The CEO of the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Plan (NEIP), John Kumah, has said that government, through the new programme, will soon roll out plans that support start-up businesses to grow into larger companies. He said the move has become necessary as the public sector no longer has the prospect...
The Public Services Commission (PSC) is hopeful of extending its Human Resource Management Information System (HRMIS) project to all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) by end of year, to completely expunge ghost names from government payroll. “The HRMIS system, when fully operational, will reduce the possibility of ghost names or...
The Africa Initiative for Governance (AIG) has appointed Justice Mrs. Georgina Wood (retired), immediate past-Chief Justice of Ghana, as the 2017-2018 AIG Visiting Fellow of Practice at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. The AIG Fellowship is awarded each year to an individual from West Africa who has...
First National Bank, a division of FirstRand group, (which is the largest financial institution in Africa by market capitalisation) has been adjudged The Most Innovative African Bank at the 2017 African FinTech Awards for the second year in a row. The African FinTech Awards recognizes innovative and disruptive financial technology...
Britain saw its smallest budget deficit for any September in the last 10 years, according to official figures. Last month's deficit stood at £5.902bn, down almost 11% compared with the same month last year, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. With many economists having forecast a deficit of about £6.5bn,...
Bechem United retained their Ghana Premier League status after recording a 1-0 win over Great Olympics on Match Day 30 at the Nana Fosu Gyeabour Park on Sunday. The breakthrough arrived after just three minutes on the clock, as Amed Toure fired home from close range to hand the Hunters...
I spent the last week of August and first week of October 2017 in Johannesburg and Pretoria working on a cultural event organized by a group of Ghanaians and South African nationals in partnership with the Ghanaian High Commission in Pretoria. It was a platform to showcase the rich...
Black Starlets coach Samuel Paa Kwesi Fabin has expressed his disappointment in officiating following his side's 2-1 to Mali in the quarter finals of the ongoing U-17 FIFA World Cup. Ghana were booted out of the competition after losing to a well organised Malian side at the Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium,...
Ghana will be looking to regain its formidable form of the ’90s when it takes on last edition’s runner-up Mali in the first quarterfinal of the FIFA Under-17 World Cup at the Indira Gandhi Stadium here on Saturday. The match-up of the two remaining African sides will be interesting considering...
The General Manager of Cadbury Cocoa World, Mr. Gerrard Baldwin, has described the country’s cocoa as best quality and a key ingredient of Cadbury chocolates and other confectioneries. Mr. Baldwin said that about 25% of cocoa used for making Cadbury chocolates is sourced from Ghana. According to Baldwin, Cadbury World -...