Education General News

NSS boss commends GIHOC industries for the retention of national service personnel

846  The Executive Director of the National Service Scheme, Mr Osei Assibey Antwi, has commended the Managing Director (MD) of GIHOC Distilleries, Mr Maxwell Kofi Dwumah and his management for retaining and employing over 60 National Service Personnel (NSP) deployed to his organisation over the past four (4) years. He stated that “this gesture surely […]

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Communications Minister Awarded Excellence In Governance

1,401  Ghana’s Communications and Digitalisation Minister, Mrs. Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has been awarded at the 7th Annual Ghana Women of the Year honours by Glitz Africa. Mrs. Owusu-Ekuful received the “Excellence in Governance” award. This is in recognition for driving Digitalisation in Ghana as well as her role as a Minister for Communications and Digitalisation which […]

Business General News

MTN momo sets to accelerate growth in digital payments through partnerships

879  MobileMoney Limited (MTN MoMo) has officially launched this year’s MoMo Month celebrations in Accra, Kumasi and Mankessim to highlight the importance of partnerships to accelerate digital payments. This year’s celebration will focus on the opportunities MoMo presents and how stakeholders can leverage the digital payments sector to support the rebuilding of a robust and […]

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Are Credit Ratings Agencies Always 100% Right and Reliable? : Razak Kojo Opoku Writes

687  Credit Ratings Agencies such as Standard and Poor’s(S&P) Global Ratings, Fitch Ratings, Moody’s Investors Service and DBRS Morningstar are NOT always 100% right and reliable. It has been established that sometimes there is a conflict of interest between bond issuers and these credit ratings agencies. “The conflict of interest between credit ratings agencies and […]

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‘Bawumia for Ghana’ supports Nyamaa Special Needs School in Sunyani

1,272  Students living with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) at the Nyamaa Special Needs School in Sunyani of the Bono Region have benefitted from donations from ‘Bawumia for Ghana’ (BAWUGHA), youth group affiliated to the ruling New Patriotic Party. As part of the group social responsibilities, they donated educational Items worth thousands Ghana cedis which include […]

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Does Credit Ratings Agencies Determine the Size & Success of an Economy? Certainly Not: Razak Kojo Opoku Writes

694  An American credit rating agency known as S&P Global Ratings on August 5th, 2022 downgraded Ghana’s credit rating from B- to CCC+, reflecting Ghana’s limited commercial financing options, constrained external and fiscal buffers. S&P Global Ratings has lowered Ghana’s foreign and local currency and Sovereign ratings to CCC+ and the NDC members are extremely […]

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Every community would have the level of development the constituency deserves-Dr Adutwum

682  The Member of Parliament for Bosomtwe, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has assured his constituents that every community in the constituency would receive the level of development the constituency deserves. He explained that although all the communities would not receive their projects simultaneously, there was the need for those yet to receive theirs to exercise […]

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Breaking the 8’ is possible but requires unity and peace among all party members

826  The Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has affirmed that ‘breaking the eight’ by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) was possible but required unity and peace among all party members. He explained that to ensure that there was peace in the party, there was the need for all stakeholders to put their difference behind […]