Government’s flagship agriculture programme Planting for food and Jobs is designed to transform the agricultural sector and make it a more productive to ensure food self-sufficiency, as well as providing raw material to increase agro-processing for better returns.
That’s all well and good, but a key sub-sector in agriculture is...
Vice-President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has announced that on May 1 - May Day, President Akufo-Addo will launch the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) initiative aimed at tackling graduate unemployment in the country.
The programme will operate seven modules designed to meet the nation’s pressing needs while providing jobs for the teeming...
Africa has the youngest population in the world and each year 10-12 million of its young people seek to enter the continent’s workforce…too many without success.
This highlights the great challenge of youth unemployment but can also be seen as an opportunity for them to become the engine driving new...
I woke up on Sunday, April 1, this year, to hear in the news that the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has introduced something called TIN, and that everybody living in the country would have to get one.
Later, I heard some journalists and programme hosts on radio and television who...
Without it, modern economies could not function
Money may make the world go around, as the song says. And most people in the world probably have handled money, many of them on a daily basis. But despite its familiarity, probably few people could tell you exactly what money is, or...
These days, charitable giving or corporate community investments (CCI) is a well-established strategy of corporate practice. In last week’s article, I focused on the link between CSR, a brand identity and their effects on corporate charity. I cited, Kasapreko Industries’ launching of the Awake Mineral Water brand to raise...
Title: “Untangling That Tongue – No More Fear of Public Speaking
Fearless, Fabulous and Flamboyant”.
On Saturday, 7th April, 2018, Mrs. Patricia Dzifa Mensah-Larkai launched two (2) books at the Airport View Hotel, Accra.
For those who may recall, she wrote an article on “Practice Makes Perfect” in our newspaper’s Toastmasters column....
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can be applied in many fields including crime fighting and prediction. In Ghana, the Ghana Police Service (GPS) has requested from citizens to assist the service in curbing the upsurge of crime in Ghana. Fighting crime in all forms is commendable but predicting the...
Be it private or public university, wage issues attract the interest of all employees at all levels. Wage determination among university employees is one of the thorniest and discussed issue among university employees and also the concern of universities regulatory authorities. In Ghana, while subject matter may be less...