Though the global shift toward green transportation in the maritime sector continues to be of utmost importance to mitigate risks of climate change, developing countries including Ghana remain challenged due to lack of finance, Transport Minister, Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, has said. The minister was speaking at the opening ceremony of...
Delegation from the United State of America has witnessed firsthand the potential promise and challenges of collaboration with Ghana’s sustainable entrepreneurship ecosystem. The Delegation led by Dorothy McAuliffe, the U.S. Special Representative for Global Partnerships, recently visited the Impact Hub in Ghana to learn about the local startup culture and...
Medical Director at Africa Medical Information Centre (AMIC), Dr. Akshay Rath, is confident that the presence of his outfit in Ghana and the continent at large will boost access to higher training, higher quality patient care and modern medical facilities. Its Accra Centre, inaugurated at the beginning of this year,...
Consumer inflation declined to 53.6 percent in January, marking the first time in the last 19 months that a fall in the year-on-year inflation rate has been recorded. The inflation rate had accelerated for 19 consecutive months, ending at 54.1 percent year on year in December 2022 according to data...
The Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF) is set to invest up to US$30million in Atlantic Lithium Ltd., an Australian exploration and mining firm listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). MIIF is currently locked in negotiations with Atlantic - which discovered lithium in commercial quantities in Ghana and is on...
The number of unregistered SIM cards in the country stood at 8.7 million - representing 20.40 percent of the 42.5 million SIMs - as of February 9, 2023 Minister for Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has revealed. The over-8 million represents those cards whose owners have not attempted to link their Ghana Cards...
First National Bank has announced the appointment of Sylvia Inkoom as Executive Director responsible for Corporate and Investment Banking. Sylvia’s appointment is aligned with the bank’s strategic intent of attracting quality talent in the financial services industry, so as to deepen client access across its broad range of corporate...
GOIL has for the fifth consecutive time sponsored the National Spelling Bee Competition as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility. The 2023 edition, which marks the 15th year since inception of the contest, was climaxed with a grand finale held in Accra with over 150 participants battling it out for...
announce February 20 as reporting date The Ghana Education Service (GES) has asked some 165,619 graduates of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), representing 31 percent of the 2022 cohort, to access the self-placement option to be able to secure admission to the Free Senior High School (FSHS) programme...
The Africa Economic Summit Group has announced plans for the Africa Economic Summit 2023. Africa Economic Summit, the first annual summit that establishes Africa as the frontier of global thinking on major economic issues in the world, is an assemblage of senior leaders committed to growth of the continent...