Absa Bank Ghana, a lead sponsor of the National Science & Maths Quiz (NSMQ) has congratulated the Presbyterian Boys’ School (PRESEC-Legon) for emerging the ultimate winners of this year’s competition. PRESEC-Legon won with 36 points, beating Adisadel College and Opoku Ware School who came 2nd and 3rd with 31 and...
West Africa Regional Director, Yara International, Danquah Addo-Yobo, has stressed the need for the agricultural value chain actors to rethink and find sustainable approaches to doing business during and post COVID-19 across the value chain, so that the sector will remain resilient in the face of crisis and became...
In less than six months, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way businesses operate and people live, particularly in the usage of mobile phones.
Mobile phones have become a lifeline for many. A significant number of mobile phone users use their phones in new ways - people are choosing to...
Fiscal deficit is tipped to hit double digits
Economy still at high risk of debt distress
The World Bank has intensified its call for Ghana and other African countries to spend wisely and implement innovative strategies which will broaden the tax net to capture every income-generating activity in order...
As part of efforts to manage waste and turn it into useable products, waste management expert Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL) and its partner, Komptech, in collaboration with government on Friday extended its solid waste treatment facility project to the Upper West Region.
The Upper West facility, which will be constructed...
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has said it will spend US$250million on rehabilitating cocoa farms over the next three years.
The country is seeking to cut down and replant diseased and over-aged cocoa farms under a cocoa rehabilitation programme launched by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo last month. About 40...
In line with its commitment to positively change the narrative about Africa, Access Bank Ghana has launched an online television series to showcase Ghanaian creativity across the continent.
Dubbed ‘All Walks of Life’, the new Online TV series will feature renowned actors in the Ghanaian movie industry: such as Adjetey...
Kofi Adjepong-Boateng, the merchant banker, has been awarded a CBE in Queen Elizabeth II’s 2020 Birthday Honours List for services to Philanthropy. Commander of the British Empire, CBE, is the highest ranking of the Orders of the British Empire award. It’s followed by OBE and then MBE. The list...
The directors of Nwabiagya Rural Bank Limited at Barekese in the Atwima Nwabiagya district of the Ashanti Region have described the 2020 financial year as very challenging, and they are poised to surmount every negative effect from the financial sector clean-up and COVID-19 pandemic.
With the banking sector beginning to...
Fifty years ago, Milton Friedman published an article in the New York Times that articulated what has come to be known as the Friedman doctrine: “the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits.” It was a theme he had developed in his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom,...