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Wed, December 5th, 08:09 · Brandon Gregory

MTN SIM card sales halted in Ghana

Due to alleged service deterioration, MTN Ghana has been ordered to stop selling new SIM cards to the public. → Read more
Tue, December 4th, 14:19 · Robin Okuthe

Interactive websites targeted to engage Diaspora Africans in developing Africa

The International Office of Migration, the world’s largest immigration agency, has today, in partnership with the Ghanaian government, launched a website called Ghanaiandiaspora.com, dedicated to connecting the nearly 3 million Ghanians living in the Diaspora with the country’s development. → Read more
Mon, December 3rd, 12:41 · Paul Adepoju

Nokia launches Lumia series in Accra, Ghana

Nokia has launched and introduced Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 smartphones in Ghana and is targeting the business community before Christmas. → Read more
Mon, December 3rd, 08:39 · Vincent Matinde

Ghana’s Fidelity Bank unveils new data centre by IBM

Due to pressure on its backend digital platform, Ghana’s Fidelity Bank has partnered with IBM to ease the pressure in the face of expansion plans. → Read more
Wed, November 28th, 08:40 · Paul Adepoju

Ghana schools and research institutions to get 400,000 laptops in 2013

Ghanaian students and researchers are set to receive 400,000 laptops to aid teaching, innovation and research next year. → Read more
Thu, November 22nd, 15:07 · Paul Adepoju

Ghana’s leading banks connect to allow more convenient ATM use

An inter-bank switching and processing system enabling Ghana’s banks to network their ATMs has been launched. → Read more
Wed, November 21st, 13:45 · Paul Adepoju

Ghana promotes ICT education with computer distribution

The Ghanaian government is to add information and communication technology (ICT) to its schools’ curriculum by making computers and other gadgets available to students. → Read more
Tue, November 20th, 14:24 · Paul Adepoju

Students to get community ICT centre In Ghana

The building work has begun on an information and technology centre for students in Oyibi, Greater Accra, and its neighbouring communities, as part of a special initiative aimed at bringing ICT to Ghanaians irrespective of their economic situation or place of abode. → Read more
Tue, November 20th, 07:38 · Paul Adepoju

MTN eulogizes Ghana’s late former Vice President

Telecoms giant MTN Ghana has joined the public eulogising of the nation’s former Vice President, Alhaji Aliu Mahama, as the nation mourns the late foremost politician and leader. → Read more
Mon, November 19th, 12:53 · Paul Adepoju

Ghana to unveil first technology hub

A partnership involving Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), telecom Vodafone and technology outfit mFriday aims to launch Ghana’s first technology hub. → Read more
Tue, November 13th, 12:54 · Elly Okutoyi

Dropifi named Global Startup Open 2012 winner

West Africa’s Dropifi has been named world’s best technology startup company, after garnering the grand prize in the 2012 Startup Open beating over 50 best and brightest new startups from 56 countries. → Read more
Fri, November 9th, 09:26 · Paul Adepoju

Airtel touches lives in Ghana through CSR

To transforming lives across the Ghana, Airtel has, through its corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative dubbed “Touching Lives”, awarded gifts to Rebecca Kwapong and Emmanuel Martey, both residents from Asesewa in the Manyo Krobo District of the Eastern Region. → Read more
Fri, November 9th, 07:20 · Paul Adepoju

Ghanaian locals save Vodafone millions worth of losses

To check cable theft in Ghana, reportedly affecting to the quality of telecommunications services, locals have initiated actions against vandalism of copper and fiber-optic cables. One of such is the recent tip off of the police by three residents of the Greater Accra Region, who on different occasions noted suspicious activities in the middle of the night. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 12:32 · Paul Adepoju

Glo Ghana records marginal reduction in subscriber base

Ghanaian telcos Glo Ghana has recorded the company’s first drop in the number of subscribers on its Glo Mobile network since it commenced operations in Ghana about five months ago. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 12:26 · Paul Adepoju

Ghanaian telcos lament over rising costs of cable cuts

Two of Ghana’s major ICT stakeholders National Communications Authority (NCA) and Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications are engaging other players in finding solutions to the incessant disruption of telecoms services, attributed to cable cuts that negatively affect service delivery. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 12:18 · Paul Adepoju

Ghana’s telecoms sector has created 1.5 million jobs, report

Aside from providing a wide array of services to Ghana’s population, telecommunications firms in the country play significant roles in developing the West African nation’s economy. → Read more
Fri, November 2nd, 12:20 · Paul Adepoju

Vodafone launches dynamic data tariff plan in Ghana

Telecommunications firm Vodafone has launched a pay-as-you-go data tariff in Ghana to enable its subscribers to pay less as they spend more time surfing the Net via their mobile devices. → Read more
Fri, November 2nd, 10:35 · Paul Adepoju

Ghana’s Internet leader charts course for escalating Africa’s Web use

Ghana’s Nii Quaynor, a leading African Internet figure and the head of the Africa Strategy Working Group (ASWG), has, alongside other stakeholders in Africa’s Internet community, revealed an initiative aimed at improving the continent’s involvement in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) multi-stakeholder model. → Read more
Wed, October 31st, 12:22 · Tom Jackson

Cyber cities central to African “renaissance”

The Director of the Ghana Cyber City project has said that such cities will take on great importance within the Africa tech scene, given that the continent is “undergoing an unprecedented renaissance.” → Read more
Tue, October 30th, 13:09 · Gabriella Mulligan

Focus on Herman Chinery-Hesse: “The Bill Gates of Ghana”

The man dubbed the “Bill Gates of Ghana” promotes technology as the only way for Africa to become prosperous, and professes a strong faith in the ability of African people to tackle their own issues for themselves. In doing so, he has stolen the lion’s share of the Ghanaian software market. → Read more