KEK Insurance Brokers Group made history again a fortnight ago when the company topped at the Enterprise Life Planners, Conference and Awards ceremony held in Accra. It is an annual performance awards to recognize hardworking life planners in the broker channel of selling life products for Enterprise Life Insurance. KEK’s...
There are different kinds of people in your life. All these classes of people add value to your life on different levels and in different forms. The first category of people, ‘SEERS’ add value to our lives by adding to our numbers. They are a numerical account of the people...
World Bank Chief Economist Carmen Reinhart has said the coronavirus pandemic is turning into a major economic crisis, and warned of the possibility of a financial crisis emerging. “This did not start as a financial crisis, but it is morphing into a major economic crisis with very serious financial consequences,”...
Dear readers, I have decided to give a new twist to the Risk Watch by sharing sober reflections about some general life events which shows that it is indeed a small world. Far from being a preacher, it is these reflections that makes us sit up and think again...
Executive Director of the Association of Rural Banks-Ghana, Mrs. Comfort Owusu, has advised rural banks’ General Managers and CEOs to quickly adapt to change - particularly in the business environment. According to her, the external business environment and government regulatory policies have direct impacts on their activities as bankers, and...
MTN Foundation has invested a total of US$15 million in 150 projects in Ghana over the past 12 years. These investments cover areas such education, healthcare and economic empowerment. On education, the foundation has 87 projects and these are on Information Communications Technology (ICT), dormitories for some Senior High Schools,...
The U.S. Embassy in Accra and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have formally launched the U.S. State Department Bureau of African Affairs’ University Partnerships Initiative (UPI) at an in-person and virtual launch ceremony on the KNUST campus on Wednesday October 14, 2020. The event was presided...
PZ Cussons, as part of the Global Handwashing Day celebrations, has donated handwashing stations and Carex and Camel products worth GH¢50,000 to some orphanages across the country. The products donated included hand sanitisers, antibacterial soap and hand wash. Global Handwashing Day is a global advocacy day dedicated to increasing awareness...
Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Henry Kokofu, has underscored the importance of institutional collaboration between mining industry players and the environmental regulator. Mr. Kokofu, who assumed office in August 2020, has being engaging various stakeholders to acquaint himself with his new role and to gain a deeper...
AngloGold Ashanti’s Obuasi Mine has said its effort to enhance agriculture development in the Obuasi municipality is being undermined by illegal mining activities, or galamsey, despite committing US$620,000 into local agricultural programmes. Senior Sustainability Manager, of AngloGold Ashanti-Obuasi Mine, Emmanuel Baidoo, said the galamsey activities are happening close to the...