Category: Business
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Dangote Refinery 88% complete – Corporate Strategy Officer
Ghana, together with other West African countries, will soon cut down the importation of petroleum products, with the imminent completion of the 650,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) Dangote Refinery at Ibeju-Lekki area of Lagos, Nigeria. The Group Chief Corporate Strategy Officer for the Dangote group, Aliyu Suleiman, announced this at a virtual conference hosted by the Ghana…
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Insurance key to safeguarding funds during e-commerce – Absa Chief Enablement Officer
Ebo Richardson, the Chief Enablement and Information Officer at Absa Bank, Ghana, has urged businesses not to lose sight of the importance of insurance when safeguarding their e-payment structures while utilizing e-commerce. Insuring e-payment structures will help secure the money of businesses and customers in the event of some losses, Mr. Richardson said on the…
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#CitiBusinessFestival: Use data on customers to improve service delivery – Ebo Anamoah Mensah
The Chief Technology Officer for IT Consortium, Ebo Anamoah Mensah, has advised businesses to use customers’ data collated from their backend digital platforms to improve their services. Speaking on the Citi Business Festival 2021 edition on the topic. ‘Cashless Economy with Opportunities in Business and Commerce‘, Mr. Anamoah Mensah said a lot of businesses are…
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Hubtel opens new office in Kumasi to boost e-commerce in Ashanti Region
With the ever-changing face of retail business across the world, there have been calls for businesses in Ghana to accordingly adapt, especially with respect to e-commerce. The Ashanti regional capital, Kumasi which is one of the fastest-growing cities in Africa has not fully taken advantage of the e-commerce space as many residents still go through…
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Reconsider plans to reduce subsidy on fertiliser – Peasant farmers to government
The Peasant Farmers Association is hoping its meeting with the Ministry of Agriculture will yield favourable results on its concerns over the government’s decision to reduce the subsidy component on the price of fertiliser for the 2021 farming season. The move by the government according to the farmers has led to an increase in the…
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Consultant welcomes Amazon, Twitter offices in Ghana but asks critical questions
Digital marketing and communications consultant, Naasei Boadi, says news of Amazon and Twitter establishing in Ghana could mean a potential employment boom for the country. The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, at a recent press conference, hinted at the development and added that it was part of the government’s plan to address youth unemployment in the…
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Ignore conflict of interest claims against Ofori-Atta, Adu Boahen – Finance Ministry
The Ministry of Finance has described as inaccurate and misleading, information circulating in the media, which accuses the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta and Minister of State at the Finance Ministry, Charles Adu Boahen of being caught in a conflict of interest situation. The two are accused of having two non-bank financial institutions associated with…
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ADB wins 1D1F Financial Service Provider of the year at 2021 manufacturing awards
The Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) has been awarded the One District, One Factory (1D1F) Financial Service Provider of the Year at the 2021 Ghana Manufacturing Awards (GMA), held at the Kempinski Hotel, Gold Coast City in Accra. The honour affirms the Bank’s support to businesses under the government’s flagship industrialisation programme which seeks to build…
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Sub-20% interest rates needed for businesses to be competitive – GUTA
President of the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA), Dr. Joseph Obeng says until interest rates on loans drop below the 20 percent mark, the recent reduction in the monetary policy rate will not make much difference. The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Ghana, for the first time since March 2020, reduced…
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Third WOFAGRIC and Gold in the soil awards receives 131 nominations
The third (3rd) edition of Women in Food and Agricultural Leadership Training Forum (WOFAGRIC) And Gold in The Soil Awards, powered by Agrihouse Foundation, has received 131 nominations of deserving women farmers and agribusinesses. The event is set to take place from the 23rd to the 24th of June 2021 at the Akayet Hotel, Bolgatanga…