“I was sold”. Chilling words from a Ghanaian migrant, back on home soil after a treacherous journey in dangerous waters, where his body became property.
I stared stunned at a news report during which African men – men who looked like my brother – were sold. Millions were traumatized as...
There is nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team. – Jason Fried
Dear Readers, I wish to crave your indulgence to repeat this article which was first published in December, 2015….
PREPARING FOR THE CLOSING BELL
For financial institutions, December is a period for re-strategizing...
Affirmative Action. Women’s Empowerment. These are two cornerstones of nation building in 21st Century Ghana. Indeed, globally. And yet, we are a nation that continues to debate the merit or danger of the former and offers rhetoric about the latter.
We are at a crossroads. We need to move forward.
The...
The Kenyan Commercial Bank robbery
“NAIROBI (Reuters) - In a heist reminiscent of a Hollywood movie, Kenyan robbers spent months tunneling into the bowels of a bank located opposite a police station and stole the equivalent of half a million dollars, police said on Tuesday.
Police said they had arrested...
If you must go to China, for the first time, as I did, then joining the First Lady, Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo, on her first trip to the country, accompanied by the first virtually all female business delegation, from micro to medium to multinational companies - representing swathes of the...
“It is not the absence of risk that determines a program’s success but the manner in which risk is identified and managed”
Dear readers, last week, I looked at the need to get the image of the risk personnel rebranded. At many training sessions, I witness the usual banter between...
When Pablo Escobar held sway in Colombia as the eminence grise of the cocaine trade, he would apparently offer anyone who stood in his way. 'Silver or lead - take a bribe or take a bullet'. A compelling business proposition, to anyone, then or now, presented with these hypnotic...
There has been a series of attacks on web based applications in Ghana in recent times. In the past three years, Ghanaian organizations and agencies, most especially government agencies have experienced severe cyber-attacks.
Most organizations in the country operate their web based applications without protecting the HTML codes. HTML (Hypertext...