International Brent Crude plummeted momentarily on Tuesday, April 1, the lowest since 21 years ago but recovers a day after to hover around US$20 a barrel. As the novel Coronavirus lockdown grind down many facets of our lives i.e. a grounded airline industry, a drowning hospitality sector, a quandary...
There is one certainty in this uncertain time; no country will come out unscathed by the coronavirus pandemic. The virus has placed a mandatory injunction on human activities, virtually slumping a brake on the world economy. The two devastating prongs of covid-19 —first a toll on countries health systems,...
In a recent interview, I was asked to share my thoughts on the global pandemic that is transforming our lives and shaping a new future for so many people. Most of my responses concerned Ghana and the strong, decisive and admirable way the country has responded to the crisis. My...
The movie ‘Contagion’ should have given us a clue as to what was to come. Unfortunately, it was just another Hollywood movie for us—at least, a vast majority of us. And then, just before the presents and decorations of the New Year festivities had been stowed away, we were...
An essential determinant for any business success in today’s digital age is to have an e-business component: call up an e-Business consultant today to help set it up. I don’t think there is any doubt in our minds as to whether electronic enablement is needed for our businesses today....
The test of leadership comes in many forms. And as the world battles the current pandemic, many leadership skills and styles are being tested. Every move, every decision and every plan counts to either propel a nation, organization or community forward or backward. At the end of the day,...
 Africa is no stranger to epidemics and public-health crises. Ebola is estimated to have killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa in 2014-16, and more recently claimed over 2,000 lives in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Because of their fragile health systems, African countries were able...
Imagine a world in which a global network of medical professionals monitored for emerging strains of a contagious virus, periodically updated an established formula for vaccinating against it, and then made that information available to companies and countries around the world. Moreover, imagine if this work were done without...
- lessons from COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic that originated in Wuhan, China, and has spread across the world over  the past few months has affected, perhaps, every sphere of human existence. It has had diverse effects on the politics of nations, health, law, and on human and business relations....
“one of the diseases of this age is the multiplicity of books; they doth so overcharge the world that it is not able to digestthe abundance of idle matter that is every day hatched and brought forth into theworld,” Barnaby Rich. The above quote was made in 1613, a period...