PPP pledges to streamline health insurance

A government of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) would streamline the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to make it run efficiently. Mr. Lawrence Appiah, the Ashanti Regional Chairman, said the list of diseases covered by the…

Mobile money saved Sierra Leone $10m in Ebola outbreak

A study by the United Nations has found that cashless mobile payments to Ebola response workers in Sierra Leone, resulted in cost savings of $10.7 million and massively reduced payment times, avoiding strike action and ensuring a stable…

Ethiopian Airlines to start flights to Istanbul

Ethiopian Airways has announced it is starting a thrice weekly flights to the capital of Turkey, Istanbul. In a press release issued and copied to ghanabusinessnews.com Thursday May 19, 2013, the airline said the services will be with…

Halt privatization of ECG – Trade Unions

The Public Utility Workers Union (PUWU) and the Public Services Workers Union (PSWU) has called on Government to halt the privatisation of Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). “We reiterate our strong opposition to the planned…

Ghanaians have more than 35 million mobile phones

By the close of 2015, statistics indicated that Ghana had 35,283,957 telephone subscribers, which represented a teledensity of 129.63 per cent. Mobile Data subscribers, as of December 2015 stood at 18,031,188, representing 65.74 per…