INSURANCE INDUSTRY has been called upon to continue to dialogue and educate their clients on the importance of policies to individuals and to the national economy. Chairman of Life Council, Mr....
Head of Corporate Affairs and Marketing at GLICO, Nana Efua Rockson, has urged government to consider making the health component of insurance products compulsory. “I think that government has to...
Nigeria’s gross domestic product fell by 1.5 per cent in 2016 due to lower oil revenues, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday, for its first annual contraction in 25 years. Africa’s...
After a dearth of technology listings in 2016, Snapchat parent Snap is set for its market debut as early as this week. The initial public offering (IPO) if successful could presage a wave of listings...
ONE issue that continues to confront us as a country is the practice of illegal mining, which is popularly referred to as galamsey. It is basically a practice where, especially the youth of gold...
Barclays PLC is to disinvest its controlling interest in the Barclays Africa Group after four years of joining hands with ABSA Group to form one of the most respected financial institutions in the...
In the continuing exposé on questionable payments at the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC), it has emerged that the utility regulator paid a little over $400,000 for software and other...
Government has commenced the payment of the tier two pension contributions of public sector workers into their registered schemes. Twelve labour consisting of the Ghana Medical Association, the Ghana...
At a furniture store outside India's capital, a salesman scans the manager's ID and takes her fingerprint on a biometric device attached to his cellphone. Within minutes, Meenakshi Sharma becomes...
Once a driver of growth and a source of national pride, South Korea's family-led conglomerates are becoming instead objects of public scorn as a massive corruption scandal puts them under mounting...
Executives from APM Terminals and Bolloré Transport & Logistics, the sponsors of the Tema Port Expansion Project, have toured the existing Meridian Port Services Terminal (MPS) inside Tema Port and...
Mexico's telecoms regulator has discussed forcing billionaire Carlos Slim to legally separate part of his fixed-line company Telmex from the rest of the company, three people familiar with the matter...
Banks are paying an average of 11.9 per cent per annum as interest on deposits but charging their borrowers an average of 33.4 per cent as nominal interest on loans annually, data from the Bank of...
Ghana’s new administration will be exactly 54 days old when it presents its maiden budget on March 2, 2017. Below are random questions put together by some staff of IMANI on energy, economy,...
In its 2016 full year audited results presented on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) in Lagos yesterday, Dangote Cement sold 8.6 million metric tons of cement outside Nigeria, which is...
The Institute for Fiscal Studies, a finance and economic think-tank based in Ghana, says the current practice, whereby expenditure on wages and salaries consumes an increasing share of revenue to the...
The Chief Executive Officer of Dalex Finance Ken Thompson has reiterated calls to allow demand and supply to determine the strength of cedi until it reaches it equilibrium. According to him,...
The Chief Executive Officer of Dalex Finance Ken Thompson has reiterated calls to allow demand and supply to determine the strength of cedi until it reaches it equilibrium. According to him,...
Satellite telecom firms OneWeb and Intelsat announced plans Tuesday to merge, and a fresh $1.7 billion investment from Japan's SoftBank to advance an ambitious "internet in the sky" plan. The deal...
One of the major drivers of every economy is the constant supply of electricity. The resource allows industry and businesses, in general, to run their machinery and equipment at optimum capacity to...
