SARPONG'S BLOG

By: Fred Yaw Sarpong United Bank of Africa (UBA) Ghana, a leading player in Ghana’s banking sector, organized Africa Trade Forum in Accra on Friday 27 June, 2014 at the Golden Tulip Hotel. The forum, which financial experts have described as one of the biggest forums attracted highly industry players, was under the theme: “Driving Regional Trade Business through strategic partnerships.” The forum, which was the first of it kinds, organized by the bank was to help business expansion within the Africa region. Also, it was to discussed and explored ways of facilitating regional trading and strategic partnership within the region. This thought leadership initiative brought together the best brains within this field to deliberate and profess innovative solutions that will help promote trading within the continent. Since its inception about ten years ago, UBA Ghana has focused among other things on leveraging its Africa network to facilitate trade across Africa. This led...

By: Fred Yaw Sarpong & Emelia Esumanba The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketia, as popularly known as General Mosquito has called for calm in the New Patriotic Party (NPP). Mr. Nketia said Ghana is acclaim as an icon of multi party democracy on the African continent and because of that anything that negatively impact on that image must be a source of concern for everybody, whether you are that particular or not. He thinks that what happens at the New Patriotic Party (NPP) headquarters was not a good commentary on Ghana’s democracy at all. General Mosquito was commenting on the recent clashes that took place at the biggest opposition party, NPP National Head Office. “Our democracy has come of age, and issue of internal wrangling in a major political party in the country affects Ghana’s democracy,” he added. The NDC General Secretary said as a Chairman of the Political Parties General Secretary caucus in Ghana, he ...

By: Mathias Amoah Barely after a month of launching ‘Heathline App to assist Ghanaians who will problem on health issues, Vodafone Ghana announced that more 10,000 times of the application has been already downloaded. According to Vodafone, there is no doubt the app will be a tremendous success considering the smartphone penetration in the country.   Senior Corporate Communications Manager, Gifty Bingley said Vodafone’s newest innovation drive to empower Ghanaians about their health is fast growing. “We take healthcare serious, hence our commitment to ensure credible health information through the award winning television programme, Heallthline, and via the phone on Healthline 255,’ she noted. Bingley said an application which is accessible by anyone, anywhere, is a natural progression to ensure “we are touching everyone and we are very pleased with the success recorded so far.”   The App, which is available on Google play store for free, provides Ghanaians ...

The President of the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI), Mr. James Asare-Adjeiis urging all private sector players to help make the regional integration initiative within ECOWAS a reality. According to the AGI President, ECOWAS is running out of time in its pursuit of a borderless region agenda for the free movement of goods and people, especially at the time that the region is in negotiation with the European Union on the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs). He made this call when the Association undertook a working visit to Brussels under the AGI-BDI partnership project for policy advocacy from May 31 to June 7, 2014. Led by Mr. James Asare-Adjei, the high profile AGI delegation had an intensive engagement on the operation of the European Union’s single market with the view to gaining more insight to advance the private sector’s advocacy drive on regional integration within ECOWAS. Brussels is a strategic base for most foreign missions in terms of their proximity to th...