Kofi Ahovi

 MTN Ghana has been adjudged the Marketing-oriented Telecommunications Company of the Year 2022 at the 34th Chartered Institute of Marketing, Ghana (CIMG) annual national awards held in Accra. In addition, MTN was maintained in the CIMG Hall of Fame for the fourth time. David Narh, Digital Channels Growth Manager at MTN led the team to receive the awards on behalf of the organization. Commenting on the awards, the Chief Executive Officer of MTN Ghana, Selorm Adadevoh commended Noel Kojo-Ganson, the Chief Commercial Officer, and the Marketing team for planning and implementing various marketing and advertising communications tailored towards meeting customers’ need, creating a distinct and sustainable competitive advantage and building a good image for the company. The citation for the Telecoms Company of the Year reads: Your resolve to make the lives of customers a whole lot brighter was not a mere cliché as you have, over the period become synonymous with communications, through t...

 The Senior Manager, Enterprise Information, Security and Governance at MTN, Jacqueline Hanson-Kotei has called on Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) to build the requisite capacity and resources to manage cybersecurity issues and challenges. She made the call at the second MTN Business Executive Breakfast series held in Accra last week. Jacqueline Hanson- Kotei said, “most SMEs face cybersecurity issues and challenges because they do not have the requisite tools and resources. Risk assessment of the loopholes and vulnerabilities in a business and an understanding of regulatory requirements regarding your space can serve as a good foundation for mitigating this risk. It is also important to look at the people you work with i.e., your staff and third parties because their digital practices could pose a risk to your business.’ Organized under the theme, ‘Cybersecurity and Digital Transformation of SMEs,’ the forum presented the opportunity for key industry players and experts ...

 The Chief Executive Officer of MTN Ghana, Selorm Adadevoh, has been adjudged CEO of the Year - Telecom at the 2 nd edition of the Ghana CEO Vision and Awards held in Accra. The CEO of Mobile Money Limited (MML), Shaibu Haruna was also adjudged CEO of the Year – FinTech Service Provider. Selorm Adadevoh’s award is in recognition of his achievements in the areas of sustainability, leadership excellence, innovation and others in the telecoms space which has contributed to job creation to support the growth of Ghana’s economy. Receiving the award on behalf of Selorm, Patrick Afari, General Manager, Supply Chain Management and General Services, expressed appreciation to the organizers for the award. He noted that the award will go a long way to inspire MTN to do more for Ghanaians and the country. “We are poised to become a technology company where we commit to creating an enabling platform for players to leverage on”, he said. Shaibu Haruna was honoured for spearheading innovative pr...

  In its quest to cut rising energy costs for industries, the Association of Ghana Industries-Energy Service Centre (AGI-ESC), has launched a network to promote the use of renewable energy to reduce cost in energy usage within Ghana’s industrial sector. Dubbed “Energy Efficiency Network (EEN)”, it will provide a platform for industries in Ghana to improve their energy efficiency, thereby reducing their energy costs and carbon emissions and enhancing their competitiveness within the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) framework. The network, made up of 12 industries across various sectors including plastic, steel, food, agribusiness, pharmaceutical and cosmetics, will run until December 2025. Each member company will be provided with technical support, including an ISO 50002:2014 compliant comprehensive audit that will enable companies to assess their energy and CO2 savings potential, estimate the cost of the required investment, analyse the economic benefits of the measure...

  The International Monetary Fund has played down any fears of the impact of rising treasury bill rates on the country’s debt restructuring efforts and debt sustainability, a critical component of the three-year Extended Credit Facility (ECF) with the Bretton Woods institution. The fund said the current treasury bill rates were consistent with its expectations in achieving debt sustainability over the medium term. Responding to a question from the Graphic Business at a joint press conference in Accra, the IMF Chief Mission to Ghana, Stephane Roudet, said the cost at which the government was financing itself was of no concern to the IMF. However, speaking on the Graphic Business X series dialogue on October 9, Economist, Professor Godwin Bokpin, said the rising T-bill rate was a negative outcome that must be corrected immediately by bringing down inflation and the policy rate.  After declining to an eight-year low of 19 per cent in March 2023, from 35.5 per cent at the end of 2...

  The Government in the issuance of its 91, 182 and 364 days treasury bills exceeded its target of raising GH₵2.10bn. The Treasury in the auction of the short-term securities exceeded its target by some GHS 466m as it managed to raise GH₵2.57bn from the debt market. Bids for the 91, 182 and 364 days T-Bills amounted to GH₵2,170 million, GH₵375 million and GH₵80 million respectively with the Government accepting bids amounting to GH₵2,155m, GH₵353m and GH₵67m made for the 91,182 and 364-day T-Bill. The 91,182 and 364 days T-Bills were auctioned at interest rates of 29.1 per cent, 31.2 per cent and 33.0 per cent respectively.

  The Founder of Breast Care International (BCI), Dr Beatrice Addae Wiafe, has advised the citizenry, particularly young women, to desist from taking alcohol excessively, smoking shisha and applying bleaching agents on their skin as they are some of the risk factors of breast cancer.  At a rally after the BCI breast cancer walk in Accra last Saturday, Dr Wiafe stated that although there were no known cause of breast cancer, there were some risk factors that could lead one to contracting the disease and therefore, advised both men and women to live healthy lives and avoid those risk factors. “Previously, Ghanaian women were not into this smoking of shisha but now we have a lot of women smoking, especially our young women. One puff of shisha equals 10 rolls of cigarettes and if care is not taken, we would have a lot more of our women dealing with all sorts of cancers”. Lack of exercise and lately the chemicals that some women bleach with have all been found as risk factors,” she...