Government Statistician, Prof. Samuel Kobina Annim, is making a strong case for more attention to be paid to the microfinance sector as statistics show that it is the best avenue to bridge financial exclusion. Data from the Ghana Statistical Service show that 2 out of 5 people living in the...
… interoperability sees over 940% growth within a year The value of transactions recorded on the country’s largest payment systems platform, mobile money, has seen an astronomic rise over a one-year period, with the interoperability push even recording more than nine times the value recorded last year, indicating the pandemic...
Cyber security analyst and CEO of Slamm Technologies, Samuel Boateng, has called on public and private institutions alike to engage the services of indigenous information technology security experts as there are economic and ethical benefits to be gained from such engagements. This, he argued, makes sense as there is an...
The Vice President , Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has inaugurated  and handed over an ultra-modern Infectious Diseases Treatment Centre at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra. Originally conceived in 2014 at the height of the Ebola crisis, the 25-bed facility, which also houses a Command Centre to coordinate the activities of...
COA Research and Manufacturing Company Limited has launched COA Mixture and inaugurated an ultra-modern factory at Wusorkrom in Abura Asebu Kwamankese District in the Central Region. “On September 10,  2020, the Food and Drugs Authourity (FDA) gave us market authorization to market COA FS as COA Mixture since it is...
Following the runaway success of the inaugural edition and in line with the commitment of the CEO of the McDan Group of Companies, Daniel McKorley, to see the economy transformed through an entrepreneurial revolution, the second season of the McDan Entrepreneurship Challenge has been officially launched. At a ceremony in...
The ARB Apex Bank together with the General Managers and CEOs of all rural and community banks across the country are holding an annual two-day managers’ conference at the Volta Serene Hotel in Ho which begins today. This year’s conference which is the nineteenth in the series is on the...
Minister of Aviation, Joseph Kofi Adda, has said one of the challenges facing the aviation sector is the high cost of flying in the sub region and government would be happy if the introduction of Gulf carrier, Qatar Airways, as the newest airline into the Ghanaian fold, would stir up competition which...
A new World Bank report titled “Youth Employment Programs in Ghana: Options for Effective Policy Making and Implementation” identifies agribusiness, entrepreneurship, apprenticeship, construction, tourism and sports as key sectors that can offer increased employment opportunities for Ghanaian youth. It also calls for more investments in career guidance and counseling, work-based...
Studies have shown that leadership is required at all levels of establishment governance to ensure achievement of corporate goals (Yon, Kim, Ko, & Park, 2016). It has been established that through leaders, major decisions of organisations are carried out and that, through leadership, managers affect employee’s behaviour in an...