The Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the Bolgatanga Technical University (BTU) in the Upper East Region, Professor Samuel Erasmus Alnaa, has reiterated the need for government to as a matter of urgency provide the university with academic-user facilities - especially a lecture theatre complex to aid skill development.
According to him, this...
TD Markets, a South African global award-winner and multi-regulated broker, as part of its vision to equip budding youth on the African continent with digital trading skills has collaborated with Women in Forex Ghana to embark on a digital-finance programme (DFP) to empower about 600 students in the country.
TD...
Financial results of Ghana’s banking industry for 2022 and the 1st quarter of 2023 indicate that banks have survived the inevitable challenges imposed by government’s domestic debt exchange programme. TOMA IMIRHE uses two biggest banks’ performance to assess the situation.
It appears that Ghana’s banking industry has turned the corner...
Government has joined forces with OCP Group, a Moroccan company, to complete the front-end engineering design (FEED) for a US$1.3billion fertiliser complex at Takoradi, in a bid to diversify the economy and reduce reliance on oil and gas resources.
The project, expected to be operational within the next three years,...
Government has received US$150million in additional financing from the International Development Association (IDA) for the Ghana Productive Safety Net Project 2 (GPSNP 2).
The funding, according to a statement released in Washington by the World Bank, will expand and enhance social safety nets and provide access to productive income-generating opportunities...
The Ghana Enterprises Agency (GEA) has launched a specialised support programme for persons with disability (PWD) under its micro-, small-, medium enterprise (MSME) support activities.
Dubbed the PWD Enterprise Support Programme, the intervention demonstrates government's commitment to improving businesses owned by persons with disabilities (PWDs).
The programme is part of a series of...
as it marks Menstrual Hygiene Day with Korle Gonno Cluster of Schools
Girls Excellence Movement (GEM), a non-profit youth organisation that seeks to build the capacity of girls, has thrown its weight behind calls for the removal of taxes on menstrual products.
Citing a study it conducted from 2019 -...
In a move that is set to change the face of supply chain and SME financing in Africa, the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) and the supply chain financing company, Fiducia, have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote factoring across the continent and help reduce the supply...
Today, the fisheries sector is playing an extremely important role in Ghana. It binds hundreds of coastal communities, supporting livelihoods and survival for almost 3 million people.
Unfortunately, the sector has become very vulnerable because of foreign influence. According to some European researchers at least 90percent of industrial trawlers operating...
...but the international architecture must adapt to a fast-changing world
Rising from the ashes of three disastrous decades of deglobalisation, extremism, and world war, our two institutions were built on the idea that thriving international trade goes hand in hand with global prosperity and stability. On balance, the post–World War...