Stanbic Bank Ghana has presented 50 laptops to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) as part of the university’s Support One Needy Student, One Laptop (SONSOL) project - an initiative that aims to help brilliant but needy students. Presenting the laptops to some students at a symbolic...
The Minister of Transport, Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, has declared the Sunyani Airport a ‘fit for purpose’ facility after concluding his last inspection tour at the facility on Tuesday, July 19, 2022 with a team of experts from the Ghana Airports Company (GAC), Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) and Ghana...
The Cedi slipped to a fresh low against the dollar this week, trading at 8.129 from 8.09 at last week’s close. The Ghanian parliament this week approved a $750m loan agreement with Afreximbank to finance infrastructure projects and to bolster the country’s FX reserves. In a bid to avert...
As a further major step to strengthen relations, President Joe Biden plans to host African leaders in the White House in mid-December. According to reports, the US-African summit will discuss the emerging global order, changing geopolitical and economic issues and also offer enormous funds for various development projects as...
Enterprise Insurance pioneered the Same Day Claims Payment in Ghana’s Insurance industry in March 2018. With the introduction of this service, the company made a bold statement to customers and the public about their financial robustness and readiness to go the extra mile to meet the expectations of customers. On...
Global food supply disruption is stoking protests across Africa. In Nigeria, bread makers suspended production in anger at the soaring cost of flour, sugar and diesel. Kenyans took to the streets, demanding the frontrunners in August’s presidential election commit to workable solutions to ease the cost of living. In...
As part of measures to get rid of fake and illegal agrochemicals on the market, CropLife Ghana has taken steps to coordinate with Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) to identify hotspot areas where some of these products are heavily distributed across the country. The identification of these hotspot areas where the...
The Netherlands Ambassador to Ghana, Jeroen Verheul, has called for public-private collaboration to help provide funding to accelerate green transition in the country. According to him, replacing fossil fuel electricity generation with renewable energy would be too expensive now - but it is steadily getting cheaper. Ambassador Verheul said the Netherlands...
Government will on Monday July 25 sign an agreement with Thelo DB consortium to enter into a US$3.2billion transformational Western Railway Line Project agreement. The signing ceremony will take place at the ministerial programme to be hosted by the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCFTA) secretariat at Labadi Beach...
Amid capital flight from the stock market - induced by the increasing interest rate on the fixed income market, the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) is expected to continue on its current downward trajectory in the third quarter, SEM Capital has said. The GSE’s benchmark Composite Index (GSE-CI) closed the second...