The Stanford Seed Transformation Network (STN) Ghana has awarded full scholarships to three brilliant but needy tertiary students to avoid deferral of courses until completion. The full scholarships provided by the newly created STN scholarship fund covers tuition fees, accommodation and other academic-related expenses of the three students selected...
ASA Savings and Loans Limited, Kpone Business Centre, in collaboration with Firdalh Diagnostic Centre, has organised a free health screening.
The beneficiaries are the client and communities in which the company operates. 162 people -‘men, women and children’ - were screened and tested in Hepatitis B, malaria, blood pressure, as...
At Rand Merchant Bank (RMB), the corporate and investment banking arm of FirstRand Group of which First National Bank is a member, we are continually driving investment into enhancing the Technology, Media and Telecoms (TMT) infrastructure on the continent - in order to foster technological innovation and unlock economic...
Rising prices coming from global shocks
Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Ernest Addison, has denied suggestions and assertions that the current inflation targetting framework - which extends much focus on demand-side factors - is unable to stand the test of time; hence the economy’s inability to...
as AU makes case for PAPSS
Economies of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) lose US$5billion in transactional cost to third-party foreign payment systems each year, the African Union Commissioner for Economic Development, Trade, Tourism and Industry, Albert Muchanga, has disclosed.
Mr. Muchanga, who was speaking to the B&FT...
Capital market regulators in the sub-region have given the clearest indication yet of their commitment to the West African Capital Markets Integration (WACMI) project.
Introduced in 2013, the project has its overriding goal as the establishment of a harmonised regulatory environment for the issuance and trading of financial securities, as...
Trade and Industry Minister Alan Kyerematen says the flagship programmes being implemented by government - which include the Planting for Food and Jobs and One District One Factory (1D1F) initiatives - alone cannot create the millions of jobs needed to solve the country’s unemployment challenges.
The minister’s warning is coming...
The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has held a day’s sensitisation workshop for commercial drivers aimed at equipping them with the requisite knowledge on petroleum pricing and quality.
The day’s event comes on the back of recent continuous hikes in petroleum price on the global market due to ripple-effects of the...
Contrary to fears that implementation of the Electronic Transfer Levy (E-levy) would collapse the business of mobile money agents, there seem to be a new revenue stream for them - namely cash-in transactions, which have become the preference of customers.
This comes as a result of some customers’ desperate attempt...
Mr. Gilbert Abeiku Aggrey popularly known as 'Abeiku Santana' has been unveiled as a brand ambassador for the Adom Group of Companies, a leading Real Estate Developer.
The partnership would see the 2021 Radio and Television Personality award winner become the new advertising face for the Adom Group, whose subsidiaries...