The COVID-19 pandemic, now nearly four months old in Africa, has ushered in an unprecedented interconnected health, social and economic crisis across Africa as it has in most of the world. It has struck every country with varied impacts on different aspects of life.
By mid-June more than 260,000 cases...
The Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) said on Tuesday that its annual pre-export financing will be raised as usual through a syndicated loan, denying a report its usual lenders had declined to underwrite the risk.
Loan Pricing Corporation, a unit of financial data firm Refinitiv, reported last week that financing for...
Yesterday, the Business and Financial Times (B&FT) held a webinar under the theme: ‘Managing an anxious work force during and post COVID-19’ with human resource experts and the overwhelming verdict was that open and honest communication is crucial.
Director of Human Resource, Vodafone Ghana, Hannah Ashiokai Akrong observed that the...
Ghana’s fight against the novel coronavirus has received a welcome boost of support from the Global Quality Standards Programme (GQSP) for the development of standards for personal protective equipment (PPEs), sanitizers and related items.
The UNIDO-GQSP collaboration has developed a national standard for alcohol-based hand sanitizer and a publicly available...
Parents and guardians have been urged to provide their children with nose masksnd alcohol-based hand sanitisers to complement the central government's efforts to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
Giving the advice on the sideline of a disinfection exercise in St James International School, Lashibi, in the...
Being born into a royal family and the son of chief, one would have thought that it would be a life of privilege and luxury. But for Alhassan Andani, Chief Executive of Stanbic Bank Ghana, the experience thought him valuable lessons that have influenced his career and his general...
Employers have been urged to feed employees with the right information especially during this COVID-19 period.
Director, Human Resource of Vodafone Ghana, Hannah Ashiokai Akrong, noted that businesses should put in place proper communications channel. “Organizations need to understand what the anxieties are for their employees as well as marry...
As part of its promise to continuously provide financial and business skills to female entrepreneurs, Africa’s largest retail bank, Access Bank, has unveiled the second edition of its “Womenpreneur Pitch-a-ton” campaign.
The “Womenpreneur Pitch-a-ton” Africa 2020 Campaign is designed to provide female owned businesses across Africa an opportunity to access...
…in managing workers’ anxiety
For organisations to effectively manage the anxieties of their staff, coming from fear of losing their jobs or dealing with salary cuts and other inconvenient situations emanating from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, open and honest communication, as well as responsible leadership are key, human...
Even though businesses globally have had their share of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, a survey conducted by the Ghana National Chamber of Commerce and Industry has established that the most hit businesses in Ghana are in the SME sector.
CEO of Ghana National Chamber of Commerce and Industry,...