Decisions. We all make them. But it is always the end that justifies the means. Today’s Inspiring Startups page features a young lady who made a choice that some will find unthinkable. This lady decided to make drinks to sell and resigned from a bank. Read on as she...
The Auditor General, Mr. Daniel Yao Domelevo, has indicated that on issues of corruption and fraud, preventive measures are better than corrective measures. He made this statement when he addressed vendors and suppliers at the maiden MTN Ethics & Fraud Awareness Workshop held in Accra. Mr. Domelevo, who was the first...
The President and Chairman of Groupe Nduom, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, has given GH¢80,000 as seed capital to the first eight students of the Nduom School of Business and Technology (NBS&T) to start and manage a new company to be formed by them. Speaking during an interaction with the students...
Officials of Assin North Senior High School have been given two weeks by the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament to purge themselves of perjury or cough up over GH₵61,000. According to the 2015 Auditor General's report, the school made payments of GH₵163,000 without receipts and invoices to verify the payments. Officials...
The Ghana Education Service (GES) is set to abrogate an ICT contract for Senior High Schools in the country more than two years after paying several millions of Ghana cedis to a service provider by name Eduvid Education Limited. The deal signed on 13th November, 2015 was for the supply...
About 26 pharmacy students from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and four professional workers will be embarking on the second edition of the Advance Pharmacy Initiative in Florida’s Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU), USA, this year. The exchange program which has been described as an ambitious...
Businesses will have to adapt to the changing payment system in order to support the cash-lite drive. This is according to Mr. Archie Hesse, the Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement System (GhIPSS). He said some long-held corporate practices will have be aligned to electronic payments. Ghana...
Smaller crops, more demand pave way for balance in 2017/18 Cargill looking to expand origin processing, focus on Africa Company to work with Ivory Coast on high-yield seed concerns Cargill sees the cocoa market broadly balanced in the current 2017/18 season and is aiming to expand its processing capacity...
People’s Pension Trust (PPT) Ghana Limited has started paying bonuses to pension contributors – a move expected to boost pensions in especially the informal sector. The company has offered a 10% top-up on the total pension contribution its loyal customers made in the year 2017. The beneficiaries, over a hundred,...
Poor corporate governance in the financial sector is to blame for the collapse and struggles of many banks and savings and loans companies in the country, Dr. Williams Abayaawien Atuilik, a chartered economist and banker has said. According to him, research has indicated that some board members of financial institutions...