The socio-economic throes of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to bite hard with no end in sight yet.
As it has been opined widely by economic experts, life must continue nonetheless to prevent businesses from withering away.
For an important sector like agriculture, this position is even more crucial and must be...
Urban rail on the continent is vital in providing a very efficient alternative to transporting large volumes of passengers and freight at high frequencies and reasonable cost. Rallying with this notion, Ghana has embarked on intense rehabilitation and development of its national rail network.
This according to government, is to...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s global finance expertise would serve the WTO well given the nexus between trade and finance.
The next director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) will replace Brazilian Roberto de Azevedo, who has served since 2013 and plans to step down at the end of August, a year before...
In his forward entitled England and Wales: The Jurisdiction of Choice, The Rt Hon. Jack Straw MP, a former Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor noted that a whopping 80% of cases in UK’s specialized Commercial Courts involved a foreign claimant (plaintiff) or defendant and that, “....
Even though countries in Africa are endowed with many natural resources, most of them are poor and are beset by numerous problems. They have not been able to find ways to transform their huge potentials into reality. Since the attainment of independence from the late 1950s to the present...
The newly-launched Huawei Nova 7i got sold out across the country within four hours of its release, just like the Huawei Nova 5T. Huawei customers and enthusiasts all over the country rushed to authorized Huawei dealer shops near them to purchase the much-talked-about Huawei Nova 7i.
Customers who thronged Huawei...
The COVID-19 pandemic is devastating labor markets across the world. Tens of millions of workers lost their jobs, millions more out of the labor force altogether, and many occupations face an uncertain future. Social distancing measures threaten jobs requiring physical presence at the workplace or face-to-face interactions. Those unable...
The Ghana Stock Exchange has recorded a total of more than 262.2 million traded shares valued at GH¢ 194 million in the first six months of 2020 amid the uncertainty of the coronavirus crisis.
The performance, from January to June 2020, represents 107.9 percent growth in volumes and 87.7 percent...
The Ghana Shippers’ Authority (GSA) and the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) have renewed commitments to facilitate trade by air through regular inter-agency engagements for the benefit of exporters and importers.
The two state agencies made the pledge when the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Shippers’ Authority, Benonita Bismarck...
Ghanaian consumer confidence declines by 15 points
Nigerian sentiment also experiences a significant decline
Against a backdrop of the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, West African consumer sentiment has experienced a sharp drop in the Nielsen Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) for Quarter 2, 2020. Ghana’s figures show a substantial decrease of...