Ghana Opportunity Network

Local Participation in Oil & Gas industry

The Private Enterprise Foundation (PEF) in a recent project embarked upon to identify viable opportunities available for local participation in Ghana’s emerging oil and gas industry has outlined a range of opportunities available for Ghanaian participation. Among the opportunities PEF assets are ideal for Ghanaians are; Banking and Insurance Catering and hospitality services Cleaning and [...]

About Ghana’s B credit rating

Ghana’s ‘B’ rating, a downgrade from its previous ‘B+’ rating by Standards & Poor (S & P) has been received with much skepticism and surprise by stakeholders both within and outside the country. Razia Khan, Regional Head of Research, Africa Standard Chartered Bank, stated that “although Ghana’s challenges are well known, the ratings action just [...]

The plight of the tenant in Ghana

Will Government ever be able to enforce the Tenancy Act? Somewhere in a suburb of Accra, one property-owner triples the size of his or her house in three years, with new construction work underway – all to the detriment of the tenant – and this isn’t an isolated case. A practice that started among a [...]

Ashesi Alumni on the World Affairs Council

The World Affairs Council presents leadership and alumni from Ashesi University in Ghana for a panel discussion on fostering innovation and ethical leadership in Africa with the goal of sustained development on the continent. Representing a diversity of expertise and backgrounds, panelists will provide an engaging discussion on their experiences in working for progress in Africa. [...]

Ghana hosts Getenergy for West Africa

Oil and Gas exploration and production activity in Ghana and West Africa have been steadily increasing in the past few years. With that increase in production has come an increased focus on extracting national value from the resources, managing the aspirations of some of the most dynamic and enterprise people in the world and preventing [...]

Introducing GhanaLive.TV

Finally after several months of testing, contract negotiations and a lot of dedicated team working around the clock, GhanaLive.Tv is now ready to deliver LIVE BROADCASTING FROM GHANA to the Diaspora around the world. At the moment you will be able to watch TV3 LIVE from Ghana and 3 more channels will follow by the [...]

Merchant Bank to Collaborate with Wharton Business School, Pennsylvania

Merchant Bank is positioning itself to become a key player in the financial service industry in Ghana. Alberta Quarcoopome, Manager, Learning and Development made this remark when the bank interacted with a team from Wharton University of Pennsylvania Business School in Accra. She said the purpose of the novel engagement was to offer the staff [...]

Gas at last

The long-awaited plan of the West African Gas Pipeline Company (WAPCO) to supply gas to the Volta River Authority (VRA) through an alternative delivery point in Tema finally came on stream yesterday with the delivery of 60 million British thermal units (mmbtu) of free flow gas to the authority for power generation. The VRA has [...]

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