The economy’s transformation depends largely on government embracing technology and viewing it as the panacea to challenges confronting the country, said CEO of MOBEX Africa George Spencer Quaye.
“We believe that if we have to be a successful and a prosperous nation, one of the most critical things to do...
Cement manufacturers have called on government to check unfair trade practices in the country’s cement market.
The Cement Manufacturers Association of Ghana (CMAG) has consistently indicated that its advocacy for protecting the local cement industry is not to stop competition, but rather a crusade against the unfair trade practices surrounding...
Right Consult (RC) Ghana has in collaboration with UR Fog introduced the UR Fog product range of anti-theft security gadgets onto the Ghanaian market, to curb the increasing spate of robbery in homes, offices and banks.
UR Fog is an anti-theft security system that is designed to protect lives and...
Parliament is expected to task the regulatory bodies in the financial sector – Bank of Ghana (BoG) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) – to not hesitate in dealing with recalcitrant players to maintain sanity and trust in the industry.
A source close to the Finance Committee of Parliament...
The Executive Director of Enterprise Life, Jacqueline Benyi, has said industry will have to invest in academia if the link between the two is to yield mutually beneficial results.
“We acknowledge the fact that universities and companies have different business models; however, we are very much aware that some investment...
More than five hundred girls of the Odorgonno Senior High School have been left to make do with an old three-seater toilet facility after an oil cash-funded 18-seat facility constructed alongside a girls’ dormitory broke down after barely four months of usage.
The facility was inaugurated in October last year,...
120 deaths, 635 injuries in 10 years
Absence of rigorous standards and regulation blamed
The nation has since 2007 recorded 120 deaths and 635 injuries from gas explosions, aside from the unquantified economic and social costs running into millions of Ghana cedis.
The latest incident at Mansco LPG filling station...
The central bank says government’s inability to meet its projected revenue performance poses considerable danger to government’s fiscal consolidation efforts.
Revenue and grants performance for the first seven months of the year – GH¢20.8billion is more than GH¢3.2billion short of the GH¢24billion target for the period under review.
According to the...
The Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) are to promote locally-made handicrafts as a major export commodity on the international market.
The collaboration, which is expected to generate an estimated US$1billion a year, forms part of a broader strategy of promoting made-in-Ghana products globally.
Products...
Kumasi and Sogakope will be the beneficiaries of sugar-processing and cylinder-manufacturing factories respectively to be set-up by Chinese company, Sky Team Ningbo.
The sugar-processing factory in Sogakope has already taken-off, and according to the CEO of the Sky Team Group, Annie Shen, the company is looking forward to making an...