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Gbenga Odeyemi, MD, FBNBank (fifth from right) presenting the assorted food items and toiletries to Beatrice Nyarko, Deputy Head, Nursing Services at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital FBNBank Ghana Limited, a subsidiary of First Bank of Nigeria Limited has donated assorted food and household items to the Accra Psychiatric Hospital. This donation forms part of the bank’s    activities in commemoration of its Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CR&S) Week under the theme “Touching Lives: You First.” Making the donation on behalf of FBNBank Ghana Limited, Managing Director, Gbenga Odeyemi said the week-long commemoration of the CR&S Week underpins the bank’s brand promise to always put stakeholders’ first in all its activities. Mr. Odeyemi emphasized the fact that FBNBank was deeply touched by the needs of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital adding that as a caring and responsible corporate citizen, Management of the bank chose to provide food items such as bags of ric

June 16, 2018 witnessed a great comfort to the people of Ada-Foah in the Ada East Municipal Assembly of Greater Accra Region with a free National Health Insurance Scheme registration exercise, medical screening and a mobile clinic for the both the young and old. The exercise, which forms part of Okor Waves’ commitment under the leadership of Ms. Catherine Dela Dzivenu, to promote healthy living among residents of Ada East district and its surrounding communities, also featured a soccer gala, aimed at fostering unity in the area. The football gala played among four teams was won by the Ada-Foah Youth Club. Elders of the community were very excited with the support they received in the form of health services and fun games, which gave them hope for the future. The impact of the exercise by Okor Waves was evident as the people of Ada showed immense gratitude. Access to healthcare and treatment of patients has always been an issue of concern in some rural communities. Th

GN Reinsurance Company Limited has appointed Emmanuel Ekow Jonah as Head of Marketing & Business Development at GN Reinsurance Company.    Emmanuel is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute (UK), a Chartered Insurer and has decades of experience in the insurance practice of Ghana. He holds a BSc. (Hons) degree in Agricultural Science from the University of Ghana and a diploma in Business Administration from the Institute of Commercial Management in Bournemouth, England. He also holds both a diploma in Applied Insurance Studies and an Advance Diploma in Applied Insurance Studies from the Ghana Insurance College. He started his insurance career as a marketing executive at Vanguard Assurance and later trained as an underwriter, before moving on to join Insurance Solutions Limited as an insurance broking officer. By dint of diligent work, he rose through the ranks to become Senior Manager in charge of technical operations, sales/marketing, underwriting

The Managing Director of GLICO General Insurance Co. Ltd., Mr. Andrew Achampong-Kyei has appointed Mrs. Angela Asante as Head of National Sales.  This appointment is in line with the new Managing Director’s ambition to take GLICO General to higher heights in the non-life sector ranking. Prior to Mrs. Asante’s appointment as Head of National Sales, she was the Head of Reinsurance at GLICO GENERAL; a position she held for  four (4) years and consistently added value to the business year on year . Mrs. Angela Asante joined GLICO General in 2011 having worked with Santander Bank PLC, United Kingdom as a Retail Banker for close to three (3) years.   She has extensive work experience in the insurance industry and has progressively attained different roles at GLICO General. Hitherto becoming the Head of Reinsurance, Mrs. Asante was the Head of the Retail Workgroup department at GLICO General responsible for individual business lines and customer service delivery. Mrs. Asante is

RegencyNem Insurance Ghana Limited as part of its 1 st Anniversary celebration honored its Agents for their contribution towards the success story of RegencyNem. Addressing the Agents during its half yearly Awards Ceremony, the Managing Director, Mr. Bode Oseni thanked the Sales Representatives for their contribution towards the success story of RegencyNem especially with regards to their merger. The top five Agents were rewarded with cash prizes and flat screen television sets whilst all the Agents also received cash prizes.

Back again virtuoso artiste Rex Omar is preparing to release his next single entitled “ Paapa ” on June 15 ahead of this year’s Father’s Day celebration which falls on Sunday, June 17. The single is a groovy dance version of the song he released in May, 2015 and he co-produced it with ace producer Appietus. According to the hit maker, he decided to release the dance version of “ Paapa ” due to the numerous requests he had received for a danceable version of the catchy song he released as a paean to fathers. Rex Omar who took a break from the performing scene says his decision to release the dance version of the song is also to drive home the fact that fathers deserve to be celebrated as much as mothers. Rex also says “On my return to the scene, I promised my fans and music lovers that I will release a single every month and I have no option than to deliver on my promise.” He assured his numerous fans and music lovers that he has a stock of great music recording and he is st

Aspiring musicians, writers and movie makers have an opportunity to shoot for fame with the call of entries by the organisers of the Atuu Festival of Arts which climaxes in August. The Joint Committee of Collective Management Organisations (JCCMO) is calling for aspiring songwriters, musicians, poets, play writers, script writers, photographers and film makers aged between 15 – 21 years to send in entries into a competition. The competition is in three categories, Songwriting; Creative Writing which covers drama, poetry and fiction and Sight and Sounds. For the Songwriting category, the songs should be recorded and put on either a CD or pen drive and the lyrics attached. For youngsters interested in the Creative Writing category which covers drama, poetry and fiction the entries should be based on the theme for the festival – “Our Culture, Our Development” and should not be more than 800 words. For those submitting poems, it should be one page or twenty minutes for t