Happy New Year dear readers, I wish you all the best of the year. May our aspirations materialise as we apply our best efforts to noble causes with God’s help. The beginning of a new year always brings in its wake apprehensions about what the future holds, and...
As you may know, the crypto-ecosystem is steadily evolving - and unlike traditional investment options, the use forms of cryptocurrencies go beyond buying, holding and selling. With crypto, the possibilities are nearly endless - with users being able to facilitate payments like never before, use as a form of...
What comes to your mind when you think about the financial performance of a business? Is it the profit/loss given at the last line of an income statement? Although that's one of the strong measures to analyze the financial performance of the business, it does not offer a comprehensive...
The global pandemic has had the unintended consequence of speeding up Africa’s digital economy. The transition to digital services and the adoption of transformative mobile technologies have been rapid in the last two years with e-commerce being the biggest beneficiary. This digital transformation has been driven by home grown solutions...
I have a great obsession for quality leadership and shaping leaders’ perception about the right way of leading their subordinates or followers to a decisive end. Having studied people’s core values, belief systems, lifestyles, opinions, attitudes, strengths and weaknesses of organizations and nations for over two decades, I have...
At the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) last November, world leaders pledged billions of dollars to sustainable farming and agricultural research. This commitment comes at a critical time. Already, climate change is wrecking harvests around the world and global hunger is on the rise. The stakes are especially high...
More than 20,000 Africans were killed in violent conflicts in 2020, an almost tenfold increase from a decade ago. Concurrently, and perhaps not coincidentally, Sino-American rivalry has escalated sharply. A new cold war, this time between the United States and China, along with other regional security threats, could be...
I remember it like yesterday when 2020 came to an end. It had been one of the most unprecedented years in history, especially due to the raging COVID-19 pandemic. 2021 was predicted to be a better year – a year in which the world will gradually glide towards the...
I wrote this piece nearly a year ago, when the COVID-19 crises had literally brought the world to its knees. The looming threat of a resurgence requires that we draw lessons from the earlier threat and effects of the pandemic to help us maintain focus.  The crisis drove many...
When government-issued Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) licences to Ghanaian companies in 2012, they were directed to use existing co-location towers rather than mounting their own. But now some of them are regretting following that directive, because the cost of towers under the co-location arrangement is practically suffocating them. Meanwhile, the...