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Professor Edmund Nminyem Delle, the Founder of Rabito Clinic Limited was at the weekend decorated as the “the Greatest Entrepreneur of All Time” at the 10th Ghana Entrepreneur and Corporate Executive Awards 2020. The award, which was bestowed by the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Ghana in partnership with the Ministry of Business Development, seeks to honour the accomplishment of long-standing Entrepreneurs ...

President Akufo-Addo has made a passionate appeal to the leadership and members of the Vehicle and Assets Dealers Union of Ghana (VADUG), to partner with the government as it takes concrete steps to improve the automotive industry of the country. The President made the appeal when he addressed a delegation of the Union at the Jubilee House when they paid ...

The further weakening of the Ghanaian Cedi against the U.S. dollar will worsen the impact of coronavirus pandemic, the International Monetary Fund has said. Since late February 2020, the Cedi has consistently depreciated against the dollar by -2.46 percent, year to date, and -7.34 percent year-on-year. The IMF in its staff policy-related analysis report on the dominance of the U.S. ...

The president of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, has ordered the security forces to enforce a dusk-to-dawn curfew from Wednesday. He said this was necessary to bring under control the coronavirus outbreak, which has killed 26 people and infected close to 2,000 others. Zimbabweans are being urged to stay at home all other times except to get food and water, or for ...

At least 23 soldiers have been killed in an ambush in northwestern Nigeria. Armed militants opened fire on the soldiers as they walked through a forested part of the Jibia district in Katsina State, security sources said on Sunday. So far, the bodies of 23 soldiers have been accounted for while some are still missing. The toll could be higher ...

The management of the National Service Scheme (NSS) is calling on Ghanaians to desist from paying monies to fraudsters. According to the National Service Scheme, some persons posing as agents of the scheme on various social media platforms, extorting money from prospective national service personnel with the view of assisting them to be posted to their preferred institution. According to ...

Immigration officials in Ghana have confirmed the arrest of 28 Burkinabe nationals in the Upper West Region for attempting to sneak into the country illegally. The ECOWAS nationals were arrested on Wednesday at about 9am at the Hamile District Assembly Barrier in the Upper West Region. The irregular migrants comprising 19 males and nine females were on board a passenger Benz bus with registration ...

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta says government is working to roll out unemployment benefits for Ghanaians soon. According to him, the move has been influenced by how conditions of some workers have been affected because of the coronavirus pandemic. “As a responsible society we should have such a program to cushion Ghanaians when needed,” he said. Speaking on PM Express on ...

INTERPOL says organised crime groups are exploiting Africa’s billion-dollar mobile money industry, a trend only set to increase as the service is rolled out across the continent. The ‘Mobile money and organized crime in Africa’ report, authored by the international police organisation, presented an overview of the criminal exploitation of mobile money services. This included fraud, money laundering, extortion, human ...

Tanzania’s electoral commission has set 28 October as the date for general elections, the Citizen newspaper reports. The commission’s chairman Justice Semistocles Kaijage has told a media briefing that election campaigns will start on 26 August and end a day before the election. Presidential and parliamentary candidates will submit their names to the commission on 25 August, he said. President ...