This week’s B&FT’s Inspiring Startups features a young couple who are using the Moringa plant to promote healthy living in his community and beyond. Beyond that, they have employed the use of technology that naturally restores lost nutrients to the soil to support plant growth. Read how it all...
With barely four months in operation, G-Money - Ghana’s first bank-led mobile money service - has overtaken all its competitors to become the mobile money service with the best rates in the industry. Following a comparative analysis of rates between G-Money and the three other mobile money service providers in...
Language barrier can be frustrating for patients and health professionals during healthcare delivery. Clear correspondence is basic to delivering excellent healthcare. The results could be disastrous, if medical information gets lost in translation when patients are describing their symptoms or when doctors explain treatment procedures. Vodafone Foundation through its Healthline...
Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is a global health problem affecting millions of people around the world. It is estimated that more than 300,000,000 individuals worldwide have sickle cell trait (AS), the benign carrier condition. More than 500,000 infants are born with major haemoglobin disorders inclusive of more than 400,000...
Nestlé Ghana is rewarding loyal consumers of Ideal Milk with cars and home appliances as part of its ‘Twi na Winni’ promo. A total of 135 consumers will win prizes ranging from cars to electrical appliances across the Southern, Middle, Northern, Eastern and Western belts - aside from mobile credit...
 Almost six months into the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the world is still struggling to deal with the economic cracks and imbalances created by the emergence of COVID-19.   The virus has exposed the non-resilience or otherwise of economies across the globe. Indeed, the world’s most powerful economies...
The Ghana Veterinary Medical Technicians Association of Ghana (VEMTAG) has called for an immediate review and harmonisation of the Veterinary legislation for effective Veterinary governance in the country. VEMTAG explained that with provisions of the Public Health Act most of the activities supposed to be carried out by the veterinary...
Prudential Bank Limited has supported the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR) with GH¢100,000 as part of the bank’s ongoing support for the fight against COVID-19. The NMIMR is the leading institution in Ghana mandated to carry out testing, contact tracing and diagnostic confirmation of COVID-19. At a short ceremony...
Leading food and agri-business company Olam Ghana has partnered with Mitsubishi Corporation to donate hygiene supplies and deliver sensitisation to cashew farming communities in support of national efforts against COVID-19. Specifically targetting farmers and their families in the cashew growing communities of the Bono and Bono East Regions of Ghana,...
Although crude production in 2019 went up 15 percent from 62,135,435.07 barrels in 2018 to 71,439,585 barrels, revenue accrued to the Petroleum Holding Fund (PHF) however dropped by some 5 percent within the same period. The revenue went down to US$925million in 2019 from US$977million in 2018 from Royalties, Carried...