Teachers. Every day thousands and thousands of teachers in Ghana walk into classrooms where they hold young minds in their hands to nurture, develop and build. Some teachers in Ghana have turned playgrounds into pedophile hunting grounds, They use their position, authority, power to sexually harass, extort sex for...
On Monday, February 19, 2018 when this column will be published, the Petroleum Commission (PC), regulator of the upstream industry and Ghana's lucrative petroleum resources will host a meeting in Accra themed 'Local Content Procurement Conference.'
There are more than 500 companies including joint ventures registered with the PC, along...
Domelevo, Amidu and Despite. Three strong men navigating weak institutions. The first is an Auditor General seeking prosecutorial power to reinvigorate the state purse; the second is a Special Prosecutor with a reputation for integrity; and the third is a gender award winning businessman putting some of his fortune...
A few years ago, President John A. Kufour said of Ghanaian employees “they pretend to work and we pretend to pay them”. This statement by the leader of the nation clearly reflected his exasperation as his administration failed to find a solution to the abysmally low productivity of the...
The Doing Business (DB) survey is an annual report issued by the World Bank Group (WBG). It ranks economies across the world on the time, ease and procedures required for a small to middle size domestic business, in the most populous city, to complete critical transactions.
The first DB survey...
“It takes a special kind of con-artist to get rich by selling people an invisible product for 10% of their income that they can’t see until after they die” - Source unknown.
The issue about tithing is a controversial topic. Most leaders and heads of churches believe that a practicing...
Amid the Covid-19 pandemic and the restrictions imposed on public gathering it is evident that the Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) of companies cannot be held in a physical space. An AGM in Ghana, unlike in some jurisdictions, is mandatory every year and so cannot be postponed. The options available...
Volunteer travel, volunteer vacations or voluntourism is travel which includes volunteering for a charitable cause. (Wikipedia). Tourism in which travelers do voluntary work to help communities or the environment in the places they are visiting (Dictionary.com). “Voluntourism” is the intersection of international volunteering and tourism, also called variously “volunteer...