The Chief Executive Officer of Digital Square Innovative Technology Solutions, Kwaku Akuamoah, has urged credit union companies to innovate in order to take advantage of the potentials that exist in the financial service sector to remain in competition. He said credit unions in Ghana, today, find themselves in an extremely...
Even though their umbrella sector – services - remains the largest contributor to GDP in the country, holding 56.2 percent of economic activities, the financial and insurance subsectors saw a drop in their contribution to the economy from 9.4 to 8.8 percent, Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) data have shown. The...
For the first time in the history of the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), which is held annually in the American city of Houston, Ghana will have a Pavilion at the April 30 to May 3, 2018 event. This is according to the Commercial Section of the United States Embassy in...
Group Profits of Ghana Oil Company Limited (GOIL) increased by 21 percent to GH¢65.1million in 2017. GOIL as a company also recorded a profit after tax of GH¢39,335,000 compared to the GH¢35,256,000 recorded in 2016 GOIL also paid GH¢1.128bn as taxes and levies to government during the same year. This was...
A team of officers from the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) is in the Central Region visiting selected communities as part of a nationwide door-to-door LPG safety campaign. The team, from the Corporate Affairs Division, visited several eateries in the Mankessim, Komenda and Cape Coast areas, where vendors were educated on...
The Ministry of Trade has awarded a 10-year third single window contract to Ghana Link Network Services Limited - which has CUPIA Korea Customs Service as its overseas partner. The sole-sourced contract, which was signed on March 29, 2018 and published on the Public Procurement Authority’s (PPA) website, is meant...
Made for creators to deliver stunning content, the Nokia 7 plus is now available to buy through accredited dealers nationwide  HMD Global, the home of Nokia phones, has announced that the Nokia 7 plus is now available to buy from accredited dealers for GH¢1,700 from April 23. A smartphone with striking...
The OneGhana Movement, a Not-for-Profit organisation, has launched a dustbin project dubbed ‘Adopt-A-Bin’ as part of efforts to effectively manage waste and beautify Accra. Available records from the city authority, Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), indicated that out of the over 2,500 tonnes of waste generated daily, only 1,125 tonnes representing...
The global beauty industry, according to Euromonitor International, is worth some US$670billion - an indication that Ghana can leverage this industry as it has recently seen growing interest among the youth. From every nook and cranny pops-up beauty shops like hair parlours, skin care shops, nail parlours, spas, cosmetic shops...
Volunteer travel, volunteer vacations or voluntourism is travel which includes volunteering for a charitable cause. (Wikipedia). Tourism in which travelers do voluntary work to help communities or the environment in the places they are visiting (Dictionary.com). “Voluntourism” is the intersection of international volunteering and tourism, also called variously “volunteer...