When I first heard about the community of Old Fadama in Accra, Ghana, I recognised something. A Ghanaian Catholic sister who visited the green market weekly in that neighbourhood told me about it. She worried about a community of vulnerable migrant women known as “head porters” or kayayei, who...
Barring any hiccups, the Register General’s Department (RGD) is expected to deploy the much-anticipated central beneficiary ownership (OB) register by next week.
The deployment of the BO register will be done concurrently with the upgrade of the Company’s’ Act, 2019, (Act 992) in fulfillment of government’s quest of creating an...
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are global development goals setup up by the UN with consultation from it partner states and other partner institutions.
The main objective of these goals is to eradicate poverty, ensure sustainable development and environmental protection.
The UN and all its partners believe that these objectives can...
Insurance and retail giants, Hollard Ghana and Melcom Limited have announced the addition of general insurance to their partnership following an endorsement by the National Insurance Commission.
The addition will strengthen the insurance and retail industry’s pioneering partnership to widen insurance penetration and make it more accessible to Ghanaians.
Via Hollard...
G-Money, GCB Bank Ghana Limited’s mobile money service has launched ‘Nexus,’ an open Application Programming Interface (API) system to onboard third-party Financial Technology (FinTech) partners.
With the API, G-Money partners are now able to perform disbursements, collections and Bill Payments including the payment of school fees and utility bills. Additionally,...
The Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has called on government to regularize BT cowpea, a genetically modified variety.
The new insect resistant improved cowpea variety developed by the Institute in collaboration with partner institutions, has the potential to boost cowpea production by...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had both economic and social effects on local communities, resulting in an increase in crime, domestic violence, prices, and low business productivity.
However, assistance from non-state actors such as churches and philanthropists provided significant support in complementing Government’s efforts to lessen the impact of the pandemic...
The government has set a revenue target of US$1 billion from export of vegetables over the next six to seven years.
The projection is banked on recent investments in green house villages at Bawjiase, Akomadan and Dawhenya and the construction of irrigation dams across the country, which the government expects...
Businesses belonging to Persons With Disability (PDWs) from the northern part of the country have been provided with GH¢200,000 under the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (NEIP).
The package is in line the Presidential Empowerment for Entrepreneurs with Disability through the Ministry for Business Development. In all, an amount of...
Strategic Sourcing and Industrialisation insights with Prof Douglas Boateng
Africa is one of the fastest growing consumer markets in the world, yet spending habits on the continent remain an obstacle to long-term industrialisation and economic development. The adoption of more strategic consumer sourcing and buying behaviors may offer greater opportunities...