Shareholders of Barclays Africa Group Ltd have given approval for the entity’s name to be changed to Absa Group Limited in July, setting in motion the start of one of the largest rebrand projects in Africa at this time. “The vote in support of our name change in July marks another milestone in our separation from Barclays PLC to become ...

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah will be honoured with his own exhibit in the British Museum’s Egyptian collection. The Egypt international has impressed this season, winning the Premier League golden boot with a record 32 goals. His boots will go on display in the run up to Liverpool’s Champions League final match against Real Madrid. “The boots tell a story of ...

The launch of Ghana’s first Mobile Money Interoperability Payment System is an “important milestone towards an integrated and interoperable electronic payments environment” and will have a major impact in efforts to ensure greater financial inclusion, the Governor of the Bank of Ghana has stated. Speaking at the launch of Payswitch Co Ltd, Ghana’s first private Third Party Processing Company, in ...

In a desperate attempt to kick out West Blue Consulting and GCNet, the Ministry of Trade has resorted to churning out lies to create public disaffection for the existing vendors operating single window at the ports. The Ministry of Trade which recently offered a 10-year sole sourced contract to Ghana Link and its overseas partners, CUPIA Korea Customs Service without ...

Founding President of think thank Imani Africa, Franklyn Cudjoe, has raised issues with the contract signed between the Bank of Ghana and Sibton Switch to undertake the mobile money interoperability project. “How much was the company that won the bid hoping to squeeze out of mobile money? An average of $40 million a year for the first five years. Note ...

Gianluigi Buffon has revealed that he will leave Juventus at the end of the 2017-18 season. Saturday’s Serie A clash with Verona will prove to be Buffon’s final match for the Italian giants, although the 40-year-old has not confirmed whether he will be retiring from professional football. “Saturday will be my last match with Juventus and I believe it will be the best ...

The Chief Executive Officer for the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communication (GIFEC), Mr. Abraham Kofi Asante, has emphasized the need for coding and programming in the life of children to make them grow into better adults. Speaking at the launch of the “Coding For Kids” programme at Asankragua on Wednesday, Mr. Asante said that coding can help the child to ...

Twenty-five (25) laptops of the National Youth Authority (NYA) were stolen by participants who underwent a three-month Digital Marketing and Entrepreneurship training program in the Ashanti region. The laptops were part of 30,000 laptops procured by government through the National Youth Authority to train youth in entrepreneurship. CEO of National Youth Authority, Emmanuel Asigri announced this on Thursday May 17, ...

Didier Deschamps has left Premier League stars Anthony Martial and Alexandre Lacazette out of France’s squad for the World Cup, with Dimitri Payet, Adrien Rabiot and Kingsley Coman also omitted. Bayern Munich winger Coman is on the reserves list, along with Rabiot, Martial and Lacazette, but Payet is out entirely after the Marseille captain was injured in Thursday’s Europa League ...

Dancehall act Samini has revealed in an interview with Abeiku Santana on his ‘ATUU’ show on UTV that he loves Patapaa and Ghanaians should stop mocking him. Samini disclosed in that interview that he took a picture with Patapaa at the VGMAs because he likes Patapaa and he is a fan. Asked by the host, why he likes Patapaa, he ...