Over 100 youth in the country are likely to gain employment in the near-future, as Google has announced a partnership with Majorel - a global leader in customer service - to open a new office in Accra. With recruitment well underway to operationalise this new country office, the project is...
The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has commenced full investigations into the banking and financial sector crisis which triggered the collapse of some banks and financial institutions and the financial sector clean up and recapitalization reforms. “The investigations target alleged corruption and corruption-related offences perpetrated by officials of the...
When government introduced the benchmark value policy in 2019, it did so based on, at least, two reasons: namely to boost domestic revenue; and to discourage misclassification and stop under-invoicing. Government was hopeful that reducing the duties importers pay at the ports would automatically increase the volumes of imports; thereby...
Mahogany Consult (MC) - a public relations, events and change management consultancy - has been adjudged Best in Social Media Communication at the Institute of Public Relations (IPR) National PR and Communications Excellence Awards 2021, held in Akosombo. The award is presented to the organisation that planned and implemented the...
Telecel Group has extended its flagship social acceleration and investment programme, the Africa Startup Initiative Programme (ASIP) powered by Startupbootcamp AfriTech to Accra as part of its efforts to developing businesses in Africa. The programme which has already began a tour of Cohort II of the ASIP Accelerator programme event...
The Ghana Education Service (GES) in partnership with United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has marked this year's ‘My First Day at School’ with a donation of learning materials to several schools across the country. The exercise is held annually at the beginning of every academic year to welcome schoolchildren back...
Former Finance Minister, Seth Terkper, has said government’s proposed Electronic Levy (E-Levy) will distort the tax structure, arguing that it will lead to paying double tax and also result in paying taxes on savings, which is inappropriate. He said the situation will lead to the avoidance of tax where people...
Zeepay Ghana Limited, Africa's award-winning remittance and mobile money company has announced the winner of itsChristmas Promo, launched in partnership with Taptap Send. In the Christmas season of 2021, Zeepay partnered Taptap Send to bring their mutual customers a huge promotion aimed at encouraging remittance senders to send money to...
The Chief Executive Officer of Integriti Media, an avant-garde Pan-African public relations and communications agency operating across 8 African countries, Mr. John Kojo Williams, has lauded the appointment of a Ghanaian marketing scholar, Professor Robert Ebo Hinson as the Interim Vice Chancellor of the University of Kigali, Rwanda. In 2021,...
The unpredictable nature of fuel prices in the country, is causing much anxiety among citizens, with some who spoke with the B&FT, lamenting the impact it is having on their pockets. A trader who wants to be known as Eno Mary shared her experience with the B&FT saying: “The constant...