An additional income tax bracket of 35 percent from 30 percent, the increase in Value Added Tax (VAT) rate by two and a half percentage points from 12.5 percent to 15 percent, including other major reforms undertaken with respect to VAT exemptions just simply further exacerbate the already fragile...
The rural banking system is clearly a significant, strategically placed financial institution in Ghana. The Rural Banking networks local knowledge can also be considered as a very important asset to business development and can be leveraged as the financing institutions that Know their customers and the local norms in...
In organizations, entrepreneurial ventures, career, and leadership journeys, we sometimes overlook the soft essentials needed to balance key technical capacities. The process of blending knowledge is the key to creating balance and generating the required impact in any field of life, work and love. Soft skill assets are of...
When you meet Abraham Aguriba, his calm demeanour belies his fierce passion for sustainability. It is an attribute that shines through any interaction with him, even more so when it has to do with construction of a 12-storey ultra-modern complex that happens to be the head office of CalBank...
The Accountable Governance Programme and Policy Manager at Oxfam, Mohammed Mahamud, has said fund allocation to specific services within the health sector, such as Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), have been left to donors alone, and therefore must be given the needed attention.
A situation he says could...
The Deputy Minister of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development, Collins Augustine Ntim, has said the government has so far secured an amount of GH¢3.35 million from the United States International Agency for Development (USAID) for the implementation of projects to improve developmental activities in the north of the...
While government is yet to officially write to the Chamber of Mines on the proposed gold for oil barter policy, the Chamber is wary of how having too much cedis could affect its members.
The government wants large-scale miners to sell, at least, 20 percent of their gold in local...
Eduwatch calls for increase in Domestic Violence fund to Gh₵2M
The Ghana Statistical Services (GSS), in the 2021 Population Census Report, has indicated that about 80,000 girls between 12 and 17 years are either married or living with a man, a factor that has been identified as an impediment...
Development Bank Ghana (DBG) has participated in the Global 2022 CEO Forum of African Development Finance Institutions organised by the Association of African Development Finance Institutions (AADFI) in collaboration with the Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Agency (CEDA). The event was held in Gaborone, Botswana under the theme ‘Building Partnerships for...
The Chief Executive Officer of MASLOC, Hajia Abibata Shanni Mahama Zachariah, led the Management of the institution to pay a courtesy call on the former President J.A Kufuor.
The CEO of MASLOC, who was accompanied by Deputy Chief of Staff Mr. Emmanuel Adumua-Bossman, informed the former President that their visit...