ASPIRE) programme to assist the government and people of Ghana in their fight against COVID-19. With the initiative, First National Bank Ghana is supporting local entrepreneurs to produce high quality Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)...
For the first time in three years, the countries fishing sector has shown signs of a promising future as figures from the Ghana Statistical Service indicate it has finally recorded growth after a period of contraction.
The fishing sector has been in abysmal form since 2017, when growth contracted to...
Egg glut pushes farmers to slash price by 20%
500,000 crates of eggs set to go bad
Farmers ready to lay-off workers
One Day, One Egg campaign unveiled
Poultry farmers are pushing government to take a bold decision to regulate the importation of frozen and other finished poultry...