Standard Chartered Bank, in collaboration with mPharma, has presented portable Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) equipment as well as diagnostic extraction kits and tubes to the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), to aid the mass testing of COVID-19 cases in Ghana.
The donation is part of a...
Abiola Bawuah, founder of The Abiola Bawuah Foundation (ABF), has been nominated for the Women Empowerment category of the 2020 Millennium Excellence Awards. This comes as a result of her outstanding support for women empowerment by empowering girls, especially in the rural communities.
Currently, over 70 girls in the Ashanti,...
Kona Agro Processing Limited, an indigenous cashew processing company at Awisa near Wenchi in the Bono Region, has entered into a joint venture with Australian Dried Fruits and the Nuts Trading entity to scale up cashew processing in the country.
The transaction involves establishing a new 10,000 metric tonne (MT)...
International impact investor Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P) has said it is looking forward to supporting more small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) that are vital to Ghana’s long-term economic growth. The firm has invested €3million in a leading private healthcare provider, New Crystal Health Services (NCHS), to make quality...
First National Bank Ghana has activated its Accelerated Support for Pandemic Intervention and Relief Effort (ASPIRE) programme to assist the government and people of Ghana in their fight against COVID-19. With the initiative, First National Bank Ghana is supporting local entrepreneurs to produce high quality Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)...
For the first time in three years, the countries fishing sector has shown signs of a promising future as figures from the Ghana Statistical Service indicate it has finally recorded growth after a period of contraction.
The fishing sector has been in abysmal form since 2017, when growth contracted to...
Egg glut pushes farmers to slash price by 20%
500,000 crates of eggs set to go bad
Farmers ready to lay-off workers
One Day, One Egg campaign unveiled
Poultry farmers are pushing government to take a bold decision to regulate the importation of frozen and other finished poultry...
The Association of Oil Marketing Companies (OMC) has said that by end of this week its members will increase petroleum prices by a minimum of 14 percent.
Kwaku Agyemang Duah, the association’s chairman, told the B&FT that the move is due to some significant events during June’s first pricing window...
GCB Bank Ltd has. donated a number of Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) to some major health facilities and hospitals around the country as part of its commitment toward controlling the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19).
The PPEs donated by the bank include safety goggles, coveralls, Wellington boots, sanitisers and rubbing alcohol...
Facebook and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement are partnering to launch #AfricaTogether – a digital campaign and two-day festival on June 4 and 5 featuring artists from across Africa to encourage continued vigilance against COVID-19.
With more than 100,000 COVID-19 cases confirmed on the continent and containment...