One hundred and fifty Ghanaian youth across the country have benefitted from the Accelerated Oil and Gas (AOGC) Programme at the Jubilee Technical Training Center to fill the skills gap in the country’s oil and gas industry. This cohort is made up of 127 males and 23 females. They were...
MTN Ghana has upgraded its SIM Registration web portal to enable customers link their Ghana Card to their data SIM card(s) seamlessly. With this implementation, MTN subscribers can visit the SIM registration online portal and link their Ghana Card to their MTN data number without the need to insert...
Ten State-owned Enterprises (SOEs) operating in the energy space recorded cumulative losses of GH¢9billion within three years. The sector’s SOEs recorded losses of GH¢3.7billion in 2018, GH¢2.9billion in 2019 and GH¢2.5billion in 2020 - with Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Tema Oil Refinery, Valco and Northern Electricity Distribution Company among...
Direct participation by domestic retail investors on the equities market remains the most significant indicator of the level of confidence in the market, and concerted efforts are required to reverse the phenomenon locally. This is according to a consultant to the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE), David Ganesha Tetteh, who argues...
The Pan African Payments and Settlement System (PAPPS) is the intra-African trade and commerce payments, centralised payment and settlement system. With the participation of banks and fintechs, the deployment of this system is expected to contribute to solving the issue of low intra-African Trade. Speaking at The Money Summit, Head...
The managers of GCB Bank have moved to allay fears over the sustainability of its loan asset quality as measured by its Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) ratio in the 2021 fiscal year. Despite the impressive growth in the bank’s assets value and a corresponding rise in its net profit, the state-owned...
In-house professional doctors of the Vodafone Healthline Programme have cautioned that while oral sex does not directly cause oral cancer, recent studies have shown that it predisposes one to it - especially when one is engaged in such an activity with multiple sex partners, hence the need to take...
Amid controversies surrounding the electronic transactions levy (E-levy), the President appended his signature to the E-levy bill, turning it into law just two days after the moot approval of the bill by the majority group in parliament, as the minority group staged a walkout. The E-levy, which is to cover...
Gold Fields Ghana Foundation, in collaboration with Ghana Health Service at the Prestea Huni-Valley Municipality in the Western Region, has celebrated this year’s ‘World Malaria Day’. The day offers a platform for individuals and institutions to educate the communities, churches, mosques, etc., on some simple and effective ways to prevent...
Daystar Power, the leading provider of solar power solutions to West Africa’s industrial manufacturers, announced that it has installed a 1.6 MW solar plant for Ghandour Cosmetic to power its operations with solar energy. It is the largest solar installation for a cosmetics company in Ghana. The company is the...