While President Akufo-Addo and the Receiver of collapsed financial institutions, Eric Nana Nipa, have publicly claimed that they have almost completed paying depositors’ locked funds, Ezekiel Annor-Head of the Association of Affected Customers of Savings and Loans institutions, is disputing the claims. According to Mr. Annor, many of the affected...
How authentic is the content of tributes paid to the dead? This was a question a friend recently posed in a chatroom. I have no idea how the conversation started because I joined late, but the thread had been on hours before I joined. My first comment was a...
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...
Many are calling for a temporary moratorium on all debt repayments by developing and emerging economies, in order to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic from triggering a tsunami of sovereign defaults. Rather than waiting passively until debtors stop meeting their obligations, the argument goes, creditors would be better off agreeing...
Mining deals and transactions, particularly for multinational companies, and the transfer or revamp of mine assets between companies are required to be well-scrutinised and hard questions asked to give assurance for prolonged life of mine operations, the sustainability of jobs and sustenance of impacted communities, as well as the...
There are so many challenging issues that seem to engulf an individual, a society and a nation at large. Most times we seem to throw our hands in despair and think nothing can be done to change it because it looks so perennial and constant in our faces. Not too long...
About five (5) months ago, Ghana’s National Biosafety Authority (NBA) - an authority under the Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation - published a notice inviting public comments on whether it should approve the country’s first genetically modified crop, the Pod Borer Resistant (PBR) cowpea or beans. The gazette...
… as phase one of innovative pilot programme progresses To achieve economically and environmentally-effective e-waste management in the country, emphasis must be placed on livelihood sustenance, job creation and value addition across the entire value chain, Chief Director at the Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Cynthia A. Bediako...
…here's how to get your boss to listen Employees are frequently overworked and mostly underpaid in today's fast-paced, highly competitive industry. The pressure to meet deadlines, exceed goals and constantly innovate can be exhausting. It can have a substantial impact on employees' well-being and productivity when combined with long hours,...
The legal battle against climate change and perpetrators of carbon emissions seems to have finally caught up with the big players in the oil and gas industry. It is of course threatening the hydrocarbon industry, as big Oil receives blow after blow. For a long-time, big oil majors have been...