Ghana might not be a Christian country, but it sure is a religious one. At the last census, it was estimated that more than 90% of the population actively believed in, and practised some form of worship of, a Supreme Being. Or some form of deities. That is a...
Some say business aptitude is inherent, and others say it is learnt; but Gwyneth Gyimah Addo, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of one of the biggest hair extension companies in Ghana - Hair Senta - has proven that business acumen, although can be innate, has to be built on through...
GB Foods, leading food manufacturing company and producers of Ghana’s favourite Gino and Pomo range of products, have expanded its production line by opening a state-of-the-art tomato canning line in Tema. Built at a total cost of US$5million, this state-of-the-art tomato cannery is aimed at reducing the amount of raw...
The Institute for Energy Security (IES) is predicting a marginal increase in fuel prices at the pumps for the first half of January 2021. According to the institute, the increase is caused by 5.03% increase in price of International Benchmark- Brent crude, 8.44% increase in price of Gasoline, and a...
The International Perspective for Policy & Governance (IPPG) has facilitated a round table meeting convened by the Young Diplomats of Ghana (YDG), IPPG’s youth diplomacy and advocacy wing to assess Ghana’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and deliberate on policy strategies to build a resilient health system that can...
NEW YORK – The robots are no longer coming; they are here. The COVID-19 pandemic is hastening the spread of artificial intelligence (AI), but few have fully considered the short- and long-term consequences. In thinking about AI, it is natural to start from the perspective of welfare economics – productivity...
Total expenditure allocation for the agriculture sector in the past four years, from 2017 to 2020, has stayed below one percent of government’s total spending in the economy. The total spending for the agriculture sector in 2017, which was GH¢384.6million, constituted just 0.71 percent of entire government expenditure. In 2018...
Krampa, the founder and CEO of an agro-processing company, sat in his office and wondered what he was going to do. He had been part of a workshop under the aegis of an international trade promotion organization the week before. It was evident that there was a huge potential...
Golden Star Wassa Limited (GSWL) has confirmed an attack on its employees and offices at Benso, by a group of armed illegal miners known as galamsey on Thursday 16th March 2023. The armed men set fire to vehicles, including an ambulance that serves both the community and our employees. They...
The ninth edition of the Vodafone flagship health initiative, Vodafone Healthline kicked off with education on COVID-19. The newly packaged and improved Vodafone Healthline dedicated its first episode to the global pandemic by discussing in detail its prevention, symptoms and treatment. Speaking on the subject, Dr. Joseph Oliver-Commey, Infectious Disease...