Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, has revealed in the 2020 mid-year budget review that government has released an amount of GH¢57,800,000 for the payment of nursing students allowance.
According to the Finance Minister, the stipulated amount is to cover the allowance of some 48,200 nursing students across various nursing training...
Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have called on government and all political parties to help empower the local seed industry by providing an enabling environment and logistical support to ensure that Ghana is seed sufficient.
The CSOs believe that government and political parties can, through their manifestos and policies, safeguard input...
The National Lottery Authority (NLA), has indicated that due to the shift system it is implementing to make its working environment safe from COVID-19, and the increasing spate of lotto fraudsters, it is taking reasonably longer to pay winning tickets or prizes and thus appealing to the staking public...
What is your name?
“A good name is to be chosen rather...” – Proverbs 22:1
Names trigger emotions, they evoke memories and they inspire actions. Out of the billions of people on earth, everyone has a name.
In West Africa, names are so important to the extent that names they give to...
Mr. Ernest Frimpong, the Managing Director of Loyalty Insurance Company Limited, has made a call to insurance policyholders/insureds/claimants to report accidents or insurance claims to insurance companies on time to speed up investigations, processing, settlement and payment of insurance claims in a fair and prompt manner.
Mr. Frimpong indicated that...
In spite of the COVID-19 and subsequent lockdown of activities non-life insurers performance during the period in relation to income, generation was encouraging for this period under review.
The 29 non-life companies generated total gross premium income of GH¢515,741,117 in the first quarter of 2020 as against GH¢397,461,040 the same...
The online shopping basket has increased tremendously since the break out of COVID -19 and its restrictive protocols. Many people now seeing the constraints on time and movement especially have resulted in online channels to get whatever they need. In doing so, demands online for new categories of products...
First National Bank Ghana is set to host its first-ever Developers Forum in Ghana on Thursday, August 6, 2020. It will be a gathering with real estate developers, construction experts and landowners to discuss the bank’s enhanced home loan portfolio, following its recent merger with GHL Bank.
The event is...
In line with Fidelity Bank’s deep-rooted commitment to growing its Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) base, the bank in collaboration with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) held the second session of its four-part webinar series on the topic Accessing Finance During Crises.
Organized under the Fidelity Presents… thought leadership initiative,...
COVID-19 hit the Chinese economy hard in the first quarter of 2020, causing real GDP to contract by 6.8% year on year. But since the city of Wuhan emerged from lockdown in early April, the economy has gradually returned to normal and grew by 3.2% in the second quarter....