By 2050 more than one in four people on our planet will be African. Bold action is needed now to ensure that all of them have a fair chance of leading healthy, prosperous and fulfilling lives, urges the newest and final report from Kofi Annan’s Africa Progress Panel (APP)).
The...
Whew! Such a sweet relief from the year's strenuous routines for a luxury rest during the holidays. “But, do entrepreneurs go on holiday breaks?” Rather an unusual but amusing question a colleague recently put forward to me.
Indubitably, it's a tough business world out there, all jeers no cheers but...
This is the second in the series of the subject geotechnical engineering. In the previous series I mentioned five areas of its applications. Right! The areas of application continue. This series will discuss, among others, the development and use of geotechnical engineering in Ghana.
Dams, Embankment, dykes & levees...
The government of Ghana has since independence depended on the donor community to fund between 30-40% of its budget over the years. Various efforts have been made by previous governments to reverse the trend. The current government led by Nana Addo Dankwah Akuffo-Addo has announced its intention to wean...
The Omanhene of Asokore Asante in the Ashanti Region, Nana Dr. S.K.B. Asante, has charged government to begin consulting and involving chiefs in the issuance of licences to Artisanal and Small-Scale miners in particular.
According to the astute legal luminary, chiefs are the best way to provide legitimate advice and...
“The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.” Malcolm Gladwell
How time flies. Last October, 2017 marked my fourth year of writing articles for The Risk Watch column of the Business and Financial Times newspaper. I will call it a journey of mixed...
Headline news. Ghana's big push to attract investment from Asia - Japan, Singapore and China - is well underway.
At a breakfast meeting held in Accra on Friday, December 15th, 2017, the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, announced that "we are today examining the possibilities of arranging for a total...
Meridian Port Services (MPS) has taken delivery of the first unit out of two Mobile Harbour Cranes (MHC).
The Crane arrived on 8th December 2017 and it is currently being commissioned by the manufacturers’ engineers expected to be put into operations after completing the training in the coming two weeks....