The Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems, has held a 3-day training workshop on the use of the Automated Clearing House (ACH) in Accra at the weekend. It was organized for selected staff of the country’s 28 main banks, aim at enhancing their understanding and skills of the ACH application. A resource person from Radix […]
UNICEF and the Japanese government have announced a $1.5 million project to address cholera in Ghana. According to the two the project ‘will help prevent and respond to cholera outbreaks in Ghana.’ “The Cholera Prevention and Response Project will bring safe water to 35,000 people, support 250,000 people to access sanitation and give families and […]
Stakeholders have called on world leaders to demonstrate strong political will to confront cervical cancer, which is projected to claim the lives of half a million women annually by 2030. Though some leaders were heeding to the call, there was more to be done to save the lives of women from dying of cervical cancer, […]
Ghana and Turkey have affirmed their commitment to increase their trade portfolio from the current $500 million to $1 billion by 2015. President John Dramani Mahama and the outgoing Turkish Ambassador, Mr Aydin Nurham, made the pledge yesterday at the Flagstaff House, Kanda in Accra. Mr Nurham, who has completed his one-and-a-half-year duty tour of […]
Ghana earned 800 million Euros through the export of commodities, including oil, gas, cocoa, bananas and fish to France last year 2012 while France’s imports to Ghana stood at 600 million Euros. That, according to the Head of Economic Department at the French Embassy in Ghana, Mr Dominique Pantz, gave Ghana a trade surplus of […]
Ghana earned 800 million Euros through the export of commodities, including oil, gas, cocoa, bananas and fish to France last year while France’s imports to Ghana stood at 600 million Euros. That, according to the Head of Economic Department at the French Embassy in Ghana, Mr Dominique Pantz, gave Ghana a trade surplus of 200 […]
Trade financing in Africa received a major boost when the African Development Bank (AfDB) approved on Tuesday, May 22, a $100 million unfunded Risk Participation Agreement (RPA) between it and Commerzbank AG. The two insitutions will share the default risk on a portfolio of qualifying trade transactions originated by issuing banks in Africa and confirmed […]
Mr Patrick Lucas, Vice President of MEDEF International, a French Business Confederation, has said French companies operating in the country were committed to contribute to achieving the country’s long term development objectives. “We have the technological expertise, capacity and strong will to lead, integrate and take part together with local and international partners in the […]
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor, today left Accra to participate in the 50 Anniversary of the Organisation of African Union (OAU) and 10 years of its transformation into African Union (AU), in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A statement signed by Mr Frank Agyekum, Spokesperson and Special Aide of former President Kufuor, and copied to the GNA […]
An exhibition of art and craft has opened in Accra to mark the 50th anniversary celebration of the death of Dr W.E.B Du Bois. The three-day event is being organised under the auspices of the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Creative Art and the National Commission on Culture to promote Pan-Africanism. In a tribute to […]
