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The Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) has hosted a special welcome cocktail party for the 2019 National Best Farmers Award winners as part of this year’s event which comes off on Friday, December 6. The welcome cocktail by ADB has become part of the National Farmers’ Day celebration for the past ten years is organized by ADB. ADB also sponsors the ultimate prize package of 100,000 dollars and the National Farmer’s Forum. Organized at the Residency of the Volta Regional Minister in Ho, Managing Director of ADB, Dr John Kofi Mensah congratulated the awardees for coming tops at their respective regions…

The Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) has hosted a special welcome cocktail party for the 2019 National Best Farmers Award winners as part of this year’s event which comes off on Friday, December 6. The welcome cocktail by ADB has become part of the National Farmers’ Day celebration for the past ten years is organized by ADB. ADB also sponsors the ultimate prize package of 100,000 dollars and the National Farmer’s Forum. Organized at the Residency of the Volta Regional Minister in Ho, Managing Director of ADB, Dr John Kofi Mensah congratulated the awardees for coming tops at their respective regions…

Africa’s waste management giant, Zoomlion Ghana Limited has received yet another set of prestigious awards at the third Sustainable and Social Investment (SSI) 2019 Awards. It has been adjudged the Best Company in Providing Sanitation Facilities, Best Company in Providing Environmental Sustainability Projects and the Best Company in Sustainable and Social Investment Project (Environment Category). The awards ceremony, which was on the theme “celebrating impactful brands and their sustainable legacies,” was attended by dignitaries Cuban ambassador to Ghana Pedro Luis Despaigne and Mr. Joseph Obeng Opoku, Chief Director of the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources who represented the sector…

Celebrated Ghanaian economist and business consultant Kwame Pianim has expressed sadness over the decision by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to call off the December 17 referendum. Speaking in an exclusive interview on Business Focus on TV3, Mr. Pianim told host Paa Kwesi Asare that he was sad the President had to bow to pressure from some “selfish politicians”. According to him, the decision to get political parties involved in district level elections goes as far back as the 1990s and was agreed by almost all the political parties. He, therefore, found it strange that Ghanaians will be against political…

Renowned economist Kwame Pianim says it will take a decade for confidence to be restored to the banking industry, following two years of sector reforms. The reforms saw the closure of some local banks and many other financial firms. Speaking in an exclusive interview on TV3’s Business Focus on Monday, December 2, Mr Pianim said although the Governor should be commended for doing a good job considering the bad situation he inherited, he believes Dr Ernest Yedu Addison could have been bolder. “The Governor and his people inherited a very bad situation. They have done pretty well, but I think…

Renowned economist Kwame Pianim says it will take a decade for confidence to be restored to the banking industry, following two years of sector reforms. The reforms saw the closure of some local banks and many other financial firms. Speaking in an exclusive interview on TV3’s Business Focus on Monday, December 2, Mr Pianim said although the Governor should be commended for doing a good job considering the bad situation he inherited, he believes Dr Ernest Yedu Addison could have been bolder. “The Governor and his people inherited a very bad situation. They have done pretty well, but I think…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has charged the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) not to take the law into their hands despite the law being on their side on issues of foreign participation in retail trading in Ghana. The president said this while addressing members of the Association in Accra as part of his 3-day tour of the Greater Accra Region. Some members of GUTA closed down shops of Nigerian retailers on Monday, December 2, stating the retailers do not have the right to operate in the country. Ghanaian, Nigerian traders clash at Circle President Akufo-Addo was at Okaishie…

More than half of Ghanaians say the level of corruption in the country has risen in the past year. About 53 per cent of Ghanaians hold that perception. This is a 14 percentage-point increase compared to 2017. This was contained in a new Afrobarometer report on perceived corruption in the country. Compared to 2017, there has been a 27 percentage-point decline in the approval rating of government performance in fighting corruption. This means 40 per cent of Ghanaians believe government is fighting corruption from 57 percentage-point in 2017 to 40 percentage-point in 2019. The police is still considered as the…

Zimbabwe’s former President Robert Mugabe died with $10m (£7.7m) cash in the bank, a legal letter from his daughter quoted by state media says. But he appears not to have left a will, according to the family’s lawyer. Mugabe, who died in September aged 95, was ousted in 2017 after 37 years in power. Separately, the UN has said it is expanding its operation in the country as about half of Zimbabwe’s population faces severe hunger. Last week, a UN official warned Zimbabwe was on the brink of man-made starvation. There had always been rumours about Mr Mugabe’s wealth,…