NEWS IN GHANA

“The La Community Bank Limited, (LCBL) one of Ghana's premier rural banks is set to go hi-tech in order to stay competitive with commercial banks in business and equally check fraud in dealing with its clients in the country”, Mr. B.A. Gogo, acting Board Chairman of the bank has revealed. http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/business/La-Community-Bank-Limited-set-to-go-hi-tech-365056 "The bank will also result to the use of social media as tool to inform it’s cherished customers on its daily operations and also market its services timely to their clients” he hinted. He said: “We have a Susu product which we've realized that when the collectors received money from customers on daily basis to be deposited in their accounts on their behalf, they don’t bring it to the bank so we are going electronic where the collector has to put the money into a device and it goes into the customer’s account instantly so the customer will then receive an SMS notification indicat...

New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary Candidate for Agona West Constituency, Mrs. Cynthia Morrison, has criticized the ongoing demolition exercise at Sodom and Gomorrah, describing it as a cruel move. According to her, the ongoing demolition by the Accra Mayor, Alfred Oko Vanderpuije, has rendered thousands of the slum dwellers homeless. http://www.myjoyonline.com/politics/2015/june-25th/sodom-and-gomorrah-demolition-govt-very-insensitive-mp-aspirant.php The recently elected MP candidate said the move by Mr Vanderpuije is 'insensitive'. She has appealed to Government to do something quickly to alleviate the plight of the affected people. She told Joy News in an exclusive interview on Tuesday that although Government has the power to do what it deems appropriate it acted with high-handedness against the slum dwellers, neglecting their plight. Cynthia Morrison says the timing in particular was wrong. “It’s a very insensitive decision taken by AMA, though Govern...

The Accra Chapter of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) has organized a 3-days sensitization conference on IT Audit, Information Security and Risk Insights in Africa. Participants of the ISACA's IT Audit,Information Security & Risk Insights 2015 Conference in a pose The conference dubbed “ISACA’s IT Audit Information Security and Risk Insights 2015” brought together 150 participants made up of IT personnel’s from various Corporate Institutions; both public   and private including Chief Executive Officers, Owners and Heads of IT Companies in addition to ISACA members within 4 major   West African Countries namely; Togo, Nigeria, Benin and Ghana. The 3-days forum is expected to help participants address some of the key issues confronting Africans in promoting ICT as a tool for national development. Some of the key  issues ranges from Cyber-crime, system failures, infrastructure, data and above all how to come out with innova...

 Skyfalls Natural Mineral Water in collaboration with Star Micro insurance Service Limited has donated 1000 bags of sachet water to support victims of the recent floods disaster at Kaneshie and Nima in Accra.  T he initiative was a two-day relief program well coordinated by one of Ghana’s finest and quality mineral water, Skyfalls Natural Mineral Water and Star Micro Insurance Service Limited seeking to   relieve the plight of victims of the twin flood and fire disaster; the first of which was donated to residents of Odawna on Thursday.  http://www.myjoyonline.com/news/2015/June-18th/skyfalls-others-donate-to-floodfire-victims.php Richmond Owusu, Managing Director of Jares Investment Global Limited, Producers of Skyfalls Natural Mineral Water and Edible Ice Cubes in a brief speech during the presentation of the items, noted taking insurance policies are very crucial to survival pointing to the fact that in difficult times like this, people who are cove...