The 2019 Banking Industry Fraud Report and a front-page banner publication in Business & Financial Times (B&FT) on Monday, August 17, 2020 titled “BoG orders police vetting of bank staff to curtail fraud” has precipitated a research into the issue and the publication of this article.
The Business & Financial...
Even as the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has been pushing hard to digitise the economy, the digital divide in Africa, coupled with the fact that many people are excluded from online access through poverty and lack of coverage, makes it quite a daunting task.
Researchers have found that closing...
The role of stakeholders in the agric sector is crucial to its development. Ecobank Ghana understands this and has made a commitment in this regard.
The 10th edition of the annual Pre-Harvest Conference and Exhibitions Billed for the Northern Regional Capital, Tamale will provide Ecobank Ghana with an opportunity to...
As Ivory Coast prepares to collect a record cocoa crop, the market is bracing for two key unknowns: the risk of political unrest disrupting supplies and the demand hit from COVID-19.
Bigger crops in West Africa would add to a global surplus at a time when consumption is under pressure...
The role of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the edifice of the Ghanaian financial sub-sector; and their contribution to socio-economic development and growth of the country cannot be overemphasised. In recent years, the Ghanaian economy has witnessed the formal establishment of several microfinance institutions. Connoisseurs of activities in the financial...
In the last 45 years, suicide has increased by 60% worldwide. The interpersonal theory of suicide explains that there needs to be the desire and ability to kill oneself for suicidal behavior to occur. Joiner further explains that social disconnection or alienation and perception of being a burden to...
The partnership between the United Kingdom and Ghana has secured funding and expertise to build new major road system creating jobs and building expertise across Ghana.
The £80.3m project, between BHM and Ministry of Roads and Highways, would see the building of a major road between Tema and Aflao which...
The tireless effort of Business and Financial Times correspondent Edward Adjei Frimpong in promoting the growth and development of the tourism industry, through his write-ups has been acknowledged by the industry regulator, Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA).
The GTA has crowned him as the 2019 Best Tourism Journalist in Bono,...
The Organization of African Unity, now African Union (AU), under Kwame Nkrumah’s leadership conceived an African Common Market programme. Nkrumah envisioned it to be an economic community of African countries pulling their production and trade to a common advantage.
That, to Nkrumah, was the epitome of true independence. The idea...
President of the National House of Chiefs and Co-founder of Sunon Asogli Power Ghana Limited, Togbe Afede XIV, has led a four-member delegation from Sunon Asogli Power and African World Airlines (AWA) to explore opportunities in the power sector of Cameroon.
The Sunon Asogli power plant was the first privately-owned...