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BET announced plans to move forward with the “BET AWARDS” 2020, which will celebrate the brightest stars across music, television, film, sports, and philanthropy this Sunday, 28 June 2020 from midnight on DStv channel 129 and GOtv channel 121. Using an array of innovative techniques and artist-generated content, the show will continue, allowing the audience to join a celebration of black love, joy, pride, and power with an all-star lineup taking to TV’s biggest stage. 2020 marks both the 20th anniversary of the awards and BET’s 40th anniversary. This year’s show will continue the rich history of providing fans with those special, not to be missed moments.  “The BET Awards are a seminal event the biggest celebration of Black culture, Black accomplishment, Black excellence, and Black potential,” said Scott Mills, President of BET. “Our community, and the many millions who love the Black culture, look to the BET Awards for signature moments of enrichment, entertainment and empowerment...

Insurance Group, Hollard Ghana has partnered Melcom Ghana to make insurance more accessible to Ghanaians and widen insurance penetration. The partnership will see Hollard provide insurance, starting with life insurance and savings policies to customers of the retail giant, Melcom Ghana, via an in-store Hollard-on-the-go booth. “We continue to do our part to improve insurance penetration in Ghana by making insurance more accessible. Melcom is where Ghana shops so it makes sense to enable shoppers to easily pick up insurance as they do their regular shopping. Melcom customers can shop, buy insurance, pay premiums, make claims or simply enquire.” said the Group CEO of Hollard Ghana, Patience Akyianu, at the launch held at the Melcom Plus store at North Industrial Area in Accra. “There is great benefit when insurance and retail giants’ partner. Our partnership with Melcom speaks to our continued effort to put our customers and Ghanaian public at the forefront of what we do. We trust Melcom...

Ogilvy Africa today announced the rollout of the region’s first real-time marketing product that offers social intelligence and analytics, community management and content innovations; in a unified offering. Christened FEED, the product aims to connect brands to popular culture to keep pace with rapidly changing audience interest. FEED is being rolled out across Africa in a phased manner. The agency chose June 23rd as the launch date to commemorate the 109th birth anniversary of its global founder, David Ogilvy. “With FEED, we are delighted to see real-time marketing become a reality in this region. Brands have recognized the importance of having their finger on the consumer’s pulse for decades now, and there are several offerings in the market to serve different aspects of that opportunity. The agility and compatibility of these offerings however, remains a challenge. FEED has been developed to evolve the disparate offerings into one complete solution.”, said Vikas Mehta, CEO - Ogilvy...

Emirates SkyCargo has grown its operations in Africa to include Accra, and Ghanaian businesses can now benefit from weekly cargo flights from Accra to Dubai starting 25 June, 2020. The airline has established this short term schedule which utilizes the belly hold capacity on its wide body Boeing 777-300 ER passenger aircraft. Cathrine Wesley, Emirates’ Country Manager Ghana said, “As an extremely agile and customer-focused business, we are very committed in supporting the Ghanaian economy and helping local businesses maintain continuity by keeping their supplies running across essential industries.” Emirates SkyCargo started its operations in Ghana in 2004.  Emirates SkyCargo has helped import a variety of goods including mobile phones, garments, leather, beverages and personal effects. It has also facilitated the export of local produce including fresh and cut fruits. . Emirates SkyCargo is now operating scheduled cargo flights to over 80 global destinations every week...

FBM MUZIK frontline DJ Coz is back on the music scene with a brand new love story embodied in a creatively crafted masterpiece song dubbed ‘Uyoyo’. The track according to the Ghanaian-based Nigerian vocal powerhouse will feature your mindset into a deep breath of finding what love speaks. In his words ‘Uyoyo’ will redefine his gesture of an unforgettable love story in this new single.

Insurance group, Hollard Ghana has announced an initiative to enable more people to create and secure a better future. Dubbed “H.Insured: All about insurance” the initiative is a webinar series to be held this month of June at 4 pm on Fridays, June 19th, and 26th, as part of the company’s insurance month activities. The H.Insured webinar series will be different to the usual industry webinar format. It will be jargon-free and conversational to help demystify insurance. Attendees will find answers to their questions about how insurance relates to their individual and business lives. “It’s not about what could go wrong but what can go right;” “How to safeguard your family, possessions, and self;” “What COVID-19 teaches us about insurance;” “Ready for the new normal? Insurance in Ghana” and more, are the discussion topics in the H.Insured webinar series. H.Insured will feature resource persons from the insurance industry who understand the needs of Ghanaians and can speak to...

Our attention has been drawn to some information circulating on social media and online news websites concerning ‘breaches’ in the privacy rights of Vodafone Ghana customers. This information is a gross misrepresentation of the facts. In March 2020, The President of Ghana, H.E. Nana Akufo-Addo, passed an Executive Instrument (E.I. 63) that mandated the mobile network operators, including Vodafone Ghana to submit subscriber information known as call data records (CDRs) to the National Communications Authority (NCA). This formed part of the government’s contact tracing initiative in the ongoing fight against COVID-19. All the mobile network operators complied with the E.I 63. The Executive Instrument was subsequently challenged by a customer, who filed an application at the High Court for an injunction to stop all mobile network operators from sharing his data with the National Communications Authority (NCA). Upon receipt of the injunction application, Vodafone Ghana immediately stopped ...

TV personality, Berla Mundi in association with Absa Bank has introduced a fun bi weekly financial titbit series on social media. Dubbed as ‘Berla Absa Tuesdays’, the series aims to give financial advice to help her fans, and the general public, to make better choices in life.   The first episode which rolled out on Tuesday, June 2 was on the topic ‘Spend less to save more”.   According to Berla, “There is almost nothing fun about looking over your bank statement and realising you spent a quarter of your income on things you had no need for. You’ll be surprised to find out that even seemingly insignificant expenses, cumulatively, may be taking much of your income than you can imagine. If you are determined to achieve the goals you have been focused on for so long, you may have to detoxify your spending habits—just as doctors advise that you cut back on sugar or alcohol.”   “Yes, it is hard work up front, but if you are looking to tackle a major life change—whether that is...

Hollard Insurance launches the first virtual insurance chatbot in Ghana with the goal to make insurance more accessible to Ghanaians via popular messaging channels such as WhatsApp. The innovative product, called Hollard ChatInsure is currently hosted on WhatsApp, by an Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot, called “Araba Hollard.” Araba is the first virtual insurer in the country offering end-to-end insurance services all within the messaging application and without human intervention. Users simply save her number, 0242 426 412 and message her on WhatsApp to access her services. At launch, Araba offers renters and homeowners, Home and Home Contents insurance. They can initiate, process, pay and receive policy documents on WhatsApp covering burglary, fire and allied perils to their possessions and physical building structure. The initiative is being innovatively launched virtually with a live show at the company’s head-office, streamed from its Facebook and Instagram pages, and on Joy a...

Stunning Ghanaian television personality, gifted actress and extraordinary marketing communications professional, Michelle Attoh, has been announced as the host the all new season of Today’s Woman, a talk show which airs on TV3 Network. The new season of the weekly show, Today’s Woman, is scheduled to premiere on Sunday 14th June 2020 at 3PM. The show is dedicated to supporting women in their chosen fields of endeavor and focuses on educating as well as inspiring them to be the very best at what they do for a living. The conversation on the show will be around women’s health and wellness, balancing work and family life, capacity building and value addition for career progression as well as providing a community for women to help one another. Today’s Woman is a program which combines fun, celebrity news and human-interest stories with each episode offering a proven tip that makes the entire idea of ‘doing it all’ a little less complicated. In addition, viewers are offered the opportunit...

The Coalition of Event Managers and Suppliers, an interest group of professionals in Ghana's events ecosystem, are starting a campaign to contribute to ongoing COVID-19 relief efforts. Named Mask4All, the initiative according to the group, is to help garner support in whichever form towards combating the pandemic. To this end the group will embark on a massive support drive to mobilize face mask for distribution to the vulnerable while putting out educational material on multiple mediums to help in the fight against the spread of COVID-19. The group says the project ties in to that of one of its key partners, Accra Metropolitan Assembly’s ‘Wear nose Mask’ campaign, launched in April. Key Media Partner of the initiative, Multimedia Brodcasting Company say they are excited to be a part. "This is an initiative worth supporting and we are glad to be playing a significant role. This definitely does a lot for the fight against COVID-19," says Abdulai Awudu, General Manager, Mul...

Insurance group, Hollard Ghana, in support of the fight against the spread of COVID-19 has donated hundreds of Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) to the Kamina Barracks Hospital, Northern Electricity Distribution Company Ltd (NEDCo), Regional office of the Ghana Education Service, staff and management of the Tamale Airport, and the Tamale-Bolgatanga Transport Union all in the Northern Region to ensure their safety. The Presentation The presentation was made by the Branch Manager, Regional Markets Hollard Insurance Ghana, Mr. Sulley Mohammed Ali, in the presence of the Hollard Life Assurance Sales Manager, Mr. Mutaru Abdul-Hamid. The Medical Superintendent of the Kamina Barracks Hospital, Dr. Aaron Anos, received the items on behalf of his outfit. In his speech, Mr. Ali said, “Every frontline health worker must be kept safe particularly in a pandemic such as COVID. This donation aligns to our purpose to treat everyone with care and dignity and is a part of our company’s ...

Ghana’s number one urban radio YFM has begun a new campaign “Y Refresh” to build an exciting and more successful culture that will keep listeners and community entertained and engaged. The station has lined-up vibrant talents with refreshed programmes ready to take the radio brand to greater heights. It has out-doored new contents such as “Lockdown Radio” to keep listeners at home amidst covid-19, “Y Leaderboard Series” to inspire the youth, Monthly-themed radio programme series focusing on key areas such as health, education, technology among others; and the radio party show known as the “Y Party Pressure”. The station has also activated its CSR initiative “Y Cares” to re-enforce the brand’s force for social good. Programmes Manager of YFM Accra, Eddy Blay shared more insights on Y Refresh: ‘’Y Refresh is to give ourselves the opportunity to compete and cement our win in order to keep listeners entertained, educated and informed. We are putting our audience first in these changes. We ...