I could feel the audience getting agitated. Their once quiet murmurs were becoming more audible with each passing minute. Standing before us was a speaker whose presentation was being sabotaged by technology, and understandably, she was getting exasperated. Her laptop was connected to the projector via a wireless HDMI transmitter...
The National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) has said that over 20,000 applicants who were supposed to benefit from the stimulus package under the Coronavirus Alleviation Programme (CAP) business support scheme were unable to receive their funds, due to their Mobile Money (MoMo) accounts facing some technical disparities. According...
Our major staple food, maize, is in short supply across the market centers in the country, causing price hikes. A bowl of maize in Juapong market was sold for GH¢9 as at January, 2020 but currently going for GH¢15. The situation has resulted in the lack of feed for the...
This year, GCB Bank is commemorating its 70th birthday, a landmark that only two other banks – neither of them indigenously owned - have reached. Indeed, GCB Bank is not only by far the biggest and oldest indigenous bank in Ghana; it is the largest bank as a whole...
Origin8 Limited and Tarika Group, Inc. (dba Tarika Technologies), a USA based Information Technology (IT) firm, have partnered to provide seamless digital solutions to businesses in Ghana and Africa. The partnership will see the two growing companies provide with unique abilities in Marketing & Technology join forces to provide a...
As a testament of its determination to support Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) to scale up and run profitable ventures, the Management of Ghana Exim Bank, GEXIM, on Tuesday 5th July 2022 received the African Union Small and Medium Scale Enterprise (AU SME) award for "The Best Market...
Stanbic Bank Ghana, a member of the Standard Bank Group – Africa’s largest bank by assets, on Friday, December 8 unveiled a new brand cloth at their end-of-year staff durbar, held at the Labadi Beach Hotel under the theme ‘This Is us. Our Life, our Story, our Home’. The new...
The attention of Management of the Ghana Revenue Authority has been drawn to media reports that appear to indicate that the Tema Collection of the Customs Division failed to meet its revenue target by 45% due to the deployment of the Integrated Customs Management System (ICUMS) at the Terna...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is to work in partnership with Zeal Environmental Technologies to help efficiently operationalise EPA’s established laboratory in Takoradi to serve the petroleum industry. “Zeal has the skill, knowledge and requisite machinery to deal with environmental protection issues - particularly in waste management as per oil...
The Cedi gained against the dollar, trading at 12.05 from 12.50 at last week’s close after Ghana’s central bank raised interest rates by less than forecast amid expectations that an emergency $3bn IMF loan deal will be finalised by the end of this quarter. The central bank hiked rates...