The ferocity of the 2020 presidential election in the United States is not about Donald Trump per se, but about what he represents: the racist structures of power that have persisted in America for centuries, though sometimes in mutated form. The long history of America’s state-sponsored racism will draw...
Zeepay, a fast-growing fintech and a Challenger Electronic Money issuer (Mobile Money Company), has announced a new partnership with Enterprise Life to provide Beneficiary Insurance to remittance senders from the diaspora known as Zeemicro.
People in the diaspora can now purchase insurance cover for their beneficiaries when sending money home...
Following the collapse of Ghana Airways and Ghana International Airlines (GIA), Ghanaians have long sought for a national carrier that will restore our national pride and fly our national flag around the world.
Thus it was with much joy that I received the news in 2019 that Ghana had signed...
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta has requested for the withdrawal of the sum of GHc27,434,180,520.00 from the Consolidated Fund to enable government meet expenditure in the first quarter of the year 2021.
This, the Minister said in his address to Parliament, is in accordance with Article 180 of the 1993...
Ghanaian workers have reported shocking human rights abuses aboard Chinese-owned trawl vessels - from beatings to a lack of drinkable water or basic medicines, and punishing working hours.
This abuse of the crew goes hand-in-hand with threats, bribery of fisheries observers, and large-scale illegal fishing.
The testimonies, documented in a new...
The Voices against Tribalism (VaT), a social development, research and advocacy based Non-Governmental Organisation has urged all presidential aspirants to be decorous in their utterances when campaigning.
The group, in statement reminded the aspirants to first seek the unity of the country by avoiding acts that are divisive.
The chairman of...
Motivation is unobservable directly. As noted by Kwon (2016), “motivation resides within an individual and it enables them to act in a particular manner to achieve specific goals and objectives”. For instance, acquiring money is owing to extrinsic motivation but the main reason behind the acquisition of the money...
Standard Chartered Bank Ghana Limited has announced a 100% waiver on account to wallet transaction fees for its customers from October 26-30, 2020.
This comes on the back of Customer Service Week, which is commemorated globally from October 5-9, and the bank’s bid to dedicate the whole month of October...
Private sector actors in the oil palm value chain, when given the right knowledge and needed financial support, are able to influence policies that advance the development of the commodity in Ghana.
Over the few years, the oil palm sub-sector has grappled with the lack of a national standard for the...
Contrary to the impression that persons living in rural communities would be more inclined to use mobile money services due to their reliance on relations, acquaintances and friends in urban areas for remittances, a report - the ‘Household Survey on Information Communications Technology (ICT)’ - has revealed the contrary.
Due...