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Since bitcoin’s recent highs, the cryptocurrency has once again awoken the interest of the media, regulators, and speculators. Both the reputation and the regulatory environment for bitcoin is turning for the positive around the globally and speculators are once again investing heavily in the world’s first decentralised digital currency. In this post, you will discover ten ways to make money ...

Africa’s largest philanthropy supporting entrepreneurship – The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) is now accepting applications for business ideas that can transform Africa. To apply, complete the online application at www.application.tonyelumelufoundation.org. The deadline is midnight (WAT) on 1 March 2018. The Programme provides critical tools for business success, including: • Training: 12 weeks of intensive online training which guides creating and ...

A crypto-currency called Ripple has become the second most valuable virtual cash system. Over the weekend the value of the digital currency hit more than $100bn (£74bn) according to some market monitors. This valuation is higher than another popular crypto-cash system called Ethereum. Each Ripple coin is now worth about $2.34 – far higher than the half a US cent ...

Vice president of Group Nduom, Papa-Wassa Chiefy Nduom has urged the Bank of Ghana to diversify its investment by placing some of its funds in bitcoin. He urged the central bank to invest about one percent of Ghana’s reserves in bitcoin. Mr Ndoum said, “I don’t think it’s a gamble, I think every investment is a gamble, getting out of ...

A Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), Abibata Shanni Mahama Zakariah (Mrs.), has received the Global Female Leadership Impact Award and inducted into the Global Women Leaders Hall of Fame (GWLHOF), 2017. She was also named among the Top 100 Most Influential Women Leaders in Emerging Economies to watch in 2018 at the just ...

A Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry Robert Ahomka-Linsay has revealed that government intends to leave both the running of the Komenda Sugar Factory and the cultivation of sugarcane to feed the factory in the hands of private investors. The decision, he says is part of government’s agenda to revive the $35 million Indian Exim Bank facility that has been ...

HFC Bank Ghana Limited has expressed its readiness to take up its rightful position in Ghana’s banking industry as it seeks to implement its rebranding in 2018. According to the Managing Director (MD) of the bank, Anthony Jordan, their shareholders have given them the green light to be branded as Republic Ghana Limited, and would begin that from next year. ...

Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Boahen Aidoo has expressed deep worry about the extent of Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease (CSSVD) infestation on cocoa farms in Ghana. Mr. Aidoo made the observation when he toured some cocoa farms in the Western South and Western North Cocoa Regions of Ghana to acquaint himself of the state of cocoa ...

Government has paid over one billion Ghana cedis within the past 11 months to road contractors as outstanding arrears for work executed during the previous government’s era, Mr Kwesi Amoako-Atta, the Minister of Roads and Highways, has disclosed. The Minister added that the government had made arrangement to disburse another GHC 120 million to road contractors whose arrears had been ...