The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) has presented Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) worth GH¢20,000 and seed money of GH¢10,000 to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture to help agriculture extension officers and farmers mitigate possible impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The West Africa Head of AGRA, Mr....
The global financial landscape has witnessed increased regulations and legislations following the 2008 financial crisis. Regulatory compliance in the financial sector implies strict adherence to policies and regulations surrounding the regulatory and supervisory environment of financial institutions.
This includes, but not limited to compliance with Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Anti-Terrorist Financing...
Policy think-tank, Imani Africa, has petitioned President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo over a potential GH¢33m average daily revenue loss due to current challenges with the new integrated Customs Management Systems (ICUMS), otherwise known as UNIPASS, deployed at the country’s sea ports.
Imani, in the petition signed by its Founding President...
Ghana’s aviation sector is set to commence domestic flights operations after three weeks of lockdown for passenger flights. In this regard, protocols have been developed to guide the operators of domestic flights to contain the coronavirus spread and prevent infection.
Minister for Aviation, Joseph Kofi Adda, speaking during a virtual...
Even as Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, the Minister for Transport, via a letter has directed shipping companies to waive their demurrage/detention charges - fees importers pay for overstayed containers - with good intention, the lack of proper consultation among stakeholders, especially shipping companies, could render the directive a fantasy.
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Managing Director of the Republic Bank, Farid Antar, has reassured the business community - including small-scale enterprises - that banks in the country will do their best to offer financial assistance to businesses hit hard by impacts of the coronavirus pandemic for them to recover faster.
Many businesses have suffered...
Child Rights International (CRI), a child-centred organisation, has called on the Ministry of Education (MoE) to consider using the continuous assessment method as an alternative to award certification or grade students who are going to write BECE and WASSCE in the absence of written examinations at the end of...
As part of its GH¢1million commitment to the fight against the growing coronavirus pandemic, the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) has donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and sanitary items to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture and other state institutions to facilitate their work in the fight against COVID-19.
The items,...
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has said districts in the country without hospitals are expected to benefit from the construction of 88 new hospitals, targeted to be built to strengthen the local health infrastructure of the country.
The construction of these new facilities, which is expected to be completed...
COVID-19 has produced the right opportunity for Ghana to produce its own medicines and medical equipment and stop relying on imports, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said.
In his 8th address on the measures taken on the COVID-19 pandemic, the President thus urged the pharmaceutical industry to intensify its...