Fidelity Bank Ghana in partnership with the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service (GPS) has provided forensic training for 50 bank staff who in turn will train other frontline and control function staff. Fidelity Bank is the first bank in Ghana to provide its staff with...
Members of the Upper West Regional Shipper Committee have been sensitised on ways in which they can benefit from the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement, AfCFTA, with a focus on how they can successfully register their products under the agreement. The meeting, which was held in Wa on 19th May 2022,...
Burkina Faso has emerged as the preferred destination for transit cargoes cleared from Ghana’s ports in the first quarter of 2022 and 2021, overtaking Côte D’Ivoire for the number one spot. Côte D’Ivoire is now the second preferred destination, with Mali, Togo, Niger, Nigeria, Benin and Guinea making the...
Some Ghanaian celebrities drawn from the worlds of the arts, entertainment, sports and social media producers have called on the Commissioner of Insurance, Dr. Justice Ofori, to let insurance companies design products that will help protect their professions. They made this call when the insurance regular organised a workshop on...
Ghanaian educationist, writer and economist Professor Stephen Adei has said corruption is pervasive in emerging and transition nations - not because their people are different from people elsewhere, but because conditions such as nature of the law and leadership are ripe for it. Ghana the country loses over US$4billion...
The astronomical rise of inflation in recent times is negatively impacting the cost of private health insurance in the country, CEO of Acacia Health Insurance Dr. Dan Armooh has said. Consumer inflation rapidly hiked to 23.6 percent in April, the highest since 2004, from 19.4 percent in March this year, He...
As part of government’s flagship initiative One District, One Factory (1D1F), Universal Merchant Bank (UMB) - a partner bank to the initiative, pledging about US$100million - gets ready to unveil its sponsored factories numbering about 10 to 15 by the close of this year, as they are in the...
A select number of Ghana-based companies which are engaged in transacting business with their counterparts in other African nations will be honoured at the 16th Ghana-Africa Business Awards ceremony that has been scheduled to take place in Accra on Friday 27th May 2022. The Ghana-Africa Business Awards Scheme was instituted...
One of the fastest-growing retail brands in electronic and home appliance products in Ghana, The Makers Electronics Company Limited, has won the Outstanding Customer Service Award, Electronics category, at the 2022 Ghana-West Africa Business Excellence Awards. The 5th edition of the awards organised by KN Unique Communications, held at the...
Managing Director for Africa Environmental Sanitation Consult (AFESC) and lecturer at the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), Abena Asomaning Antwi, has launched her three books titled: ‘Who Moved My Heels’, ‘Purposeful Chaos’ and ‘Chicken Soup for Your Soul’. The books, which talk about entrepreneurship, autobiography of the author and...