UMB Outdoors New Visa Cards
Universal Merchant Bank (UMB Bank) on Thursday, introduced three additional VISA Cards to give its customers more options in carrying out their transactions. The new VISA Cards are UMB VISA Prepaid...
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Vodafone Ghana And Tema Lions Club Partners In Eye Screening Exercise
Vodafone Ghana has partnered the Lions Club of Tema to have a free eye screening and test for the Tema Metropolis on the club’s 20th charter anniversary celebration. Over 20 years of community...
Telcos Spends GHC4.92bn In Over Five Years
Telecommunication operators in the country spent a total of GH¢4.92 billion in tax contributions, public funding and network improvement over the last five years. Out of the amount, the telcos,...
Trumps Victory And Eventual Presidency; President Sirleafs Concerns; Where I Disagree
Many Americans have and continue to express serious concerns about their president-elect, business executive Donald J. Trump, Sr. While some of these concerns may be legitimate, not all are real or...
World Market Will Recover From Trump’s Victory Shock – Economist
Economist, Professor Godfred Bokpin is certain the world market would come out of its shock in the coming days. UK stocks fell following stocks in Asian and European markets after Donald Trump won...
No, Donald Trump Can’t Appoint His Kids To His Cabinet
President-elect Donald Trump likely cannot appoint any of his children to head any Cabinet agency or department of government due to anti-nepotism laws. An anti-nepotism law enacted in 1967 prevents...
Kenya To Host Africa Finance & Investment Forum For First Time
Africa Finance & Investment Forum 2017 to take place in Nairobi, Kenya for the first time An expected 300 participants will converge in Nairobi, bringing together entrepreneurs, investors,...
Airtel Ghana Wins Global CSR Award
Airtel Ghana’s transformational CSR programme has been globally adjudged ‘Best Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative’ at the 2016 Global Carrier Awards held in Paris, France on Tuesday,...
FPSO Expected In Ghana By March 2017
Ghana is on course to get an additional 1-gigawatt of power to the national grid once gas production commences on the Sankofa project. That volume of power can feed at least 750,000 homes. The...
Oil Prices Dip Awaiting OPECs Cut In Output
Oil prices fell in early trading on Friday, as the market refocused on a persistent fuel supply overhang that is not expected to abate unless OPEC and other producers make a significant cut to their...
Singles’ Day Sales Shopping Festival Hits 10 Billion Yuan
An electronic screen shows sales on Alibaba’s retail platforms hit 10 billion yuan (US$1.5 billion) at a gala staged by Alibaba for the Singles’ Day shopping festival in Shenzhen. Within...
Petrobras Racks Up Massive Losses Due To Write-Offs
Brazil's state oil giant Petrobras has reported a massive loss for the third quarter of its financial year. Analysts had been expecting the firm to make a profit, but instead it lost 16bn reais...
APEC Meeting Is Scheduled To Promote More Public Events
The 24th APEC Economic Leaders’ Week is set to promote 150 different public and private events next week, the president of the Lima Convention and Visitors Bureau, Carlos Canales, said on Thursday....
Asia Shares, Emerging Currencies Stumble As Trump Anxiety Deepens
A searing selloff rocked Asian shares and emerging market currencies on Friday as investors feared higher U. S. interest rates under incoming President Donald Trump will spark capital outflows from...
Alibaba Closes In On Record Sales
E-commerce giant Alibaba looks set to smash the sales record for its annual Singles Day event. About 12 hours into the event, sales had reached 82.4bn yuan ($12.1bn; £10bn), the firm said. Last...
Melania Trump Wore A Black Dress To the White House
On Thursday, President Barack Obama welcomed President-elect Donald Trump to the White House. The conversation, which Trump expected to be 15 minutes, lasted for an hour and a half. And while POTUS...
Trump Tweets Protests Against Him Are ‘very Unfair’
Less than 48 hours after all the polls closed, President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter Thursday to call the widespread protests around the country against his presidential victory "very unfair."...
Mona Quartey, Others To Be Honoured At 2nd Ghana CFO Awards
Preparations towards the 2nd Ghana CFO Awards have reached its top gear, as Instinct Wave gets set to celebrate and honour Mona Quartey, the Deputy Finance Minister and other top finance...
Singles’ Day Sales Hit 10 Bln Yuan In 7 Minutes
An electronic screen shows sales on Alibaba’s retail platforms hit 10 billion yuan (US$1.5 billion) at a gala staged by Alibaba for the Singles’ Day shopping festival in Shenzhen. Chinese...
Think Outside the Box, Don’t Wait For Job Opportunities
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has charged university graduates yet to find employment to think outside the box rather than waiting on the state to give them jobs. He says the incessant search...