The Deputy Commissioner in charge of Petroleum Operations at the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority, Baffour Yaw Anane Asare, has revealed that the Time Release Study to be undertaken by Customs will give Ghana’s ports a competitive advantage over its peers.
He believes landlocked countries like Burkina Faso,...
Deputy Trade and Industry Minister in Charge of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Nana Ama Dokua Asiamah-Adjei, has launched the 2022 edition of Ghana Startups and SMEs Week with a call on Ghanaians to be driven by the desire to create their own businesses.
This, she said, is the only...
The Bank of Ghana has announced its official launch of the Regulatory and Innovation Sandbox, a partnership between the central bank of Ghana under the Fintech and Innovation Office and EMTECH Africa, a regtech helping to modernise central banks in developed and emerging markets. This forms part of the...
Agriculture, both crop and animal-rearing, has long been done with primitive methods - thereby affecting productivity and making it unattractive to the modern youth. But someone - Wisdom Mahami - is changing the narrative. This week’s Inspiring Start-ups shares the story of Crosslinksfarms, an agri-tech start-up making laudable progress...
Africa’s Global Bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has announced its audited financial results for the half-year ended June 30, 2022 - recording double-digit growth across key income lines as well as significant progress in contributions from its subsidiaries.
At the end of the year’s first two quarters, the...
African leaders have pledged to identify, define and develop local solutions to challenges facing local agricultural production to build effective and sustainable food systems for the people of Africa, and deliver zero hunger by 2030.
The leaders, who included sitting and former Heads of State and Governments as well as heads...
MTN Ghana has organised community engagement sessions with a cross-section of customers in five regions, with recent sessions held in the West and Central Regions to sensitise them to register their SIM cards with the Ghana Card.
The forums were attended by a cross-section of artisans including dressmakers, tailors, hairdressers...
Stanbic Bank Ghana, as part of its commitment to fashioning valuable partnerships and upholding Ghanaian heritage and culture, has presented a cheque for GH¢40,000 to the Asogli State.
Presenting the cheque and three boxes of Schnapps, Manager, Communication at Stanbic Bank, Kojo Akoi-Larbi, underscored the importance of social support in...
As the rapid growth of fintech continues and the birth of decentralised finance (DeFi) grows across Africa, leading fintechs, investors, crypto platforms, ventures and digital finance stakeholders will connect at the Africa Money & DeFi Summit-West Africa edition on September 27-28, 2022 at the Movenpick Hotel, Accra.
The leading business Summit will...
Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHA), Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, has announced plans exist to establish staff clinics in all regional hospitals across the country to serve as establishments that specifically cater for the health needs of health workers.
He noted that effective health planning will not yield the needed...
