Yara Ghana Limited, a leading name in the fertiliser industry of Ghana, has made a donation of GH¢200,000 to the COVID-19 National Trust Fund as part of its support to the country in its fight against the COVID -19 pandemic. The West Africa Regional Director for Yara International, Mr. Danquah...
The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) is committed to consolidating its relationship with the Republic of The Gambia through the financing of key infrastructure projects to propel economic transformation. EBID will also fund developmental initiatives with the sole purpose of positively impacting the livelihoods of the Gambian people...
Bayport Savings and Loans has expressed its support in the fight against COVID-19 by donating test kits and Personal Protection Equipment, toiletries and boxes of water worth GH¢100,000 to selected hospitals across Ghana. Bayport’s donation to these hospitals seeks to complement government’s efforts to improve availability and accessibility of PPE...
The list of countries reporting cases of Omicron is still increasing. CNN reported last week that Poland and Niger were among four new additions to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's "very high" risk travel category on Tuesday. Papua New Guinea in the southwestern Pacific and Trinidad...
The Cocoa Marketing Company (CMC), Ghana Shippers Authority (GSA) and the 24 shipping lines operating in the country have resolved to stay freight charges for the 2020/2021 cocoa season. This means the rate, calculated per tonne, for shipping the crop to the various locations across the world remains unchanged at...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Executive Board has approved an immediate debt service relief to 25, including 19 African countries, of the IMF’s member countries under the fund’s revamped Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust (CCRT). This relief programme forms part of the fund’s response to help address the impact of...
The Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government will be holding an extraordinary session through videoconference scheduled for this morning at 10am Universal Time. The Heads of State will be discussing the ‘Situation and Impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic in the ECOWAS Region’. The Ministers in Charge of Finance...
Mastercard Foundation, in partnership with the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI), an agency under the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI), has announced the creation of an Emergency Program to support micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and start-ups in Ghana during the economic downturn caused by...
It is a known fact that global governance was well structured, administered and controlled by institutions created without Africa’s inclusion at a time when they were under colonial bondage (Uhomoibhi, 2019). Therefore, as late actors, their influence was challenged given that their interests were not taken into account in the...
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is still here, and thus Ghanaians must wake up to that reality and follow the safety protocols, Deputy North East Regional Minister Mr. Tahiru Tia Ahmmed has said. According to him, though his region is fortunate not to have recorded any COVID case in the past...

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