16 Sep 2019

When Selassie Tay saw Grace for the first time in 2015, he was immediately reminded of his mother. Standing in the middle of her mud house in Sogakope, Ghana, Grace had a basket on her head and was heading to one of her several odd jobs, the money from which she and her three children barely eked out a living. The children weren’t in school and often went hungry because Grace struggled t...

24 Jun 2019

The rise of women in entrepreneurship is not necessarily associated with the pace of their country’s wealth and economic development as this latest Index on women’s entrepreneurship has shown. The second edition of Mastercard Index of Women’s Entrepreneurship (MIWE) revealed that some of the least wealthy and developed economies have higher women business ownership rates than their wealt...

24 Jun 2019

A deputy Minister of Education in charge of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET), Gifty Twum Ampofo, has revealed that government initiated some bold steps aimed at giving the needed recognition to technical and vocational skills in the country. Among the initiatives, she noted, is the development of policies, strategies and legal frameworks meant to reform and strengthe...

07 Feb 2019

Sogakofe is a beautiful town located in the South Tongu District of the Volta Region of Ghana. Located along the lower Volta River, makes weather conditions really interesting. Noted for its wonderful resorts, river sighting, spa, popular bread, fried and spicy turkey (dↄkugbi) fried and dried oysters (adordi), fried tiny fishes (one-man thousand), biscuits (ayigbe biscuits), and “abolo”...