The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has been charged to take advantage of the numerous opportunities afforded by technology to increase the tax to GDP ratio, and thereby help reduce the country’s dependency on aid and donor support.
“The country’s tax to Gross Domestic Products (GDP) ratio, which is quite alarming,...
Executive Secretary of the Lands Commission, Dr. Wilfred K. Anim Odame, has said that its upcoming digital system, dubbed the Ghana Enterprise Land Information System (GELIS), is one of the key interventions designed to reduce the turnaround time, bureaucracies and corruption in the system.
According to him, the GELIS innovation...
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Dear Readers, I hope you had a good week and are ready to face another week. My last article was not to create passions among bank staff, but rather generate discussions on the...
itel, one of Ghana’s fastest emerging mobile phone brands has launched two of its sophisticated mobile phones on the Ghanaian market as part as its celebrates 10years of providing a cutting edge mobile devices to users of their products.
The S32 currently itel's best most impressive dual selfie camera mobile...
During the middle part of this year 2017, Ecobank Ghana laid off 181 contract staff with the reason that it is part of a digital migration strategy to improve banking experience for its clients, according to the Regional Head of Corporate Communications and Marketing at Ecobank, Patricia Sappor.
She said,...
Slydepay, a locally-developed electronic payments platform, has launched “Pay like a Boss" campaign to enable individuals, businesses, and institutions receive and send payments across a variety of channels including mobile phones, bank accounts, and payment cards (VISA & MasterCard).
Speaking at the launch in Accra, Mr. Derrydean Dadzie, CEO of...
The Payment Systems Oversight report by the Bank of Ghana (BoG) shows the value of mobile money transactions as of December 2016 reached GH¢78.5billion, indicating a 121.5 percent growth compared to the GH¢35.4billion recorded over the same period in 2015.
The report also shows that the number of registered mobile...
Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has disclosed that all is set for the country’s digital payments systems to be brought together and put on a single platform, which is technically known as interoperability, this month.
According Dr. Bawumia, who was speaking at the Global Business Forum on Africa in Dubai,...
The Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications and the GSMA on Wednesday 25th October 2017, organized the Ghana Child Online Protection Conference in collaboration with the Ministry of Communications under the Cyber Security Week 2017.
The Minister of Communications Ursula Owusu-Ekuful graced the occasion as mobile operators showed commitments to drive further discussion that guides...
With increasingly more corporate organisations becoming targets for cybercriminals, Nobuhle Nkosi, Head of Financial Lines Africa, Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS), has said businesses would be better off transferring the risk associated to cybercrime to insurers.
According to her by 2020, the number of cybercrimes recorded globally would hit...