Maxwell:                     Good evening Otema. I’m looking forward to a pleasant conversation with you. You’ve had all these leadership roles in big corporations, like IBM, Vodafone, being the first-ever female country manager in Microsoft's Africa operations, what advice would you share with young woman entering such a male...
The Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) has begun the disbursement of stimulus packages to affected traders whose shops were destroyed by fire at the Odawna Market. According to the Director of Operations, Dominic Baah Ayim, for Masloc 250 people on Friday, December 4, 2020, have received their stimulus packages...
The national project coordinator - ILO-Score Ghana, Samuel Onoma-Asiedu, has noted that the Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) is an ILO global programme that seeks to improve productivity and working conditions in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). SCORE was launched during 2011 in Ghana with funding from the State...
The Registrar-General will today, Wednesday, November 25, 2020, meet investors of eight Fund Management Companies for Creditor Meetings. Investors can join the virtual meeting through specially designated time slots and specially created ID’s. The eight fund Managers include Unisecurities Ghana Limited, EM Capital Partners, Heritage Securities Limited, Corporate Hills Investment Limited...
Ghana innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem summit is set to take place tomorrow, the 25th of November 2020 in Accra to engage industry players on innovation and entrepreneurship in the country. Dubbed: ‘Accelerate 2030’, the event which is organised by the SDGs Advisory Unit of the Office of the President, will bring together...
A deliberate policy intervention that must be put in place to support young entrepreneurs/start-ups and SMEs particularly operating in food processing or agribusiness to participate in intra-Africa trade through the AfCFTA platform. As a youth, I have been watching and following the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) from its...
The Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) programme by the United States government is providing refreshing new opportunities for growth for female entrepreneurs across the globe, as some 48 female entrepreneurs graduate from the programme. AWE is a part of the U.S. Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative, a whole-of-government effort...
The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) has said it is committed to collaborating with Academia to ensure quality production of human resources to support the transformation of industry. This comes at the back of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) being signed by AGI with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science...
The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has announced to undertake disinfection and fumigation exercise on Sunday, as part of phase three of the nationwide exercise being done to fight COVID-19. The exercise will start from 8 AM to 12 PM across all the major markets in the Metropolis. In view of this,...
The State of Israel's Agency for International Development Cooperation (MASHAV), has selected five Ghanaian entrepreneurs and three health-care institutions to receive grants worth GH¢422,612 to support them in their quest to implement capacity building projects. Ambassador of Israel to Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Shani Cooper - speaking at the...