Barclays Bank Ghana now Absa. Mrs Abena Osei-Poku, Managing Director, Absa Ghana Limited, speaking at the launch of Absa Bank Ghana Barclays Bank Ghana on Monday officially traded off its identity from the country’s financial services industry when it transitioned to become Absa Bank Ghana Ltd, a member of the Absa Group Limited. The bank, which took over the 100-year-old African operations of Barclays Plc of the United Kingdom in July 2017, is expected to continue to connect the ambitions of its clients, the business community and Ghanaians with financial lending, services and opportunities through innovation. Launching At a ceremony in Accra yesterday to unveil the new-look Barclays as Absa Bank Ghana Ltd, the Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, said Absa Bank would be operating in a much-improved economy, since Ghana now had a major transformation and modernisation agenda on the ground. He said the mess which was inherited by the government in the country’s financia...

Ghana earns $378 million from raw cashew nuts exports. Ghana earned $378 million from the sale of 110 tonnes of raw cashew nuts in 2018. The amount represented 43 per cent of the total revenue obtained from non-traditional export commodities in the country. The Director of Crop Services of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), Mr Seth Osei-Akoto, announced this at the opening of a one-week technical upscaling development training programme on cashew value chain promotion in Sunyani yesterday. Seventy-two participants, made up of tutors from agriculture training institutions in Ghana are taking part in the training programme to ensure that they acquire the right knowledge in order to pass it on to potential trainees who enrol in their institutions. The training was organised by Competitive Cashew Initiative (GIZ/ComCashew), a non-governmental organisation, in collaboration with the Ghana Skills Development Initiative (GSDI), with support from the MoFA. Challenges ...

Suspected coronavirus patients at Korle Bu test negative Source : Myjoyonline.com | Naa Sakwaba Akwa | E: faustine.akwa@myjoyonline.com Date: 06-02-2020 Two patients who underwent testing for coronavirus do not have the deadly infection, officials at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR) announced on Thursday. The two – a Chinese and an Argentine – who have been living together in the country for a while were isolated at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, their blood samples were taken and sent to the medical research institute on Wednesday. Their admission brought operations at Korle Bu to a halt but as Joy News’ Health Editor Fred Smith reports, test results show they do not have the disease. An earlier suspected case at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) has also been declared negative. The Health Minister, Kwaku Agyemang Manu says his office and other partners have put in place measures to fight the deadly Coronavirus in case it is detect...

Scary: Ghana Records Its First Case Of Coronavirus By BB Jones- February 6, 2020 A news report by Class FM states that the deadly coronavirus has hit Ghana with two isolated cases recorded at the Kolebu Teaching Hospital already. The report says two foreigners, one from China and the other from Argentina have shown symptoms of the disease already. The patients who have been in Ghana for a while now have been isolated at the facility while blood samples taken have been sent to the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), for further analysis. The two gentlemen reportedly walked into Korle Bu after they were referred to the place from a clinic. The Greater Accra Divisional Secretary of the Ghana Medical Association, Dr William Baah who confirmed this told Accra-based Joy TV that the Chinese left the home country for Ghana sometime in September 2019 while the Argentine, who was in Shanghai, joined the Chinese in Ghana in January. “They’ve all develop...

2nd Tertiary Business Sense Challenge launch tomorrow;19 Universities set to participate Nineteen tertiary institutions are taking part in the second edition of the Graphic Business Tertiary Business Sense Challenge (TBSC) which will be launched tomorrow at the TV3 Executive Theatre at Kanda in Accra. The institutions are drawn from both public and private tertiary institutions in the country and will battle it out to take the title from the University of Cape Coast, who emerged winner of the first edition held last year.. The institutions are University of Cape Coast (UCC), University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), University of Ghana Business School (UGBS), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Accra Technical University (ATU), Radford University, AIT and All Nations University. The rest are the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), Central University, Kumasi Technical University, Ghana Technology University College and the Ghana Institute of...

Ghana’s Cedi Is the Year’s Biggest Winner Against the U.S. Dollar. By Moses Mozart Dzawu February 3, 2020, 12:33 PM GMT Updated on February 3, 2020, 2:39 PM GMT Ghana’s cedi, the world’s best-performing currency against the dollar this year, extended its advance on Monday as investors await a Eurobond sale that would bolster the government’s coffers. The currency of the world’s second-biggest cocoa producer has strengthened 3.9% in 2020, the most among more than 140 currencies tracked by Bloomberg, a turnaround from last year, when it weakened 13%. The coronavirus outbreak and the recent lunar new year holiday in China has cut back travel and trade, reducing demand for foreign currency from Ghanaian importers, according to Nana Yaa Faakye, Head of Treasury at Republic Bank Ghana Ltd. The West African country is concluding a series of meetings with international bond investors Monday for a sale of as much as $3 billion in Eurobonds. Ghana's cedi ...

UNIVERSITY FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES GRADUATE SCHOOL ADMISSIONS OF CANDIDATES INTO GRADUATE PROGRAMMES 2020/2021 ACADEMIC YEAR Applications for admission into graduate programmes in the Graduate School of the University for Development Studies (UDS) are now open. The following accredited graduate programmes (Sandwich and Regular) will be offered by the University for the 2020/2021 academic year: A. SANDWICH PROGRAMMES WA CAMPUS School of Business and Law (SBL) (Note that Admissions would be made for Tamale, Wa and Techiman Centres for all the SBL programmes) Master of Commerce (Options:  Banking and Finance, Accounting, Procurement and Supply Chain Management, and Human Resources Management ) Accounting MA Management Studies MA Leadership and Development MA Business Planning and Microfinance Management NB: Applicants wishing to pursue thesis-based programmes in MSc. Accounting and Master of Commerce are required to submit a short research proposal...