Guaranty Trust Bank (Ghana) Limited has for the second consecutive year won the coveted “Best Digital Banking – Ghana 2018” award by Capital Finance International (cfi), United Kingdom, the publisher of the reputable cfi.co, a business, economics and finance magazine. The award is an endorsement of the Bank’s strength...
Dear ECG, I beg to propose that you put measures in place to ensure your meters become easily accessible to the longsuffering masses of our people. The trouble and financial strain they go through in trying to acquire your meters are avoidable and unnecessary. I propose you decentralise the sale...
Mr. Boakye Agyarko, the Minister of Energy, says government has signed an oil exploration contract with the ExxonMobil Company to explore for oil in the Deeperwater Cape Three Points Oilfield because it has the capacity to deliver. He said government’s policy for the upstream oil industry is to undertake aggressive...
As a policy direction to help revamp the local poultry industry, government has restricted the importation of frozen chicken drastically, Dr. Gyiele Nurah - Minister of State at the Presidency in charge of Food and Agriculture - has announced. The ‘ban’ on imported frozen chicken, he indicated, is in response...
MTN recorded a strong performance in its revenues in the year 2017. Strong growth in revenue was up by 23.3% and underpinned by data and digital revenue growth. This was made known when the company shared its financial performance for 2017 and strategic operational plans for 2018 with the media...
Some disgruntled customers of ASN-Financial Services Limited (ASN-FSL), a licenced Finance House, are unable to access their investments with the indigenous institution - a situation further compounded by lack of information from the institution or the central bank. “We had a meeting in March last year, when they promised...
Government has cleared the greater part of GH¢1.2billion owed the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) - leaving an outstanding GH¢181million that will be cleared before end of the year, Deputy-Health Minister Kingsley Aboakye Gyedu has disclosed. The debt inherited by the NPP government affected drugs supply and other logistics needed...
Statistics have revealed that 69 percent of fraud cases recorded in 2017 in Ghana had insider involvement, Mr. Alex Oppong - Principal Consultant, e-Crime Bureau - has stated. He said 31 percent of fraud cases within the 2017 period were conducted by external perpetrators, which did not include any direct...
Banks must forge a common front rather than see themselves as competitors when it comes to the issue of combatting cybercrime, Mrs. Mansa Nettey-Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Standard Chartered Bank, has said. Speaking at the bank’s first-ever forum on digital banking and cybersecurity in Accra, Mrs. Nettey said cybersecurity is...
A campaign by the Parliamentary Press Corps (PPC) for the passage of the Right to Information Bill has received a major boost as Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu assured that the Bill will be introduced to Parliament before it rises on 23 March, 2018. According to him there was...