Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta, as per Section 28 of the Public Financial Management Act, 2016 (Act 921), presented the 2020 mid-year budget review and supplementary estimates for the financial year in Parliament on Thursday, July 23. The budget review presentation by Mr. Ofori-Atta touched on key economic indicators such...
The proliferation of digital innovations that allow people to work from home and make transactions online has been key to mitigating some challenges of the coronavirus. However, this digital shift has also heightened the threat of cyberattacks, particularly in emerging markets.
As lockdowns and curfews were introduced around the world to protect citizens...
Global Media Alliance Broadcasting Company (GMABC), parent company of three pace-setting giants in the Ghanaian broadcasting space - YFM (Accra, Kumasi & Takoradi), Happy98.9FM and e.TV Ghana - in partnership with Ghana's favourite Insurance group, Hollard Ghana, has officially set the month of August as ‘Hollard Insurance Month’.
‘Hollard Insurance...
Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta was successful in convincing the legislature to suspend fiscal responsibility rules contained in the Fiscal Responsibility Act, 2018 (Ac t 982).
The scale of damage and macroeconomic distortions caused by the pandemic is unprecedented in the country’s history, and makes it possible to invoke the escape...
Things are tough. Everything is in limbo. COVID-19 has seen to that. There is not an industry that is not negatively affected by the pandemic. And its worldwide.
The oil and gas industry is no exception.
Companies in Ghana's oil and gas sector are in a state of flux.
The disruption to...
Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams has announced the 2020 Prayer Works virtual prayer summit from Thursday, August 20 to Saturday, August 22.
The event will assemble more than 100,000 Believers globally in a life-changing effectual prayer.
Themed "Rising Above This Moment Through Effectual Prayer", this transformative Summit will be globally accessible online through the Global Prayer Works Platform.
With...
The fastest-growing Ghanaian local language television channel, Onua TV, is set to celebrate its first anniversary this month. Onua TV is a subsidiary of Ghana’s leading media company, Media General and positioned to project Ghanaian values and culture.
Onua TV was launched on August 10, 2019, in the Ashanti Region during...
B&FT yesterday held its fifth in the series of ‘Ghana’s Most Respected CEOs Breakfast Series’ with the theme ‘Bringing the Economy Back to Life: The Role of Banking and Finance’, where the Country Director for Deloitte Ghana, David Kwadwo Owusu, who was a panel speaker noted that with the...
The issue of Cocoa Produce Buying Companies (PBCs) adjusting their scales to cheat cocoa farmers of their due is not only sad but unconscionable.
A private broadcasting station’s latest investigative documentary ‘Missing Kilos’ exposed the stealing of cocoa beans by clerks in licenced cocoa buying companies of the country. The...