… Pegs 10 cent per kilowatts hour as maximum selling price Barely two weeks after the commissioning of the nation’s first Hydro-Solar Hybrid power generating system, which includes a 5 Megawatts (MW) floating solar system, the first in West Africa, the Bui Power Authority (BPA) has been inducted into...
The Bank of Ghana is preparing directives to regulate unclaimed balances and provide consumer protection requirements for digital financial services and products, Governor of the Central Bank, Dr. Ernest Addison, has said. This means digital financial service providers would have a clear direction as to how to treat monies in locked on...
The central bank is envisaging tough times ahead for the banking sector, as Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) are set to rise further and banks’ capital is expected to be eroded due to the impact of COVID-19 - but it has also devised strategies to ensure a robust financial sector that...
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has introduced a raft of guidelines and measures including sanctions, increased sensitisation and a regulatory forum to deter banks from engaging in money laundering and terrorism financing activities. The European Union (EU) in May 2020 placed Ghana on the list of countries that are seen...
We are thrilled to announce that Zindi will host the second UmojaHack Africa on the weekend of 27 March 2021. The virtual machine learning hackathon will take place on www.zindi.africa and will be open to every university in Africa. Students will compete in teams across the continent to solve...
The COVID-19 crisis, and the impact it has had on learning across the world, has highlighted many of the digital disparities which exist in today’s world. At a time when many of the world’s students have shifted from physical to digital, we were also faced with the hard truth...
The population of every country is deemed as its most precious asset. Besides, the natural and capital resources, human capital holds the key to lift the fortunes of all nations. Human beings left without any conscious effort to empower themselves tended to harm the very society that failed to...
The automotive industry has been boosted by the signatures of automobile giants like Volkswagen, Toyota, Suzuki, Renault and Nissan. Meanwhile, before the introduction of the giant automakers, there was also SinoTruck from China which has been equipped and started assembling here for the local market - in a country where...
Do you believe that productivity is synonymous with more work? If you spend a lot of hours focusing on one thing, does it mean you have been productive with it? Writer Charles Duhigg defines productivity as “making certain choices in certain ways” that moves us from being “merely busy”...
... calls for local production of components   By Thomas-Moore ADINGO ([email protected]) The global solar energy market is growing in leaps and bounds, with its value expected to reach US$223.3 billion by 2026 from US$52.5billion in 2018 at annual growth rate of 20.5 percent - but with the country only...