The Bank of Ghana (BoG) says the move to introduce an online payment module into operations of the Collateral Registry has introduced efficiency and enhanced access to credit for individuals and businesses. Speaking at the 2020 Annual Bankers’ Dinner (Governor’s Day), BoG Governor Dr. Ernest Addison said the successes gained...
Ghana’s 2020 election is fast approaching. In Africa, Ghana has been touted as a model of democracy and good governance. Since 1992, the country has a record of seven successive relatively peaceful elections that have culminated into three successful transfers of power from one party to another in 2001,...
Social enterprises role in responding to the pandemic, particularly in the health and education sector, has been phenomenal, hence, the need for the draft social enterprises policy currently before cabinet to be passed for the sector to grow and achieve more, CEO of Social Enterprise (SE) Ghana, Amma Lartey...
This was supposed to be the year Europe and Africa redefined their relationship. In March, the European Commission unveilled its vision for a “comprehensive strategy with Africa”, intended to kick-start a six-month consultation process which would culminate at the European Union-African Union summit in October in an agreement on...
Digital literacy as a fourth literacy has become necessary to talk about in education and eLearning. Although reading, writing, and mathematics are respected as the basis of being literate, literacy in this day is not complete if a person is not capable of accessing and creating digital information. Education as...
Creativity is an act that is required and admired in all life’s endeavours. It is the bedrock of innovation and inventiveness. At all points in time what makes a child or an adult unique in all spheres of life is their ability to create something out of anything within their...
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), Yofi Grant, has featured on the Y Leaderboard Series to inspire the youths of Ghana. Among the many interesting things he shared with host Rev. Erskine and listeners of Y107. 9, Mr. Grant touched on his upbringing,...
When customers feel trapped in bad experience There are also situations in which the customer feels locked in because he or she really appreciates some aspect of the experience. It might be other aspects of the experience that puts the customer off—making the one want out of the encounter....
The Organisation for Strategic Development in Africa (OSDA), a not-for-profit institution, has organised an eight-day training workshop on human rights and hate-speech, dubbed ‘Power to Change'. The project, organised under the auspices of Hate Fighters Network and co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, aims to strengthen the role...
The National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) has disproved claims that their outfit has disbursed financial support to unscrupulous persons instead of traders whose shops were destroyed by fire at the Odawna Market. At a meeting with leadership and some traders of the Odawna market, the Executive Director of...