“When you see your neighbour’s beard on fire, fetch water for yours.” – Akan proverb
“Open your eyes and look within: Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?” These words of Bob Marley taken from his ‘Exodus’ song not only stirs self-reflection, but are actually a rousing call to...
Myositis Awareness Month got me thinking…and really, reflecting about a time, before my initial flare-up almost three years ago, when Myositis wasn’t at the forefront of my consciousness—a notion that seems so foreign to me now. I think back to the first time I heard the word “Dermatomyositis”, and...
In the past week, there have been different ongoing discussions on social media about the many negative things making our world a painful place to live in. There have been conversations about race, rape, tribalism, ethnocentrism, etc. People are looking to be seen, listened to and heard. People are...
Quite a number of road traffic accidents, sometimes mild or repulsively ugly, leave people every day with temporary or permanent disabilities alongside emotional pain and sometimes death. Debatably, road accidents are the new leading cause of death by injury - and the tenth-leading cause of all deaths globally.
And if...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to merge the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DfID) with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office is a deliberate slap in the face to developing countries. Worse, it comes just when African countries are crying out for international support to fight COVID-19 and...
What a beginning! A republic’s anniversary, an immigration service professing medical expertise while practicing discrimination and a media house DG declaring new courts of prosecution.
Happy New Year. Although January’s beginnings in the world of news in Ghana revealed we are off to a troubling start. The above stories signify...
Banks and other financial institutions have long been faced with the trends of online and mobile banking adoption. Up until now, there has been little that financial institutions could do to encourage specific groups of non-actors to change the way they bank in adoption of digital services. But that...
“Technological innovations will be the heart and blood of the banking industry for many years to come and if big banks do not make the most of it, the new players from FinTech and large technology companies will.”
-------David Brear, Global CEO of 11: FS
Banking is one of the world’s...
On local mining firms’ preparedness and community response to Covid-19
In what ways has the Covid-19 pandemic impacted mining activities inGhana?
ERIC ASUBONTENG: Because most mining companies in Ghana are part of global mining institutions, they have generally been somewhatahead of the curve in terms of planning. Global capacity and experience...