The Development Bank Ghana (DBG) has initiated efforts to address challenges in some key sub-sectors in the agricultural industry, as part of plans to boost food security and reduce the weight of food imports on the cedi and economy at large. The bank is currently engaging stakeholders to identify potential...
MTN Ghana has fallen short of its goal to increase its local ownership by 30 percent by end of 2022, according to the company's financial results. The local component of MTN's ownership was 23.7 percent at end of the year; the same as first-quarter 2022. In May of last year, the...
Key findings Renewed expansions in output and new orders Selling price inflation at 14-month low Employment increases for third month running February data signalled a renewed improvement in business conditions across Ghana's private sector, thereby ending a one-year period of deterioration. Softer price pressures helped lead to a revival of...
Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), parent company of the Ecobank Group - the leading pan-African banking group, is pleased to announce that Jeremy Awori has officially assumed his role as Chief Executive Officer of the Ecobank Group. Jeremy Awori, commenting on his new role said: “It's a fantastic opportunity to take Ecobank...
The Northeastern Global Leadership Summit, a renowned and dynamic summit, is to be held in Accra - the first time it is being held in Africa. The Global Leadership Summit is an engaging programme that connects students, alumni, parents and leaders from various parts of the world. Previous summits have...
Ghana's economic challenges can indeed be attributed to a number of factors, including reckless spending, corruption and poor leadership. One of the key challenges facing the country is high levels of public debt, which has been exacerbated by a history of reckless spending and poor fiscal management. This has led...
The origins of inequality in Ghana lie in geography - the lower rainfall, savannah vegetation, and remote and inaccessible location of much of the north; the pre-colonial relationships between kingdoms and tribes; and the colonial dispensation which ensured that northern Ghana was a labour-reserve for the southern mines and...
The afore-mentioned quotation, which forms part of the caption of this article, is a slogan in retrospect of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah – the first President of Ghana of blessed memory and his C.P.P Government, which he led during the 1960’s of Ghana’s youthful days as a nation. Soon after...
This year's Independence Day celebration will be held in Ho, the Volta Regional capital. This is in line with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's vision of regional rotation in celebration of the event, which hitherto had been centred in Accra. This year celebration is expected to sell the Volta...
I learned during my time in Sunday school as a kid that the only sure way to repentance is to first accept our sins or mistake, be remorseful, confess the same, and ask for forgiveness from the almighty God/Allah, and his loving kindness is enough for him to forgive...