By Enock Akonnor enockakonnor2013@gmail.com Stoppage of electricity supply to Kejetia market has triggered a lethal reaction from the leadership of the traders against the Kumasi City Mayor Hon Sam Payne. From Wednesday 22nd June 2022 at about 10:00am till now, the whole market has been kicked out of the national grid by ECG officials owing
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Just In: Bolt to offer 70% discount to customers in Kumasi
Bolt riders in Kumasi are set for a period of mega discounts after the leading ride-hailing platform announced that all new riders in Kumasi can enjoy a 70% discount on their first ride using the names of some popular areas in the city as Promo Code. The names of the promo codes for the campaign
Read moreWhy People Hate Insurance Companies These Days
Welcome home! Why is it that many people hate insurance companies so much these days? Why at all do people describe insurance companies with the worst adjectives they can ever think of? Why do insurance policy holders think they would be better off without insurance? Well, here are seven key reasons why most people think
Read more“Tourism Sector Has Capacity To Resolve Challenges”-Kenya High Commissioner To Ghana
Story by Enock Akonnor; enockakonnor2013@gmail.com Kenya’s High Commissioner to Ghana His Excellency Eliphas M Barine has underscored strategic conditions needed for a rapid face-lifting of Ghana’s and for that matter Africa’s tourism industry. He said at a Public-Private Partnership Forum (PPPF) held in Kumasi on 24th March 2024 by officials of Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA)
Read more“Stop Complaining About Taxes”- Board Chair (Ghana Tourism Authority) To Sector Players
Story by Enock Akonnor; enockakonnor2013@gmail.com Board Chairman for Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) Hon Seth Adjei Baah has urged players within the sector to quit complaining about taxes and other tariffs imposed on them by government. Their focus per his admonishing should be centered on wealth creation, explaining that if players are able to generate much
Read moreRot @ Racecourse Market!!! Traders Expose Leaders Over Ghs 5.0 Charge From Late Arrivals
Unofficial revenue on trade pegged at GHs5 is discouraging most traders in Kumasi from relocating to the popular racecourse market. Authorities of Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly are effecting frantic measures to ensure that traders affected by the 2nd phase of the famous Kejetia-central market redevelopment project are moved to a land provided by them for
Read moreKGL Group Signs 10-year Partnership agreement with NLA
KGL Group has signed a 10-year partnership agreement with the National Lotteries Authority (NLA) effective January 2022. This agreement gives KGL Group the sole license to operate NLA’s 5/90 online game as a collaborator for a 10-year period. In November 2019, through its technology and game innovations subsidiaries, KGL Technology and KEED respectively, KGL Group
Read moreHon Osei Assibey Makes Impact As NSS Supports Tourism Industry With New Module
The National Service Scheme (NSS) under the leadership of Hon Osei Assibey has deployed 700 service persons to a new module created to support the tourism industry. Dubbed NSS-GTA Support programme, the initiative will have NSS post national service personnel to various businesses and establishments in the tourism sector; both private and public, at no
Read moreKMA Boss Goes Mad!!! Vows To Close Down Shops In Kumasi
Kumasi City Mayor Hon Sam Pyne turned wild against traders and commercial drivers in Kumasi who failed to partake in Saturday (18th December 2021) morning’s clean-up exercise. Despite the weeklong announcement made on the airwaves ahead of the event, scores of businessmen and women within the CBD notably at areas including Adehyeman, Adehye3 market, Acheamfour
Read moreKGL Acquires 1st Otumfuo Commemorative Gold Coin for 1 million Ghana Cedis
KGL Group, a world class brand and one of the leading private sector companies in Africa has acquired the first ever 24- carat Commemorative Gold Coin for 1 million Ghana cedis in support of the establishment of a cultural resource centre which will employ the latest technologies and IT platforms to promote activities related to
Read moreFairtrade’s Women School of Leadership Holds Graduation Ceremony In Cote d’Ivoire Abidjan
Fairtrade Africa has held a graduation ceremony for its Women School of Leadership programme in Cote d’Ivoire. The event took place today on 10th December and was preceded by a final workshop on December 9, 2021, to review and learn from the programme’s implementation activities over the past nine months. In attendance were Mr. Moussa
Read moreKGL Group Celebrates Otumfuo, A Pillar of Peace
KGL Group has offered its congratulations to Otumfuo, His Royal Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, King of Asanteman for his dedication to Peace and Prosperity to Asanteman and Ghana as a whole. In over the two decades and counting of his reign as the Sixteenth Asantehene, Otumfuo has chalked so many accomplishments and good deeds
Read moreAccomplished Diaspora Entrepreneur and Philanthropist Chairs GIPC BOARD
Entrepreneur, Philanthropist and Executive Chairman of KGL Group, Mr. Alex Apau Dadey, has been conferred the board chairman of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre, GIPC. This comes off after he was in January 2018, appointed onto the Governing Board of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) by the President of Ghana, His Excellency Nana Addo
Read moreKGL Group Committed to Delivering Value in Excess of GHc100Milllion Per Annum
The successful operations of KGL Group and its subsidiary companies, KGL Technology Limited, KEED and KGL Foundation, are set to contribute significantly to the national economy and Government of Ghana at an expected cumulative value in excess of 100 million Ghana Cedis per annum. KGL Group has contributed significantly to revenue growth and capacity development
Read moreK.Badu Agrochemicals CEO To Receive International Honorary Fellowship Award
Dr. Augustine Kofi Badu,Chief Executive Officer of K. Badu Agrochemicals is set to receive an International Honorary Fellowship Award at The Law Faculty Auditorium , Kwame Nkrumah University Of Science and Technology come 10th November,2021 by George Fox University,USA. In a letter of notice addresed to Dr.Augustine Kofi Boadu ahead of the Honorary Conferment,it was
Read moreDr. Frank Awuah Adjei Donates Maternity Block Extension To KNUST
Dr. Frank Awuah Adjei, a businessman and philanthropist, has donated a Maternity Block Extension he built to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Hospital in Kumasi in the Ashanti region. The Maternity Block Extension was commissioned on Wednesday, 27th October, 2021 by His Royal Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene and the Chancellor
Read moreSammy Awuku Makes Big Shot For NLA On GHs 250 Million Consolidated Fund
Director-General of the National Lottery Authority (NLA,) Samuel Awuku, has disclosed that the Authority has contributed over GH¢250 million to the Consolidated Fund in the past ten years. The Authority, he said, has also supported institutions, groups and individuals with cash donations, medical equipment and infrastructure in the areas of health, education, sports and the
Read moreNew KMA Boss (Sam Pyne) Restores Power At Kejetia Market
New Mayor for Kumasi Metropolis Hon Sam Pyne has fast tracked the restoration of electricity power supply at Kejetia market. His swift intervention was called to play after the entire market was disconnected from the national GRID, subjecting it to hours a total blackout during the wee hours of Thursday 14th October 2021. After an
Read moreAgenda 2030: Fairtrade and B Lab Launch ‘Key’ SDG Partnership
BONN/ NEW YORK – Fairtrade, the world’s most recognized label for social justice and sustainability, and B Lab, a global network of organizations dedicated to transforming the economic system through innovations like the B Corp certification, are set to announce a new partnership aimed at advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through responsible
Read more“We’re Not Going…Unless You ‘Uproot’ Us With Excavator” -Ash Reg Minister Dared
Traders of Kumasi Central market have announced that nothing can compel them to vacate their current place of trade popular called “Bode” to make way for the redevelopment of the area. They have also sent a strong verbal notice to the Ashanti regional minister Hon Simon Osei Mensah, insofar daring him to excavate them (traders)
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