CEO-Margins ID Group, Moses K. Baiden, has revealed that by next year Ghana will launch a digital version of the universal national ID, the Ghana Card, to complement the physical one. According to him, just like the e-passport profile on the Ghana Card, the electronic ID profile is also...
The Bank of Ghana has announced winners of the first-ever e-Cedi hackathon.
The competition aimed to encourage innovation and build partnerships around the central bank's new digital currency, the e-Cedi.
Out of 88 initial applicants, 10 finalists were selected to demonstrate their e-Cedi solutions and compete for the prize money. The...
Christmas is here again! For Ghanaians, it's not just a festive season but a time when the world comes to Ghana to experience the country’s cultural diversity, hospitality, music and food. The GenZs will say “it’s a Detty December!”
With the elevation of the tourism value chain driven by the...
The former First Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Baroness Arlene Isobel Foster, has charged the 2023 graduating class of the Accra Business School (ABS) to use the knowledge and skills acquired during their studies to “find the remedy” to various societal challenges in their chosen fields.
She was speaking at...
…a welcoming December atmosphere
The Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA), in partnership with the Ghana Exim Bank, the Ghana Trade Fair Company and the Ghana Airports Company Limited, has announced a month-long family-oriented bazaar, Akwaaba Village, as part of its December in GH activities. This exciting initiative is designed to offer...
The European Union Office in Ghana has announced the opening of application for the EU-West Africa Fusion Artist and Residency Expo.
The event, which will be hosted in Ghana at Kokrobite in Accra, brings together artists from thematic areas, including musicians, fashion designers and visual artists such as painters, photographers,...
Women in Rural and Community Banks (RCBs) have been encouraged to be diligent and steadfast in their quest to navigate through the professional and leadership terrain at the just-ended maiden ARB National Women’s Conference and Ladies’ Association inauguration in Sunyani.
This, according to the association, would ensure massive women participation...
With Africa’s increasing adoption and use of new technologies, and recent interest in generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), experts at the 2023 Data Protection Africa Summit have stressed the need for more efficient data protection and privacy regimes.
They joined voices in calling on data controllers, users and processors of personal...
Consumer inflation saw a significant drop in November 2023 - dropping to 26.4 percent from the previous month's 35.2 percent. The 8.8 percentage point decline falls in line with market forecasts, providing a welcome respite amid high and persistent inflation rates.
This remarkable downturn comes as a favourable outcome -...
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) Governor, Dr. Ernest Addison, has emphasiSed the central bank’s commitment to fighting cybercrime in the banking industry while also promoting financial inclusion through digital solutions.
Dr. Addison made the remarks at GCB Bank’s launch of a new mobile banking application called ‘RECODED’. He stated that...