The President of Group Ideal, Nii Kotei Dzani, has said chiefs and politicians should not be encouraged to meddle in the administrative affairs of Rural and Community Banks in the country. According to him, such interferences affect the sector’s effectiveness and efficiency of operations, and hinders growth of the...
Government is to set up a new national development bank to “mobilise private capital toward agricultural and industrial transformation”, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta revealed in the 2018 Budget and Economic Policy of Government presented to Parliament yesterday.
“To achieve an efficient financial sector with innovative and long-term financing instruments to...
The management and staff of Vivo Energy Ghana have embarked on its annual Shell Customer Contact Day to thank customers for their loyalty and patronage with a number of giveaways and to solicit their feedback.
This year’s Customer Contact Day was created under the theme ‘Winning with customers through continuous...
As the sensitisation on biotechnology as another option for enhancing agricultural productivity gains ground among Ghanaian farmers, scientists are faced with one problem – how to immediately meet the growing demand for seeds.
In various sensitisation workshops on biotechnology-related issues that have been held recently with mixed stakeholders in many...
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has announced in the 2018 budget that 4,000 National Service Personnel (NSP) will be engaged to emboss the digital addresses on properties across the country.
“In 2018, government through Ghana Post will develop postal codes to feed into the National Identification System. About 4,000 National Service...
Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Authority, Hassan Tampuli, has reiterated the authority’s commitment to promoting a clean environment, as ongoing policy to promote low-sulphur diesel standards are enforced.
He said this when he received this year’s ‘Outstanding Policy’ award from the Climate and Clean Air Alliance at the on-going Climate...
The Babacar Ndiaye Lecture Series, an international series introduced by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), debuted in Washington D.C. recently with Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz asking that African countries to adopt a coordinated strategy that encompasses the agriculture, manufacturing, mining, and service sectors in order to attain the same...
Boston University (USA) and MedInscribe, in collaboration with Nestlé Nutrition Institute (NNI), has held a convocation and symposium in Accra for 35 Health Care Professionals (HCP) who enrolled on the online Post-Graduate Programme in Paediatric Nutrition (PGPN).
The PGPN, which is an educational initiative by MedInscribe offered in association with...
The government’s agenda towards job creation, particularly addressing the soaring unemployment numbers among university graduates, will be boosted with the introduction of “Nation Builders Corp,” a new initiative that is expected to see the absorption of 100,000 university graduates, next year.
The graduates to be hired under the programme will...
The latest figures from the Bank of Ghana shows that banks’ base rates have dropped by 0.3 percent, bringing the year-to-date drop to 1.9 percent.
The monthly Annual Percentage Rates (APR) of interest charged on loans and credit advances and the Average Interest (AI) paid on deposits by banks show...