Today, President Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo will inaugurate and hand over the secretariat for the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to the African Union Commission.
This is another momentous occasion in the annals of Africa’s economic emancipation, and is indeed a moment to be proud of. Ghana committed to donate...
COVID-19 has had devastating effects on businesses of all shapes and sizes around the world. This has caused a drastic shift in conduct and behaviour at work. It is affecting organisational culture, human interactions at work among others. Various measures have been put in place to contain and curb...
The ranging novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has suppressed import and export trade. The volume of goods passing through the country's two seaports declined by 44.9 per cent to 3.77 million tonnes in the first quarter of 2020.
Data from the Ghana Shippers' Authority (GSA) shows that total throughput reduced from...
Even though the country undertook a massive financial sector cleanup recently, there are still snippets of underhand dealings going on in the sector.
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) this week announced that in 2019, the banking industry reported a total number of 2,295 fraud cases as compared to 2,175 fraud...
Dr. Manfred B. Ewool, a Senior Research Scientist and Maize Breeder at the Council for Scientific Industrial Research (CSIR) Crops Research Institute (CRI), notes that since maize is a staple food in Ghana, enhancing it with Vitamin A is a long- term approach to minimise Vitamin 'A' Deficiency (VAD)...
While President Akufo-Addo and the Receiver of collapsed financial institutions, Eric Nana Nipa, have publicly claimed that they have almost completed paying depositors’ locked funds, Ezekiel Annor-Head of the Association of Affected Customers of Savings and Loans institutions, is disputing the claims.
According to Mr. Annor, many of the affected...
We were recently told by the Energy Minister, John Peter Amewu, that the 3% levy charged all consumers of electricity for street lighting generated GH¢273.9million for the years 2018 and 2019.
And out of that amount, the minister stated, GH¢134,266,116 was collected in 2018 and GH¢139,610,716 the following year.
Per the...
Ghana’s installed power capacity is about 4,399MW, of which 22.5WM is renewable energy against a demand of about 2,700MW. Initially, the country intended to develop and utilise renewable energy and energy-efficiency technologies to achieve a 10% penetration of national electricity production by 2020.
By the end of 2017, the strategy...
The Ghana Employers’ Association (GEA) is urging government to work with business associations to identify indigenous businesses and support them to locally produce intermediate goods and raw materials to fill the supply chain disruptions created by the pandemic now and into the future.
According to the Association, this will reinforce...
A member of the COVID-19 National Response Team, Dr. Da Costa Aboagye, has expressed the conviction that the country is making significant progress against the COVID-19 battle.
According to Dr. Aboagye, the rate of active cases keep declining.
Speaking in an interview recently, he observed that the country’s active case count...
