Merriam-Webster defines ‘addiction’ as “a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behaviour, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence”. In moderation, anything can be argued as alright, depending...
Your company’s internal culture could very well make or break things. Though similar in many things and several ways, we are ultimately all of us equally very different beings. So that means that the individual ethos of everyone at a company should ideally be in harmony with everyone else....
International trade chiefly involves the activities related to the worldwide exchange of goods and services to satisfy consumer needs. The said activities include acquiring, managing, and developing financial, physical and human resources. International Retail has a broader scope. The Wiley Online Library breaks down International Retail as the following: “International retail...
In this great big world of digitisation seemingly on steroids, and innovations springing up faster than mushrooms overnight after a good soft rain, it is more than easy to be considered out of fashion and outside of the spectrum of useful and technological applications. Yet somehow, Unstructured Supplementary Service Data...
Countries may ban the exportation of certain commodities from time to time. It is not an altogether uncommon thing to do, and it may occur for several different reasons. The length of time a commodity may remain banned is entirely relative to the reason or reasons it was banned for,...
Governments around the world have indeed taken on more and more functions over time. As a result, they now guarantee the operation of many services once provided by the private sector. They also collect massive amounts of taxes and often demonstrate inefficiencies in their operations. However, it is essential to...
Political parties rely heavily on financial assistance to sustain their activities. This has led to a situation where financiers of a party can unduly influence the outcome of elections and the policies of political parties. The question we ponder over is whether the state should sponsor political parties or whether...
In my opinion, the benefits of blockchain are being paraded as akin to that of cryptocurrencies and while to a large extent that is accurate, from the few conversations I have had over the past weeks, there needs to be an urgent understanding of each of them, and both....
Africa is blessed with abundant solar power due to the scorching sun. Solar power should be the alternative energy source to power vehicles, generating plants, and small-scale and commercial farming. It could also be used for powering industries. For instance, during power outages, most heavy industries like Valco in Ghana...
It has been over a decade since the idea of having a common currency for the countries in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was first proposed. The idea was that such a currency would have the following advantages: the benefits of economies of scale, free movement...