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Premier Health Insurance Company, has been adjudged the Pride of Ghana health insurance company 2021 at the 8th prestigious Made in Ghana Awards (MIGA) ceremony held in Accra. The award is in recognition of Premier’s outstanding performance in Ghana’s fledging health insurance industry. Through its service quality, competitiveness and innovation in the health insurance industry, Premier Health Insurance became one ...

Lawmaker for the Effutu Constituency and Deputy Majority Leader in Parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has admonished Ghanaians to be resolute in keeping faith with the government’s commitment to improving health sector in the country. He said he does not want to be a pessimist and thus pray Ghanaians not to doubt the government’s commitment to improving infrastructure in the health sector. Mr Afenyo-Markin, therefore, called on Ghanaians ...

Technical Programs Manager of World Vision International (WVI), Andrew Ofosu Denkyi, says it is laudable that the literacy rate in Ghana increased to 79 per cent in 2018. He said it is a good thing for national development. He is however of the view that “there is more work to be done to increase the literacy rate in Ghana hence ...

The Akufo-Addo-led government’s One-District-One-Factory policy is one of the worst economic strategies an international monetary policy advisor with the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group Dr Jerry Kombat Monfant has said. The One-District-One-Factory Initiative is a key component of the industrial transformation agenda of the NPP government. The concept was first introduced by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Presidential Special ...

The leadership and Management of Zenith Bank Ghana Limited headed by the MD/CEO, Mr. Akindele Ogunranti has responded to H.E the President’s appeal to corporate Ghana to support the National teams especially the Black Stars with their widows mite to embark favourably on the the 2022 FIFA World cup qualifiers and next year’s AFCON Tournament. In a short ceremony to ...

The Accra High Court has halted the construction of a cement factory, which is under the one-district-one factory initiative, at McCharty Hill in Accra following a legal action by residents of the area. In a ruling Tuesday, [September 7, 2021], the court, presided over by Justice Joseph Adu Owusu Agyeman, ordered Empire Cement Ghana Limited to cease construction of the ...

Information gathered by the B&FT has revealed that importers of refined oil palm products, particularly vegetable cooking oil, are shortchanging government by under-declaring the actual prices of their imported products at the port, despite the introduction of the 50 percent benchmark values policy which has significantly slashed the duty they pay. Data this paper has gathered has revealed that, in ...

Pollster and Managing Editor of Dispatch, Mr Ben Ephson has said that winning an election in Ghana is not a do-or-die affair. He explained that winning an election requires trained party loyalists as polling agents who will ensure that vote numbers are properly collated and filled on the pink sheets. His comments come after Former President John Dramani Mahama has ...

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will today, Wednesday, 8 September, 2021, chair a virtual Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) meeting on the coup in Guinea. This was announced by the Director of Communications at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin. “The president will chair an emergency virtual summit of heads of state and governments of the Economic Community of ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has returned GH¢237,974, being the salary increment granted to him from January to August, this year. The funds, paid into the Pensions and Salaries Account of the Controller and Accountant – General’s Department, is in fulfillment of his pledge during this year’s May Day celebration, not to raise his salary, that of the Vice President, ...