Qatar Airways has arrived in Ghana and plans to operate four weekly flights to Accra via Lagos, becoming the fourth new destination launched by the national carrier of the State of Qatar since the start of the pandemic. The Accra service will be operated by the airline’s state-of-the-art Boeing 787...
The establishment of the Tree Crop Development Authourity (TCDA), in line with the government efforts to formalize the tree crop sector, as well as ensuring a reliable price mechanism within the sector and others, is estimated to turn over some $14 billion annually. According to the President, Nana Addo Dankwa...
In recognition of the challenges experienced by most businesses and the rapid reforms in the Ghanaian banking sector specifically, Dominic Adu, the CEO of First National Bank Ghana has shared some insights on how to positively adapt to the new changes to banking service delivery, relevant to the needs...
The British Prime Minister has called on nations to make ambitious commitments to secure the planet for the next generation as he addressed a UN Climate Action Roundtable hosted by the UN Secretary-General. Boris Johnson attended the virtual roundtable to push for action on climate change and to chart a...
The Deputy Director of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-Crops Research Institute (CSIR-CRI), Prof. Mrs. Marian Quain, has rekindled the call for the adoption of genetically modified (GM) crops to brighten the agenda of agricultural transformation to drive economic growth and development. She observed that with the rising agricultural...
President Akufo-Addo will today inaugurate the Tree Crops Development Authority in Kumasi which is expected to diversify the country’s agricultural export commodity from the over-reliance on cocoa to other tree crops considered to possess economic value. Government has strategically positioned the tree crop sector to drive the country’s industrialization programme...
Ghana has an impressive story of economic growth. But this comes with a warning: the natural resources that underpin this success must be protected and sustainably managed. Over the past 30 years, an increase in the price and production of cocoa, gold, and oil helped transform Ghana: real GDP growth...
The discovery of oil in the last decade has presented an immutable opportunity in boosting Ghana’s economic growth. However, it has led to encountering some puzzling consequences into its resource exploitation. For instance, in the upstream oil and gas value chain, every local and foreign entity carrying out operations has...
FBNBank Ghana Limited, a subsidiary of First Bank of Nigeria Limited, has inaugurated its ultramodern Ring Road Central branch, located at Nima Junction in Accra. The opening of the new Ring road branch forms part of the bank’s strategy to reaffirm its commitment to Ghana as well as to demonstrate...
COCOBOD has signed a 1.3-billion-dollar syndicated loan with 28 banks to finance the purchase of cocoa beans for the 2020/2021 crop season. The meeting which was organized via a video conferencing due to the COVID-19 pandemic saw 28 banks participate in this year’s syndication. The loan has an interest rate of...