Author: Ellen Dapaah
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Comply with consumer protection policies – BoG to banks
Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Ernest Addison, is asking banks in the country to comply with the consumer protection policy governing the sector. This forms part of the Central Bank’s effort to ensure the comfort and safety of consumers are well attended to. Section 3 of the Banks and Specialized Deposits-Taking Institutions Act…
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Taking the reins at GRIDCo; ambition meets preparation [Article]
The announcement came rather inconspicuously, but there was no ambiguity about it. When the time came to get someone competent to captain Ghana’s electricity power transmitter, Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo), Engineer Ebenezer Kofi Essienyi was settled on as the Chief Executive Officer. The news splashed all over the electronic and social media, eliciting some…
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Economist backs World Bank’s 9.8% end-of-year inflation rate projection for Ghana
The World Bank has projected that Ghana would end this year with an inflation rate of 9.8 percent. This forecast in the Africa Pulse Report by the World Bank falls within the Bank of Ghana’s target of 8 +/-2%. “In Ghana, weak domestic currency combined with a rise in food prices pushed headline inflation from…
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Establish banks to support fisheries industry – Ghana Tuna Association
Secretary to the Ghana Tuna Association, Richster Nii Amarh Amarfio, has called for the establishment of fisheries banks to support the operations of industry players. He said most banks did not understand the fishing industry well enough to give loans for its operations, which had made some companies to fold up. Mr. Amarfio, also the…
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Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings empowers women in agribusiness
The Member of Parliament for Korle- Klottey, Dr. Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings, has commenced the National Agricultural Capacity and Business Set-up Roadshow to empower young women and persons with disabilities in agribusiness. She said the project was to reduce the financial burden on the people when they ventured into agribusiness. Dr. Agyeman-Rawlings, speaking at the screening and…
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Access Bank awards finalists of Perfect Start promo
Access Bank (Ghana) Plc has presented cash prizes and other consolation prizes, to top seven finalists of its Perfect Start Promo. The first four contestants got their share of the coveted GH¢100.000 cash prize. The Perfect Start Promo was the first-ever digital promo of the Bank, targeted at children. It was aimed at protecting the…
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SIM card re-registration process satisfactory so far – Ursula
The Minister for Communications and Digitalization, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has described the SIM card re-registration process as satisfactory so far. “It’s early days yet, and we are continuously monitoring the process, but it’s satisfactory. People are at least signing up for the first stage of the project. So far, even on Day 1, I think they…
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Communications Ministry partners Digital Transformation Centre to promote inclusive digital economy
The Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation and the Digital Transformation Center by GIZ Ghana, have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The agreement is intended to guide the partnership between the two parties to achieve an inclusive digital economy and society. Under this shared vision, every citizen, notably women and young people…
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Global social media outage: Ghanaian IT professionals urged to develop Apps to serve Africa
Minister of Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful wants Ghanaian youth in the technology space to see the outage experienced by Whatsapp, Instagram and Facebook as an opportunity to create similar communication apps the country can rely on. For over six hours on Monday, the whole world suffered an outage on three major social media apps,…
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WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram hit by worldwide outage
Social media services Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram have been hit by a worldwide outage. The three social media services, all owned by Facebook, run on a shared back end infrastructure and for hours on Monday could not be accessed over the web or smartphone apps. The situation has since left users of the platform across…