Africa, a market of more than 1 billion people banks a collective Gross Domestic Product of $3.4 trillion a year.  By doing business with anyone other than itself. In 2016, the World Bank listed the top 5 products exported from Africa as gold  in semi manufactured form ($9 billion); non...
Teachers. Every day thousands and thousands of teachers in Ghana walk into classrooms where they hold young minds in their hands to nurture, develop and build. Some teachers in Ghana have turned playgrounds into pedophile hunting grounds, They use their position, authority, power to sexually harass, extort sex for...
“Too many security officers live day to day. They just want to be treated with dignity” ---John Wilson Dear Readers, please read this post carefully. It went viral on social media recently, but after reading it, I started feeling guilty about some of the issues involved because most of us...
On Monday, February 19, 2018 when this column will be published, the Petroleum Commission (PC), regulator of the upstream industry and Ghana's lucrative petroleum resources will host a meeting in Accra themed 'Local Content Procurement Conference.' There are more than 500 companies including joint ventures registered with the PC, along...
Domelevo, Amidu and Despite. Three strong men navigating weak institutions. The first is an Auditor General seeking prosecutorial power to reinvigorate the state purse; the second is a Special Prosecutor with a reputation for integrity; and the third is a gender award winning businessman putting some of his fortune...
The Doing Business (DB) survey is an annual report issued by the World Bank Group (WBG).  It ranks economies across the world on the time, ease and procedures required for a small to middle size domestic business, in the most populous city, to complete critical transactions. The first DB survey...
Dear Readers, do you look forward to another week at work? If yes, great, but if no, why not? You must be either tired from too much work overload at home, Church, and social events? Or worse still, the job is “getting into you”. Is the job stressing you...
The inspiration for the present article came from a long public chit-chat discussion on LinkedIn; but it seems that the question as to whether you should hire someone with lots of experience or lots of education is a very old one. Can experience really make up for the lack of...
Never mind what the hard skills of the apparent qualifications are.  The real requirement for the successful applicant who bags the advertised role for Government Statistician, will be his/the ability to count, backwards. Depending on who is guesstimating, Ghana has a population of 28 million people, give or take.  English...
Technology is an essential part of our lives today and only few people can imagine living without it. In the era of rapidly changing technology nearly every business has been affected in various ways. HR has always been the most crucial part of any business, as finding the right...