Savannah Women Integrated Development Agency (SWIDA-GH), a women empowerment Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), has launched a project to enhance the protection of women and young girls against violence and promote gender equality at all levels in the Northern region. The project, dubbed ‘Women Empowerment for Leadership and Action for Development (Women-LEAD)’,...
Ending the US-China trade war will be nothing compared to the experience of her mother being kidnapped, according to one of the frontrunners to lead the World Trade Organization. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, 66, said the reforms she spearheaded as Nigerian finance minister led to her octogenarian mother Kamene Okonjo being abducted...
There is a lot of indiscipline in our midst and people are having a field day getting away with almost anything. Reports coming in from parts of Ashanti Region show that indiscriminate sand winning is affecting cocoa farming, as sand winners are having a field day in places like Effiduase,...
Enterprise Life celebrated the hard work of 200 deserving Life Planners at an awards ceremony in Accra. The Annual Life Planners Awards Ceremony is a proprietary event hosted by Enterprise Life to reward outstanding Life Planners for the previous year. This event is borne out of the company’s culture of...
The India High Commissioner to Ghana, Sugandh Rajaram, has cautioned against violence and hooliganism ahead of election 2020, and advises that exercising democratic rights as citizens should be based on morality and cultural ethics for peace to prevail. "When we exercise our democratic rights to elect our leaders, it is...
The Ghanaian-German Centre for Jobs, Migration and Reintegration (GGC) has announced that its 2nd Gender Conference is slated for 7 October 2020 in Accra. The gender conference, which is on the theme, “Exploring Support Systems available in Ghana Before and after Migration: The Case of Female Migrant Workers" will bring...
The 2020 National Science & Maths Quiz (NSMQ2020) is getting heated with a mix of excitement and sadness. The competition which is now in the Absa Money Zone stage is becoming more intense and interesting as big schools fall out. Schools such as Prempeh College, Wesley Girls High School, Holy Child,...
Traditional banks need to quickly build a new digital core based on open and distributed technologies In the banking industry, the stable running of IT systems is imperative. This is what drove the industry to begin IT construction relatively early and what continues to drive it to make significant investments...
The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) and a German crowdfunding platform, frankly.green, has teamed up to provide alternative source of cheap financing to businesses in the country, especially climate-smart ones. Frankly.green seeks to finance projects or companies with a strong positive impact on the environment such those whose activities generate...
The first few quarters of the year have been dominated by events related to the health and economic pandemic – including loss of life and economic livelihood. Ghana’s GDP, according to the most recent forecast from the Ministry of Finance, of 0.9% is the lowest the country has recorded...