The Israeli Embassy has held an education fair to expose Ghanaian students to the opportunities available for university education in Israel. Seven Israeli universities who participated in the fair, which was held at the British Council in Ghana’s capital, Accra, explained the various courses available in their respective schools, the...
French electricity conglomerate EDF, French transnational company Veolia and their local partner CH Group - who have put in a joint bid for the ECG Concession - have rejected the government policy that allocates 51 percent mandatory ownership of the concession to Ghanaian companies. In a letter dated February 12,...
The World Bank Country Director for Ghana, Henry Kerali, has advised that government turn its attention to reducing food imports so as to revitalise the Agricultural sector, which can contribute in improving the economy. He asked that government take steps to make the Agricultural sector even more attractive than it...
The 10th edition of the Northern Regional Tourism Awards, organised by the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA), came off at the weekend in Tamale.  Held under the theme: “promoting responsible tourism,” the event was aimed at honouring distinguished personnel and companies for their contributions toward the growth of the sector...
The insurance industry intends to start publishing claims paid to clients, on an annual basis, in a bid to change the perception among members of the public that the industry loathes claims payments. “We are thinking, actually, of the insurance industry publishing the quantum of claims paid in a...
Private pension funds have maintained their strong growth over the years, reaching a record high of GH¢9.7billion in 2017, from the previous year’s GH¢6.8billion. Data from the sector regulator, the National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA), show that 9.2 billion of the 9.7 billion was accrued from Assets Under Management (AUM)...
The Network for Women’s Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT) has organized a round-table discussion as part of its project of strengthening gender responsive policy processes in the agricultural sector The project is part of a broader programme on enhancing private sector participation in agricultural policy process in Ghana under the USAID...
The National Population Council (NPC) has appealed to government to tackle family planning, a population control initiative, as an economic intervention rather than a health issue. The NPC believes that doing so will deepen the benefit of the country considering the impact of an unplanned population on the country’s...
As creativity, innovation and machine intelligence become the currencies of the modern economy, Ghana must now begin to deliberately invest in the tools, talents, technologies and tactics of digital nation building. Projected by the World Bank, alongside Ethiopia and Tanzania, to be one of Africa’s fastest growing economies in 2018,...
2017 Digital Bank of the Year award winner, Guaranty Trust Bank (Ghana) Limited, has further deepened its partnership with the nation’s premier university, University of Ghana (UG) in the area of payments of fees and charges to the University; as the bank has extended its online collection platform to...