Kofi Ahovi

In the wake of Covid-19, the Director of Communications and Corporate Affairs, Zoomlion Ghana Limited, Emma Akyea-Boakye, has reassured travelers that the country’s airports are safe. She gave the assurance when Tamale Airport had its turn of the third phase of airport disinfection exercise in the country. According to her, the exercise has become necessary because very soon the country would switch into the Christmas festive mood which would see the influx of travelers all over the terminals. So with the Covid still lurking around, if we do this disinfection, we are sure that we have targeted the virus, and probably bacteria and any such vector around; so that we reassure our customers that will be passing through the airports and every Ghanaian that the airport is a safe place to go,” she said. However, Akyea-Boakye said in addition to the disinfection, it was imperative that travelers continued to observe the Covid-19 protocols by wearing nose masks and using alcohol-based hand sani...

As part of the country’s efforts to fight the coronavirus (Covid-19) epidemic, the Ministry of Aviation (MoA) and Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) in collaboration with Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL) on Monday (December 14, 2020,) evening begun the third phase of disinfection exercise at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA). The two-hour exercise, which was carried out from 9:30 p.m.,-11:30 p.m., covered facilities at Terminal 1 and 2 and all its open spaces. These facilities included restaurants, washrooms, arrival and departure halls, tarmac among others. Briefing journalists earlier, General Manager (GM) of Vector Control Services of Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL), Reverend Ebenezer Kwame Addae, said the exercise was to augment the quarterly disinfections at the country’s airports and keep them safe for users. We are carrying out these regular disinfection exercises at the country’s airports to keep them safe from the Covid, and also repose confidence in passengers travelling in ...

Xoom , PayPal’s money transfer service, announced that the company’s customers in the US, UK, Canada and Europe can now send secure and convenient money transfers directly to mobile wallets in key markets across Africa with a focus on the underbanked segment. This new service expands the company’s offering to send money to mobile wallets in Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe—with plans to include more markets in 2021. Mobile money services are being deployed rapidly across emerging markets as a key tool to further the goal of financial inclusion. Financial inclusion is instrumental in lifting the undeserved population out of poverty—and for driving economic growth. In 2019, the number of globally registered mobile money accounts surpassed the one billion mark. In Ghana, Kenya and Zimbabwe, over 60 percent of adults have mobile money accounts. This new service expands Xoom’s offerings in Africa as the current service al...

  We are pleased to introduce to Ghana and West Africa, and later the whole continent of Africa, and the world, a common platform for learning. Traditionally teachers met students in buildings on large tracts of land set aside for sharing knowledge in the form of courses taught by teachers. At the University level this involves millions and even billions of dollars invested. In places like Africa millions are denied opportunities due to poor infrastructure and distance from available schools and amenities. This should not be so anymore. Today cell phones and Wi-Fi Internet reaches many more millions than a few years ago and expanding. The cost of telecommunication devices keep dropping every year. MyGlobalStudents (MGS) is a platform designed by a Ghanaian company in collaboration with a private vision originated in California called Global Data Design by Dr. Kwaku A. Danso. In the 1960s Ghana had a vision from first Premier and President Kwame Nkrumah to develop her own technologi...

The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Shippers’ Authority (GSA), Benonita Bismarck has lauded the police service for its commitment to addressing road governance challenges in the promotion of transit trade. She said under the able leadership of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), James Oppong-Boanuh, the GSA is enjoying good collaboration with the police service  in addressing bottlenecks relating to its operations impeding the smooth passage of transit trucks along Ghana’s transit corridors. These were said on her behalf by the Head of Freight and Logistics of the GSA, Fred Asiedu-Dartey  on 11th November, 2020  in Kumasi during  the first in a series  of a sensitisation workshop organised by the GSA  to sensitise senior police officers on the importance of the transit trade. The event also sought to address key concerns relating to the conduct of  police officers deployed along the corridors. Read also: MPS T3 breaks all-time productivity reco...

The third phase of the national market disinfection is underway. The exercise is aimed at controlling the spread of the Covid-19 virus in the country. The exercise which begun early Monday morning at Wenchi in the Bono Region saw all the markets, shops and other public places disinfected. Amponsakrom, Subinso, Boku and other nearby towns also had their markets disinfected by the Zoomlion sanitation officers with support from the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development. Richmond Sarfo, the Assemblyman for the Wenchifie Ntoase Electoral Area, who spoke on behalf of the MCE, Dr. Prince Kwaakye Afriyie, said the quarterly disinfection exercise has become even more important as other countries are experiencing second and third waves of the virus. He mentioned that the Assembly has provided enough Veronica buckets, hand sanitizers and nose masks to the market women as a measure to curb the spread. "We know the virus is still with so we are ensuring that the spread i...

The Northern Regional Minister, Salifu Saeed, has cut sod for the construction of the solid and liquid waste treatment plant at Gbalahi in Sagnarigu Municipality in Tamale. He observed that the facility, which is expected to create 75 direct and over 200 indirect jobs, will help address the unemployment in the region while addressing the rural-urban migration. The project will help in creating job for the teaming youth which will help curb rural-urban migration” he stressed.  The minister further stressed that the waste treatment plants will enhance cleanliness in the region and improve on the sanitation which was becoming a concern to the municipal and district assemblies.   With Tamale being adjudged the third largest and fastest growing city in the country, the minister said “A very clean environment will give the city a dignified look". He therefore urged the citizens to practice preventive measures to avoid contracting diseases as "poor sanitation goes with health pr...