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The Impact of Mobile Financial Services on Ghana’s Economy. How relevant?

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Mobile Financial Service is a generic name referred to all kinds of mobile money service transactions in Ghana. However, various telecommunication network Providers in Ghana have different names for it. For example MTN calls it MTN Mobile Money, while Airtel calls it Airtel money, and for Tigo users, it is known as Tigo Cash. But have no doubt at all about the name it’s still the same business. Cash transfer has often been considered a cumbersome process especially when it is between banks and requires elaborate paperwork. To add to the discomfort, a transfer could take hours or even days but same cannot be said of mobile money transfer services which are done with just clicks of buttons on the mobile handset and it appears this is creating a jobs for many. In Tadzevu, a small town located in the Ketu District of the Volta Region with a population of about 25,000. Most of the people living here are peasant farmers and petty traders. There are no banks here for m...

Diplomatic Platform put smiles on face of renowned highlife musician Jewel Ackah

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An NDC  youth group, Diplomatic Platform has presented   assorted food   items including an unspecified amount of cash meant to put smiles on the face of the ace Ghanaian highlife musician, Jewel Kofi Ackah whose immense contribution to the NDC  has propelled the party  into greater heights.  The items included 3 bags of rice, carton of corned beef, a carton of milo, a carton of milk, 3 boxes of water, a box of sardine, a gallon of oil, 3 boxes of tuna flakes and 3 boxes of Don Simon fruit Juice. The group showed the appreciation when they paid a courtesy call on the highlife hitmaker at his residence located in Tema Community 3, within Tema metropolis last Saturday August, 1. Diplomatic Platform administrator, Julius Logass, who spoke on behalf of the group during the presentation, disclosed the donation amounts to a just little token the group intended to offer in order to help cushion him in order to meet his ...