Insurance and commerce partners, Hollard Ghana and Melcom, have announced the extension of the ‘Shop and Insure’ collaboration beyond the current in-store Hollard on-the-go booths in selected Melcom stores, to e-commerce on www.melcom.com. This move will enable more Ghanaians to conveniently use digital means to access financial security on...
Twelve Small and Medium Enterprises (female-owned businesses) in the Western Region are to benefit from SNV Cohort 3 Incubation Programme. The beneficiaries, four from each of the three partner hubs namely; Duapa Werkspace, University of Mines and Technology (UMaT) U-Hub and Social Entrepreneurship are under Result four of the GrEEn...
Guaranty Trust Bank (Ghana) Limited has opened its 35th branch in Wa, as part of efforts to bring exceptional banking solutions and services closer to residence and workers of the Upper West Region. The newly opened branch, which is located at the Fongo Wapani Residential Area, is set to...
The Ghana Institute of Procurement and Supply (GIPS) is organising a capacity building workshop on writing of specifications and bill of quantity for members and the business community. The three-day workshop, on the theme: ‘Effective Development and Writing of Specifications and Bill of Quantity’ comes off from Wednesday, May 25...
Opportunity International Savings and Loans Limited (Opportunity International), in collaboration with the VISA Foundation, is implementing an Economic Recovery and Rebuild Initiative (ERRI) project to help reduce the impact of COVID-19 on businesses of its existing clients through an interest buy-down and guarantee facility. With funding support from the VISA...
May 19 was Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), a Day set aside to raise awareness about digital access and inclusion. The Day, which is celebrated every year on the third Thursday of May, was first observed in 2012 with the objective of ensuring accessibility is built into the product...
seeks further capital in addition to US$35mn raised in 2021 to expand forges ahead with 10,000 free cervical cancer screenings Indigenous health tech startup mPharma has set the ambitious medium-term target of building the continent's biggest primary care Health Management Organisation (HMO) over the course of the next three...
Government has commenced a nationwide stakeholder engagement on its flagship entrepreneurship and job creation programme, YouStart, ahead of its scheduled launch next month. It will be recalled that government, last year during the presentation of the 2022 Budget and economic statement, announced plans to roll an ambitious GH¢10billion programme for...
Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), together with the University of Sierra Leone and Associate for Change (AFC), have partnered to build up the use of ‘play-based’ approach at the early childhood education through teacher capacity building. In view of this, a workshop was organised to launch the...
Outdoors ‘Yaa Chat Box’ Metropolitan Life Insurance has launched its new life insurance product called the Family Financial Wellness Plan which is designed to provide income for the immediate family of the deceased, or in the event of critical illness, permanent or temporary disability of the policy holder. Acting CEO...