Maya Angelou once said, “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Two weeks ago, I shared a few practical tips on how banks can use relationship banking to protect their customers’ funds. Last week, I...
Telecoms and internet giants unveiled on Thursday a mammoth project to lay a subsea cable around Africa to boost internet access to the underserved continent. The consortium, which includes China Mobile International, Facebook, Orange and Vodafone, said a cable 37,000 kilometres (23,000 miles) long will make landfall in 16 countries...
COVID-19 pandemic has affected price stability in Ghana’s economy. Consumer Price Index (CPI) entered double digit for the first time since the CPI was rebased in August 2019. In April 2020, Ghana recorded a year-on-year inflation rate of 10.6percent from 7.8 percent in the previous month. The 3.2 percent...
IEA says mobility picking up, Chinese demand rose S. to contribute biggest single output reduction by end-2020 IEA deems Gulf Arab cuts insufficient to balance market Oil demand is still set for a record fall in 2020, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said last week Thursday, but it trimmed...
Ghana’s lockdown saw hundreds of senior high school pupils and university students at home in the president’s quest to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in the country. While the action taken by t government was in the right direction, it was also important for these youths to have certain...
COVID-19 is a ticking time-bomb in Africa. Some of the risks are widely documented. Health-care systems are weak and overburdened, with ten African countries reportedly having no ventilators at all. Food supplies are unstable, and have already suffered major disruptions. And over 18 million people are refugees or internally...
An old student of Kumasi Anglican Senior High School in the Kumasi Metropolis, Kwame Opoku Sarkodie who completed in 1983 and is based in the United States, has donated ten brand-new laptops to the school’s ICT centre. Last year, Mr. Opoku Sarkodie donated a brand new laptop to the overall...
Today, every leader is faced with the same challenge. The COVID-19 crisis has brought out the best in us, as many have defied the odds to support one another in inspiring ways. Unfortunately, the crisis has also exposed some significant gaps in our societies, business models and our ability to...
The Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) has targetted earning more than US$10billion in revenue from non-traditional exports by end of 2028, under its National Export Development Strategy programme. The country’s Non-Traditional Exports (NTEs) sector has grown from US$2million annually in the early 1980s to US$2.8billion in 2018. However, with the...
Government last week directed the exclusion of some imports from its reduction in benchmark values by a range of 30 percent to 50 percent, which has been implemented with effect from April 4, 2019. This has not gone down too well with certain trade groups. GUTA’s Welfare Officer, Benjamin Yeboah,...