News

Jubilee unveils doctor consultation app for patients

Jubilee unveils doctor consultation app for patients

Jubilee Insurance has rolled out a video consultation service that will enable patients to virtually access medical advice from doctors on the back the social distancing directives …...

Read More
Fate of Safaricom bid for Ethiopia to be clear next year

Fate of Safaricom bid for Ethiopia to be clear next year

The fate of Safaricoms bid for a telecommunications licence in Ethiopia will be known by the end of next year at the earliest, according to new disclosures. The Ethiopian government…...

Read More
APP OFFERS HOPE FOR FARMERS IN THE FACE OF COVID-19

APP OFFERS HOPE FOR FARMERS IN THE FACE OF COVID-19

Covid-19 pandemic has affected millions of people worldwide.Most have been asked to stay indoors to curb the spread of the highly-contagious disease. This is as some 208 countries h…...

Read More
World Bank to support Ghana and six others to harmonise statistics

World Bank to support Ghana and six others to harmonise statistics

Ghana and six other West African countries are to benefit from a $379 million World Bank Group support to help harmonise and improve their statistical systems.The other countries ar…...

Read More
Ghana Grains Council, BUSAC Fund collaborate to promote standards in the grain industry

Ghana Grains Council, BUSAC Fund collaborate to promote standards in the grain industry

Ghana Grains Council (GGC) in collaboration with the Business Sector Advocacy Challenge Fund (BUSAC Fund) (an advocacy financing initiative of USAID and DANIDA) is embarking on amon…...

Read More
Safaricom, Vodacom pay Sh1.4bn for M-Pesa brand

Safaricom, Vodacom pay Sh1.4bn for M-Pesa brand

Safaricom and its South African parent company Vodacom have completed the buying of intellectual property rights to M-Pesa service from British firm Vodafone in a deal estimated at…...

Read More
Importers face higher freight charges as Covid-19 crisis bites

Importers face higher freight charges as Covid-19 crisis bites

Importers are grappling with a sharp rise in freight charges as cargo operators hike the cost to compensate on reduced consignments and empty flights coming in from Europe and Asia …...

Read More
Kenya launches Chinese-built 50MW solar power plant

Kenya launches Chinese-built 50MW solar power plant

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Friday launched a 50 MW solar power farm located in Garissa, northeast region, with the plant being one of the largest photovoltaic electricity st…...

Read More
Data gradually turning into oil fuelling success of businesses

Data gradually turning into oil fuelling success of businesses

Data is becoming an integral driver of the economy and our overall daily lives. In tech circles, it is regarded as the ‘modern oil’ that when well processed, fuels corporates grow…...

Read More
Farming key to upper middle income status

Farming key to upper middle income status

The outputs of Kenya’s agricultural sector, if targeted as a raw material for use by industry, could easily transform the country into an upper-middle-income economy in one generat…...

Read More