For Africa, the COVID-19 pandemic is turning into a wake up call to find better ways to industrialise, chief amongst them being access to reliable, cheap and clean energy
As global markets think of the post-COVID-19 world and how the pandemic will reshape business models worldwide, African countries are coming...
Equatorial Guinea has announced that it is fully complying with its production cuts obligations under the record OPEC++ global oil cuts deal reached in April 2020 and which took effect on the 1st of May.
While announcing the country’s compliance, Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons, . Gabriel Mbaga Obiang Lima,...
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has become one of the biggest threats to the global economy and financial markets. The effect has already been felt in a wide range of energy markets, including coal and gas – but its impact on oil markets is exceptionally grave due to the constraint...
The National Coordinator of the One-District, One-Factory (1D1F) programme, Mrs. Gifty Ohene-Konadu, has inspected progress of a new factory being set up by beverage giant, Kasapreko, in the Ashanti Regional town of Tanoso (Atwima Nwabiagya District).
Set up on a 10,000 metre square property, the yet-to-be-commissioned structure, which is almost...
Absa Bank Ghana, in collaboration with Genser Energy Ghana and its partners namely Barak Fund and Africa 50, has made a donation of personal protective equipment (PPE) and other key medical supplies to the Ghana Armed Forces COVID-19 Task Force & the Ashanti Regional Hospital, to complement government’s effort...
When India’s government announced, with four hours’ notice, a nationwide three-week lockdown to stem the spread of the coronavirus, millions of the country’s poorest citizens faced the risk of hunger and destitution. Many migrant laborers, suddenly jobless, walked hundreds of miles from cities to their native villages. There, too,...
Gender is an uncomfortable conversation to have in this dispensation. I am not a gender expert and so I'm however trying to unlearn many lessons that have internalised as I grow.
Shaykh Azhar Nasser’s once tweeted:“Teach your daughter economic independence so in the future, she can have a partner, not...
In emerging markets, limited ICT infrastructure can compound the challenges of remote working amid coronavirus-related social distancing and lockdown measures. Nevertheless, broadly successful outcomes may lead businesses to consider expanding or formalizing work from home arrangements once the effects of the pandemic have subsided.
There are a number of potential advantages associated...
Chinese power company TBEA has donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) worth GH¢100,000 to the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo), as part of measures to support the power transmitter in fighting spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
As the world continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, several corporate organisations in the...