Term limits. That’s a phrase alien to fifteen out of 54 African heads of state each of whom has held power for more than 20 years. The issue is back on our radar after Gabon’s end of term limits this year effectively allowed President Ali Bongo Ondimba to rule...
Dinosaurs are extinct for a reason. They didn’t get the memo. It is a measure of how often we don’t actually read the small print, that the quietly potent announcement issued by the Millennium Development Authority was duly reported and allowed to sink, without a ripple or comment. Until...
Anyone who recognises free speech should understand that it’s not a sole preserve of the ‘oppressed’. It is a holistic concept. It is one that brings balance to a story. It facilitates fairness when both sides of an issue are presented to an audience for them to make inferences. In...
“For bitcoin to gain global acceptance and be used as a competitor money to dollar, euro and pound, it must be accepted everywhere, it must be very stable and credible,” Former of Head Global Markets, Stanbic Bank Ghana, Inusah Musah has said. Inusah Musah made this disclosure at the second...
Moesha Boduong. One Ghanaian woman. One minute four second interview on CNN. One international award winning journalist, Christiane Amanpour. One outraged and disgusted nation. The woman condemned. The journalist lambasted. Moesha contributed to a series called ‘Sex and Love: Around the World’. The series features the nations of Ghana, India, Germany...
Ever since Edward.L. Thorndike profess the idea of social intelligence in the 1920s which sciences equated it into emotional Intelligence, it has become a force to reckon with. It is a proven fact that unlike in the past where IQ was the only measure of intelligence and success, studies...
The Sales and Marketing Function Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don’t waste your pain. Use it to help others….Rick Warren Sober reflections These days, no week passes by without mention of negative issues in our financial institutions, businesses, government departments...
There is talk of a potential source of Ghc 9 billion from institutional investors including private pension funds that could bridge the gap of the national budget.  Required if African countries like Ghana seek to fund the critical infrastructure projects they need.  The headline ambition around these parts,  is...
Crowd funding is an innovation in entrepreneurial finance that can fuel risk globally. This new form of capital formation emerged in an organized way in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis largely because of the difficulties faced by entrepreneurs and early-stage enterprises in raising funds. With traditional banks less...
In the investment industry, it is seen that investors have the tendency of accumulating investments at the top and selling at the bottom. Many Ghanaian investors buy high when everybody is making so much noise about how good a security is and rather sell when there is a downturn...