Headline news.  Ghana's big push to attract investment from Asia - Japan, Singapore and China - is well underway. At a breakfast meeting held in Accra on Friday, December 15th, 2017, the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, announced that "we are today examining the possibilities of arranging for a total...
He For She. Two million Ghanaian boys and men mobilized to pledge support in the fight for gender equality. That’s this campaign’s aim. It was launched on the 2nd day of a High Level Africa Roundtable on Mobilizing Support and Accelerating Implementation of the SDGs. It comes in the week...
Recent articles on Ghanaian public debt have raised concerns on whether the Government’s current economic policy is sustainable. The finance minister Mr Ken Ofori-Atta has been accused of living in economic ‘fantasy land’. Setting macro-economic issues aside, there were also media reports that the energy bond issue was badly...
When we look at our everyday lives - from childhood to adulthood - we all seem to have asked one question in situations where we do not understand something. And that question is simply: WHY? We all ask ‘why’ because we seek to understand. WHY has become a most...
Before 2017 ends, don't let the negative appraisal or negative opinion of your supervisor or superior or manager or boss or employer of your competence or skills define your sense of self-worth. Let it not cause you to doubt the dreams you have, or dilute the aspirations you have...
                          ...the Causes of Errors and Financial Losses It is said that silence is golden…is it, always? Of course not. Have you ever regretted not asking for explanations to instructions given you at work? For Christians, even though we should have absolute and child-like faith in God and trust Him,...
At a breakfast table in the noisy restaurant of a hotel in Shenzhen, I met Kwame Song Dongshong, now President of the Powerchina International Group Limited. The company that built the iconic Three Gorges in China, is a behemoth by its own description in 'planning, survey, design, engineering, through...
“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...
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...
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...