Ecobank Group has been certified as the best place to work in Africa in 2022, for exhibiting the highest standards of excellence in Human Resources (HR) practices and employees’ experience. The bank recently won the highly coveted ‘Best Place to Work in Africa 2022 ‘award from the Best Place to...
The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) is calling for measures that ensure financial institutions are not made worse-off as a result of their participation in the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP). In a statement, the AGI says it envisages liquidity constraints banks will face under the DDEP and its impact...
Businesses could miss out on the opportunity to be competitive in the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) market due to exorbitant interest rates, founder of SAS Group of Companies and Agbogbomefia of the Asogli State, Togbe Afede XIV, has said. With access and cost of capital ranking high among...
Engen and Vivo Energy have announced a combination of their respective African businesses to create one of Africa’s largest energy distribution companies. The combined group will have over 3,900 service stations and more than two billion litres of storage capacity across 27 African countries. Engen is the clear market leader...
… for over 1.4bn Africans Fortek, a burgeoning Ghanaian financial platform services provider, has announced a strategic partnership with Codebase Technologies - one of the fastest-growing open API banking solutions providers in the world. The two companies share a vision of accelerating digitisation to stimulate entrepreneurship in Africa and grow the...
…OBG signs MoU with the Africa Medical Information Centre for new sectoral analysis Ghana’s plans to transform its health sector through new partnerships, pioneering technology, infrastructural developments and policies aimed at extending the reach of services into rural areas will be mapped out in a forthcoming report by the global research...
The Cedi appreciated against the dollar, trading at 12.05 from 12.25 at last week’s close as FX demand eased. The Bank of Ghana sold only $9.2m of dollars in the spot market last week, compared to $40m at the previous Jan. 30 sale. Ghana is sweetening its debt swap...
I came across a news item in which the Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) disclosed that illegal mining is a major factor in the increase of HIV/AIDS infections in the country. The Director-General of the GAC, Dr. Kyeremeh Atuahene, also indicated that tourism may increase infection rates in the country....
Telecom giant MTN Ghana has joined the global community to mark Africa Safer Internet Day-2023 with a call on Senior High School students to observe cybersecurity safety measures to ensure their safety online. Head of Corporate Affairs-MTN Ghana, Angela Adu-Ampofo, interacting with the elective ICT students of Osu Presbyterian Senior High School (Osu PRESEC) in Accra stated that apart from the voice, data and...
The CEOs and Board Chairs of Specified Entities are currently convening at Kwahu-Nkwatia in the Eastern Region for the 2023 Annual Stakeholder Engagement. Enroute their destination, leaders of Specified Entities were pictured seated in STC buses which conveyed them from Accra. These leaders seem to be making a deliberate attempt to...