The biggest institution of any states is government. “A government is an institution entrusted with making and enforcing the rules of a society, as well as with regulating relations with other societies.”
I have deliberately included the above definitions because many people do not consider governments as institutions; but I...
Winning in the digital economy:
Africa, economically united, means more than a combined gross domestic product of over US$600 billion. The real benefits are in the amalgam of competitive advantages, the opening of new markets and generally the boost to Africa’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. Indeed, the prospects already seem to be...
With the COVID-19 pandemic reinforcing concerns about economic inequality, left-behind communities, discrimination, and climate change, there is increasing pressure on corporations to do more than sell a good widget at an affordable price. Responding to the changing public mood, the US Business Roundtable declared last year that, “Each of...
The National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) as part of its mandate to support private businesses to recover from the effects of COVID-19 is organizing an Entrepreneurship, Business Management and Financial Literacy training for Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (MSMEs) that received financial support under the Coronavirus...
Truehive, a technology platform that allows professional freelancers to post their services, plans to revolutionise the human resources sector by creating more tech jobs.
The platform - www.truehive.com.gh - was launched in April 2020 by Ghana-based tech guru Emmanuel Mawuena alongside Canada-based African entertainment executive Kofi Asare, as a tool...
Powered by Ericsson IoT Accelerator, Telenor Connexion will provide global connectivity to Wayout's sustainable micro-factories starting in East Africa and expanding into the Middle East, Asia Pacific and other markets in 2021.
Wayout has engineered plug-and-play micro-factories for local production of clean, filtered water, with a minimal eco footprint. Powered...
According to Seth Terkper, the Government keeps repeating that its predecessor left a weak economy at end-2016. In trumpeting this view, it deliberately ignores the legacy of opportunities created, despite major challenges.
Rather, its distortion of 2016 data and poor performance from 2017-to-date is exposing a worse legacy at end-2020.
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What if Ghana’s president, God forbid, tested positive for coronavirus? What if he left the hospital infected and contagious, got into a car, putting others’ lives at risk, drove up and down a street, to then return to hospital? What if our president emerged on a balcony, dramatically ripping...
Newmont Ghana has partnered the government through the Asutifi District Assembly in the Ahafo Region to upgrade the Kenyasi Health Centre to the level of a District Hospital.
Newmont invested about US$350,000 (approximately GH¢2 million) in the construction of a 4-unit 2-bedroom doctors’ accommodation and 28-bed capacity paediatric ward to...
MTN Ghana Foundation has inaugurated a three-unit classroom block for New Mangoase Roman Catholic Basic School in the Eastern region.
The project which comes at a cost of GHc394,379.27 will benefit over 420 pupils from new Mangoase and its surrounding communities. The facility includes a headteacher’s office, a staff common...