In my article dated December 26, 2017 titled “Are bank customers in Ghana well informed about cost of credit / Annual Percentage Rate? It is time to have an interactive cost of credit website and app on google play and app store” I noted as below as the second...
In January 2013, I flew from Kumasi to Accra with Fly 540 on a return journey that cost an average of $36 or (GHC 80.00) that time. Similarly, Starbow had an off peak fare on the same route for a little under GHC 40. The period of 2012 and 2014...
There’s no gainsaying that food, agriculture and agribusiness have a substantial economic, financial, social, and environmental pawmark. According to Mckinsey, the $5 trillion Agribusiness industry represents 10 percent of global consumer spending, and 40 percent of employment. The Word Bank gives the industry 10% of global GDP (barring any...
Amid the troubles currently afflicting Ghana’s banking industry, Ecobank - Ghana’s biggest bank - provides invaluable lessons on prudent financial management for its counterparts. TOMA IMIRHE examines how the bank’s financial performance for 2017 shows how banks in Ghana can maintain financial solidity, improve customer value proposition and keep...
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” …Nelson Mandela. As Ghanaians, we must make the education of the youth our ‘Core Value’ to develop the fundamental human capacity base of our country. The ‘Free SHS’ policy is laudable and acceptable, but its funding...
The coming into being of the 1992 Constitution, which prohibits the grant of freehold estate in stool lands, effectively ended the era where one could purchase such estates in Ghana. Even though the Constitution only prohibits transfer of freehold interest in stool lands, the owners of the other types...
Success is for the daring. It is only those who are ready to press on in life that can succeed in any endeavour. That is what has accounted for the success of a young poultry farmer in Tamale, capital of the Northern Region in Ghana. He started life as...
After securing the biggest collaboration in the history of Ghana music industry with Beyoncé, Ghanaian musician and African Dancehall King, Shatta Wale doesn’t seem to be giving up. A few weeks ago, Billboard released a list of artistes across eleven African countries whose content on YouTube gained a lot of...
I have no idea who you would love included in your ideal Black Stars squad, but what I know for a certain is that there are so many footballers of Ghanaian descent that if we had succeeded in poaching, might have helped us to achieve something. Over the years, the...
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...