OCP Africa, a subsidiary of OCP Group - a leading global producer of fertiliser based in Morocco - rolled out one of its several intended projects in the country last week, dubbed the OCP School Lab. It is a mobile laboratory that moves from community to community, educating farmers in...
Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has urged rural banks in the country to take advantage and make adequate use of the digitisation system being established in the country. He said the National Identification Card and introduction of the digital addressing system will give unique identities to individuals and also assist...
The Minority in Parliament claims that the upcoming 2018 Budget to be presented by the Finance Minister on Wednesday, 15th November,2017 is expected to contain a tax on mobile money transactions. According to the spokesperson for Minority on Finance, Cassiel Ato Forson, government has the intention to tax mobile...
...as its capital investments hit US$3.2bn In the last decade, Newmont Ghana Gold Limited (NGGL) has paid a total of US$883million in taxes, royalties and levies to the state, making it one of the leading taxpayers in the country. In 2016 alone, the company paid US$78million into government’s coffers (US$36 in...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Wednesday, November 8, 2107, pulled the symbolic switch to officially inaugurate Cargill’s solar facility at the company’s factory in Tema. The President in a brief remark congratulated Cargill for the initiative and said the move to host solar powered energy is in line with...
With implementation of the digital address system via Ghana Post GPS and the expected roll out of a National Identification System, the 2018 budget must introduce innovative measures to make tax collection easier and attractive, a GN Research pre-budget analysis has said. “The paperworks and the bureaucracy must be reduced...
Direct Savings and Loans Ltd, has been adjudged “Promising Savings and Loans Company” at the just ended 2017 Ghana Accountancy and Finance Awards (Ghafawards). This took place at the maiden edition of the Ghafawards which came off at the Movenpick Hotel, Accra over the weekend. The Ghana Accountancy and Finance Awards...
Ann Miles, Director of Financial Inclusion at the Mastercard Foundation (left) with Buhle Goslar, Director of Customer Intelligence at Jumo, winner of the 2017 Mastercard Foundation Clients at the Centre Prize. The Mastercard Foundation has presented its third annual Clients at the Centre Prize to Jumo. The US$150,000 prize recognizes the...
There has been a series of attacks on web based applications in Ghana in recent times. In the past three years, Ghanaian organizations and agencies, most especially government agencies have experienced severe cyber-attacks. Most organizations in the country operate their web based applications without protecting the HTML codes. HTML (Hypertext...
The advent of the internet has changed the way business is done. It has greatly impacted business by just a click. It has also offered management of organistions a plethora of ways to effective organisational management by reaching out to multiplicity of people that their businesses are exposed to....