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JLD & MB Legal Consultancy (JLD & MB) has once again been named Ghana Law Firm of the Year at the prestigious Chambers Africa Awards 2022.  The Firm was also selected as National Law Firm of the Year Ghana by IFLR1000 in September 2021. Chambers and Partners is an independent...
ION Africa Business, organisers of the Responsible Business and leadership Excellence Awards (RBLEA™) have opened nominations for its maiden awards ceremony. The awards which comes off on Friday, April 29, 2022 at the Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra cuts across the Banking, Aviation, Information Technology, Telecommunication, Manufacturing and Retail sectors. Speaking...
The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has encouraged Ghanaians to embrace the E-levy for development to thrive in the country. He said the government is committed to making judicious use of the revenue that will be accrued from the E-levy. He explained that the revenue will be used to embark on massive...
The Member of Parliament (PM) for the Ningo-Prampram Constituency, Samuel Dzata George, has called for the creation of an administrative region for the five fast-growing densely-populated Dangme constituencies along the East Coast of the Greater Accra Region. According to the MP, industrial and residential expansion in the area, coupled with...
HOPin Academy, a Tamale-based social organisation, is set to support some 50 entrepreneurs with seed funding of GH¢2,000 each in a bid to enhance the entrepreneurship ecosystem in northern Ghana. The grant funding of GH¢100,000 is from the State Chancellery of North-Rhine Westphalia under a project dubbed ‘The Grow Northern...
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications, Dr. Ing. Kenneth Ashigbey, is calling for a paradigm shift in the way higher education institutions train graduates. To him, it is important that the universities should start talking about entrepreneurship - a key to tackling unemployment. This, he said, will...
The Institute of Chartered Accountants Ghana (ICAG) has conferred on over 200 deserving members who have played a significant role in the profession a ‘Fellow’ title for the first time, prior to the coming into effect of Act 2020, act 1058. According to the President of ICAG, Professor Williams A....
A team from the West African Centre for Water, Irrigation and Sustainable Agriculture (WACWISA) of the University for Development Studies (UDS) has participated in a review workshop as part of curriculum development for Solar Powered Irrigation Systems (SPIS) in the country. The four-day workshop was held in Ho, in partnership...
The Ghana International Trade and Finance Conference (GITFiC) is set to embark on a research survey, primarily to assess the knowledge Ghanaian private and public sectors have on AfCFTA and their declaration of Accra as the Commercial Capital of Africa. The survey will take off on February 7, 2022 and...