Category: Business
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#CitiBusinessFestival: Five things to consider when resetting your MSME after COVID-19
The Citi Business Festival’s forum on Micro Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) discussed ways of resetting businesses after COVID-19. The forum saw Kosi Yankee, the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Enterprise Agency; Audrey Abakah, head of SME, agency and partnerships at Absa; the CEO of Busara-Africa, Taaka Awori and Richard Densu, the Senior Manager,…
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Ticket prices to rise following B.A schedule change on Accra-London-Accra route
Stakeholders in the aviation sector are warning of a hike in ticket prices for passengers using British Airways on the Accra-London-Accra route following the reduction in the number of days that the airline flies to and from Ghana. The airline as a result of several factors including a shortage of staff has decided to cut…
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Take advantage of YouStart programme – Absa Bank’s Audrey Abakah urges MSMEs
Head of SME & Partnerships at Absa, Audrey Abakah, has urged Micro Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) to take advantage of the governement’s YouStart programme. According to her, the youth entrepreneurship programme will be a vehicle for young entrepreneurs to not only gain access to capital, but also training, and technical skills. Audrey Abakah, who…
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#CitiBusinessFestival: Industrialization key to resetting MSMEs after Covid-19 – GEA CEO
The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Enterprises Agency (GEA), Kosi Yankey-Ayeh has advised Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) to place more emphasis on industrialising their operations. Speaking during the second live forum of the Citi Business Festival, Ms. Yankey-Ayeh said industrialisation is crucial to helping businesses bounce back from the adverse effects of…
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BA cuts flights on Accra-London-Accra rout to 5 from 7 per week due to lack of staff
British Airways has confirmed a cut down in the number of flights on its Accra-London-Accra route from 7 per week to 5 per week. This is according to sources within the travelling environment in the country. According to communication cited by Citi Business News between British Airways and its agent partners, the move by the…
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Citi Business Festival’s MSME Forum comes off today
The Citi Business Festival’s forum on Micro Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) will come off today. This will be the second forum to be organised since the festival began last week. Join us on Citi TV with our esteemed panellists as we discuss ways of ‘Resetting your (MSME) Business after Covid.’ The forum will see…
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Tullow Oil confirms merger with Capricorn Energy
Tullow Oil has confirmed its merger with Capricorn Energy, a fellow British oil and gas company that offers the combined entity oil reserves in excess of a billion barrels across multiple countries in Africa. According to the company, it is intended that the Combination will be implemented by means of a Court-sanctioned scheme of arrangement…
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#CitiBusinessFestival: Taaka Awori gives leadership tips for resetting businesses
Taaka Awori, the Chief Executive Officer of Busara- Africa spoke about leadership tips that will help businesses reset in a presentation on the Citi Business Festival on-air series on Monday, June 6, 2022. The Busara Africa CEO stressed that it will be very difficult to reset a business without the right kind of leadership. “Everything…
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Citi Business Festival: Address lack of financial data challenges using MoMo – Rufai Abdul Majeed
As part of efforts to address the issue of a lack of financial data, businesses within the informal sector have been encouraged to adopt mobile finance platforms in their operations. According to the Head of Commercial at Mobilemoney Ltd, Rufai Abdul Majeed, beyond the convenience mobile finance provides, it also can help address one major…
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#CitiBusinessFestival enters week 2: Focuses on Resetting MSMEs in a COVID-19 era
The Citi Business Festival continues this week with conversations on Resetting Your Micro Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) business after the Covid-19 pandemic. The Covid-19 pandemic dealt a big blow to many Medium and Small-Scale businesses, affecting not only their revenues and profits, but even their very existence. It is against this background that the…