In the month of July, 2010, Legatum, a privately owned international investment group, in conjunction with Omidyar Network, a philanthropic investment firm, launched the 2010 Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship, to promote commerce as a driving force in Africa’s economic growth. The Africa awards focus on celebrating the standards of business excellence within Africa and building a strong network... 

Internal Revenue Authority logo The Internal Revenue Authority (IRS) last week Wednesday organised a tax education seminar to sensitize professionals and update tax payers on the charges of the tax law on the theme: ‘Dialoguing with professionals to improve compliance with the laws’ in Accra. The seminar was aimed at educating the professionals and tax payers on how to assess their tax systems... 

Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in collaboration with Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Coalition for the African Rice Development (CARD) has launched a-five-day national workshop on rice and aquaculture for productivity increase and market development. Speaking on the occasion, the Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, Mr. Yaw Effah-Baafi,... 

Group photograph of the participants and the facilitators A-one-day round table forum on labour issues and human resource management associated with oil palm plantation and palm oil production in Ghana has been held in Accra with a clarion call on oil palm farmers to desist from the practice of using children to work on oil palm farms. Mr Walter Atiako, Personal Assistant to the General Secretary... 

Bharti Airtel, a leading emerging market telecom services provider, has announced the appointment of Andre Beyers, as the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) for its African operations. The company recently acquired the mobile services operations of Zain in 15 countries across Africa and is working towards introducing its brand ‘Airtel’ in these markets shortly. Andre will report to Manoj Kohli, CEO... 

Dr Kwabena Duffuor, Finance Minister The thrust of Ghana’s economic policy has always been to chase single-digit inflation figure, and now that the Mills administration, according to the Statistical Services, has attained it in 19 months at 9.52% (June), the key question is what does it mean? That question is essential, because economic analysts/business people say it has been attained at a huge... 

Frontview of the guest house Hotel and Tourism Today over the weekend visited Peace and Love Guest House, situated at Pokuase-Afiaman in Accra off the Nsawam road. Mr Odartey-Lamptey, the owner of the hotel, has only been in the hospitality industry for one year. And looking at the kind of hotel facility he has put up, residents of the area have been applauding his efforts, especially looking... 

Zain Ghana has rolled out a bouquet of three new consumer products designed for its pre-paid customers to re-strengthen its commitment of putting consumers on the driving seat at all times. The products, ‘Free-Night Calls’, ‘Payback’ and ‘Friends and Family’, allow Zain pre-paid customers to control their spending patterns, increase their talk time and get rewarded with bonus credits for... 

Ishac Diwan, World Bank Country Director Ghana is one of the more open economies to foreign equity ownership in the Sub-Saharan Africa Region, “Investing Across Borders 2010,” a new report by the World Bank says. The report said all of Ghana’s major sectors covered by the “Investing Across Sectors” indicators, with the exception of the primary sectors, are fully open to... 

The Bosomtwi Rural Bank recorded a profit in its operations in the 2009 fiscal year. Pre-tax profit of the bank increased to GH¢576,235.37 in 2009 representing a 31.3 percent over the 2008 performance which was GH¢395,694.21. Deposits of the bank also grew from GH¢2,944,690.10 in 2004 to GH¢3,778,309.51 in 2009 representing a 231 percent increase in total assets while their total assets grew from...