When the Auditor General's (AG) statutory report on the spend by Ministries, Municipalities and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in 2016 is officially presented to Ghana's Parliament in February, 2018, it will come with the usual litany of unapproved payments, contracts backdated to cover work shoddily done, late and overpriced, good...
The actions of these politicians and religious men tend to misdirect focus and mischannel the positive energies of productive youth from productive undertakings which have the potential to uplift the development of society. In effect, the opium of politics and religion administered to the youth of our fatherland is...
This year’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting comes at a time of good news for the world economy. As we said in this month’s Global Economic Prospects report, for the first time since the financial crisis, the World Bank is forecasting that the global economy will be operating at...
Time-Horizonld age with excellent financial independence is the ultimate goal of retirement planning. Whether you are in your twenties or the parent of a young adult, the process of ensuring that you have sufficient funds to maintain a desired standard of living through your ‘golden years’ is worth considering....
January 7th 2018 was exactly 25 years since the coming into force of the 4th Republican Constitution. This landmark event in Ghana’s democratic development took place on 7th January 1993. The Constitution became operative after a referendum in 1992, in which Ghanaians voted to end military rule. Personally, 1992...
“The Bank of Ghana (BoG) is fine-tuning a whistleblowing policy that will encourage the general public to pass on confidential information on malpractices in banks for thorough investigations to be undertaken and appropriate sanctions applied. The policy, which will be the first of its kind by the central bank,...
Being customer focused nowadays is necessity to conduct business not only just in Ghana but everywhere in the world. “True competitive advantage will only be established through excellence in customer value and the ensuing relentless care and attention provided” (Zaria).
One of the areas relating to the ‘attention provided’ is...