Title: The Real Estate Market in Ghana – An Emerging Market in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Dr. Wilfred K. Anim-Odame, FGhIS, MRICS
Reviewer: Dr. Maxwell Opoku-Afari, First Deputy Governor, Bank of Ghana
The Global Financial Crisis of 2007-8 was the result of inadequate regulation of both the real estate and financial markets. In...
The Directorate of Research Innovations and Development (DRID) at the University of Media Arts and Communication (UniMAC) organized its maiden university-wide “How to Get Published” webinar series on Friday, December 8, 2023. The first seminar in the series focused on identifying credible journals for publication. Titled "Identifying Credible Outlets...
Over 500 children, the majority being girls, have received bicycles for commuting to and from school to enhance their academic work in the Northern Region.
The initiative, introduced by the Christian Children’s Fund of Canada (CCFC), is to reduce the frustration that schoolchildren go through in rural areas as well...
Dr. Aaron Issa Anafure, Managing Director-Quality Life Assurance Company (QLAC), has authored a comprehensive book in life insurance titled ‘Practice of Life Assurance in Perspective’.
It was launched at the auditorium of the National Insurance Commission. The launch was attended by the crème de la crème of political big-wigs,...
One of the key areas of ActionAid’s work is to advocate for increased civic participation and state accountability for the redistribution of resources, and the delivery of quality, gender-responsive public services, including access to quality basic education.
ActionAid Ghana’s advocacy on access to quality girl-friendly public basic education has received...
Civil society organisations (CSOs) and policy think tanks in the education space have raised serious concerns about the poor state of infrastructure at the basic education level.
They indicated that district assemblies have failed woefully in achieving one of their core mandates – provide educational infrastructure at the basic level.
According...
… as groundwork is laid for aggressive standardisation drive
The number of inspections at pre-tertiary schools in the country saw a 1,488% rise in the academic year preceding the advent of COVID-19, Inspector-General of the National Schools Inspectorate Authority (NaSIA), Dr. Haggar Hilda Ampadu has revealed.
Whilst the number represents 33%...
Many Ghanaian students who have successfully completed their studies at various universities in China prefer to stay and work in the East Asian country rather than return home and contribute their quota to economic development of their home country.
These students - whose education in the world’s second-largest economy were...
Ghana’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, has strongly defended the existence and contributions of the United Nations, saying the world would have been poorer without the global body.
According to her, many of the problems of the world would have worsened but for the very existence and the...
Parliament has approved a total of GH¢924m GETFund allocation for the 2018 fiscal year, with the largest tranche of GH¢328million or over 35 percent earmarked for projects and programmes at tertiary institutions.
According to the report of parliament’s Committee of the Whole, secondary and basic schools were allocated GH¢256m and...