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Recognized leader in private and hybrid cloud landscapes in Ghana and the West Africa region, IBM Ghana has been awarded Ghana’s best Cloud Service Provider at the recently held 8th Ghana Information Technology & Telecoms Awards (GITTA), the most prestigious awards program in the industry held at the Movenpick Ambassador …

President Akufo-Addo has assured young Ghanaian entrepreneurs that his administration will give full backing to the new and developing entrepreneurship trends in the country. Speaking during the turn of the Ministry of Business Development’s Presidential Pitch for Start-ups event, held at the Movenpick Ambassador Hotel under the theme, “Creating an …

The Association of Ghana Industries is calling on its members to set up factories in the various districts across the country in a bid to take full advantage of government’s stimulus package. Chief Executive Officer of the association, Seth Twum Akwaboah said, “The stimulus package, the one 1D1F. In fact, …

Board Chairman of BOND Savings and Loans PLC has assured that the financial institution is in good fiscal standing to compete in its space. Peter Osei-Duah, believes there is high confidence in the PLC and that they are open for more investments. He said, “If you look at the average capital …

A 25-year-old graduate of the University of Ghana, Razak Issaka has been adjudged the overall winner of the MTN Apps Challenge season V. His App “Aluta-Man Must Chop” is an animated video which tells an exciting story of an ambitious and energetic young man called Aluta who is simply trying to …

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has launched a business ideas competition, dubbed the “Presidential Pitch”, aimed at realizing Government’s ambition of helping to unleash an entrepreneurial revolution in the country. According to President Akufo-Addo, the country has not done so well incubating business ideas and developing …

MTN’s App Challenge version 5.O, launched in September 2017 has entered its final stage with the completion of vetting of the various Apps that were submitted for the competition. Out of over 100 projects received after the launch, 48 made it into the second round of auditions. App developers were …

The Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) is expected to direct MTN on how it could disburse about eleven million cedis (GH¢11,000,000) to customers whose monies have been locked up in the company’s mobile money services. About thirty thousand (30,000) customers have had their monies locked up after being lured into a …

US Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross, will lead a delegation from the President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa (PAC-DBIA) on a fact-finding mission to Ghana later this month. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, Gilbert Kaplan, will head the delegation on stops in Ethiopia, Kenya and Côte …

Kosmos Energy is partnering Multimedia Group Ltd (MGL) to unearth innovations in agriculture through the Kosmos Innovation Center(KIC) Agritech Challenge. The Agritech Challenge looks out for innovative ideas by young entrepreneurs that provides solutions to challenges in the agriculture sector. Speaking to JoyBusiness after the official signing of the partnership agreement between …