Africa’s fastest growing streaming and television platform, Wi-flix and Ghana’s leading media conglomerate, Media General have announced a partnership that will see subscribers of Wi-flix enjoy exclusive content from Media General brands on Wi-flix. The partnership is part of Wi-flix’s bold content strategy to offer subscribers diverse content and exciting...
Africa is not poor, yet Africa has piqued the interests of economists for the last half century and there is a good number of academic literature on why Africa is poor. This is because for the resources available to Africa, both natural and human capital potential, the continent has...
It starts with a ‘sound premise’. And then the price action takes over. On May 26, 2010, Warren Buffett was interviewed by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC). In transcripts released in 2016, we see that the FCIC asked Buffett several questions regarding what he thought caused the housing and...
When the billionaire investor Ray Dalio recently predicted that the Chinese renminbi will become a global reserve currency, the world took notice. It’s a prediction that the Chinese government has encouraged through its own efforts. The question now is whether the coming “Year of the Ox” will bring the...
Global uncertainty reached unprecedented levels at the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak and remains elevated. The World Uncertainty Index—a quarterly measure of global economic and policy uncertainty covering 143 countries—shows that although uncertainty has come down by about 60 percent from the peak observed at the onset of the COVID-19...
Africa is not poor, yet Africa has piqued the interests of economists for the last half century and there is a good number of academic literature on why Africa is poor. This is because for the resources available to Africa, both natural and human capital potential, the continent has...
Scores of Vodafone customers have commended the telco’s annual Akwantuo Aye Free initiative, which pays the transport fares of customers travelling from Accra to other parts of the country during the Christmas season. According to them, the telecom giant’s generous move provided an opportunity for them to travel and spend...
It wasn’t US President Donald Trump’s intention, but he did his successor Joe Biden a potentially historic favor through his incitement of the violent insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, for which the House impeached him for an unprecedented second time this week. No right-minded individual would wish...
“A road cannot tell you that there is a misfortune ahead.” – Batswana proverb Nobody is ever going to tell you that their inability to accept you for who you are is their own challenge. They are always going to make it look and sound like it is your fault...
The application of public private partnership (PPP) in infrastructural development have been adopted in the water sector, aviation, road sector, energy sector and telecommunication sector in Ghana. Thus, the involvement of the private actors with various government agencies in the delivery and infrastructural development is not a new phenomenon in...