Ethiopian Airlines has added four times a week night flights from Accra to its operations. The development complements the Pan-African airline’s seven times regular midday flights, making it the largest operator by frequency servicing the Kotoka International Airport (KIA). As an airline group, it also has one of the largest cargo...
FBNBank has given further meaning to its commitment in empowering the youth by collaborating with the University of Ghana Career & Counselling Centre to organise a Career Week for the students. The Week’s activities comprised an industry-academia forum, a career fair, corporate icon contest, the decoded show, and the...
Government believes it is imperative that parliament prioritises the passage of three revenue bills currently before the august House. The outstanding bills are the Income Tax (Amendment) bill, Excise Duty & Excise Tax Stamp (Amendment) bills, as well as the Growth and Sustainability Levy bill. The bills are necessary for...
Development Bank Ghana (DBG) and the University of Ghana Business School (UGBS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to deepen development finance knowledge, innovations and its impact. The collaboration aims to build capacity for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), support youth-led businesses and enhance the understanding of development finance. As...
Ghana’s domestic debt exchange programme (DDE) can have significant implications for financial institutions, particularly banks and non-bank financial institutions, and can pose challenges to financial stability. The potential impact on banks' balance sheets and earning potential as well as the risk of capital shortfalls and liquidity pressures requires careful...
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) operating within the education sector, in collaboration with pre-tertiary level teacher groups, have issued a clarion call for government to painstakingly safeguard the entire education sector’s funding streams and revenue allocations against International Monetary Fund (IMF) austerity measures. They are concerned about how government is significantly...
The Development Bank Ghana (DBG) has announced plans to invest GH¢500million in four key commodities including soya bean, maize, rice and poultry, by the end of 2023. DBG has announced plans to introduce a partial credit guarantee product to the market this year, as part of plans to encourage more...
The Development Bank Ghana (DBG) has announced plans to introduce a partial credit guarantee product to the market this year, as part of plans to encourage more investments in high-risk sectors of the economy like agriculture. The partial credit guarantee product will allow financial institutions, particularly banks, to invest in...
There appears to be an end in sight for the perennial problem of food wastage and its impact on food security, as the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) secretariat ramps up efforts to improve the storage and export of agricultural commodities across the continent. AfCFTA’s Secretary-General, Wamkele Mene, said...
Government will invest an estimated US$108million to improve soybean production/best practices, as well as developing the grain’s value chain to curb post-harvest losses over the next five years. The investment is in line with key resolutions of the recently held Dakar II Summit in Senegal, and is expected to expand...