The 2014 Nobel Prize Laureate and founder of Global March against Child Labour (GMACL), Kailash Satyarthi, has launched the one hundred million campaign to protect children in Accra last week Friday. The one hundred million campaign, is a global campaign that seeks to withdraw 100 million child labourers out of...
The Northern Regional office of the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI) has kicked start the implementation of the one district one factory (1F1F) programme with the establishment of implementation teams across the 26 Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies of the region. The teams are to oversee the work of...
Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo, has said the time is ripe for Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire to develop strategies that will bring new life to the cocoa value chain and improve wellbeing of farmers. “At the economic management level, we are looking at a possible insurance system for our farmers. We...
The Ghana Free Zones Authority (GFZA), a government agency that licences and regulates the activities of Free Zone Enterprises (FZEs), has said it has adopted some workable strategies which are already being implemented. The primary objective is to change the face of GFZB in the eyes of its valued investors:...
The Reinsurance sector in the country remains untapped, with a lot of room for growth in the provision of reinsurance capacity in the areas of oil and gas, marine, aviation and specialist liability risk. Mr. Justice Yaw Ofori, Commissioner of the National Insurance Commission (NIC) who disclosed this at the...
…as ACCOSCA holds historic conference in Accra The West African Block of the African Confederation of Cooperative Savings and Credit Association (ACCOSCA), has held its first-ever conference in Accra. The conference, held between March 12 and 14, was on the theme ‘Regional integration for cooperative sustainable growth’, with participants drawn from...
A nationwide campaign on www.change.org to get the National Consumer Protection Law passed has started across the country. The campaign is gathering 20,000 electronic petitions  urging the president to prioritise passage of the Consumer Protection law this year. Launching the campaign, Country Coordinator for CUTS Ghana - Mr. Appiah Kusi Adomako,...
The ever-growing Smartphone manufacturer, Infinix Mobile is set to open its first “Infinix Exclusive Shop” at the Achimota Mall in Accra, Ghana soon. Infinix Mobile in Ghana has mostly had its presence by using retail mobile phone outlets and online but with the Infinix Exclusive shop, the company aims to...
The Chief Executive Officer of GN Bank, Issah Adams, has said that the bank is poised to meet the GH¢400million minimum capital requirement set by the Bank of Ghana (BoG) by third quarter of 2018. “We have secured about GH¢120million out of the GH¢400million required by BoG by quarter one...
The Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, is likely to appear before Parliament this week to explain why the 2018 GETFund allocation formula failed to provide a breakdown for each institution. “The Minister of Education is responsible for GETFund, so he may be the one we will have to call...