With banking income growing by 11% per year on average and African fintech firms raising more than US$800 million in equity funding in 2019, Africa’s financial industry was one of the most dynamic in the world before the COVID-19 pandemic struck. However, the impact of the economic crisis promises to...
“A road cannot tell you that there is a misfortune ahead.” – Batswana proverb Nobody is ever going to tell you that their inability to accept you for who you are is their own challenge. They are always going to make it look and sound like it is your fault...
The application of public private partnership (PPP) in infrastructural development have been adopted in the water sector, aviation, road sector, energy sector and telecommunication sector in Ghana. Thus, the involvement of the private actors with various government agencies in the delivery and infrastructural development is not a new phenomenon in...
By: Four for Growth – Suzy, Dorothy Doreen & Doris Have you read Wheel of Life – Part 1? If you did, you may reminisce how a conversation between four ‘not-so-young-girls’ led to a roller-coaster experience of self-identity and emotional discoveries during a 2-day retreat. By the end of...
The Ghana Association of Savings and Loans Companies (GHASALC), for the first time in almost half a decade, is optimistic that its members will perform better this year as government continues to settle the debts owed by defunct investment firms which were under regulation of the Securities and Exchange...
The world faces a "catastrophic moral failure" because of unequal COVID vaccine policies, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said it was not fair for younger, healthy people in richer nations to get injections before vulnerable people in poorer states. He said over 39...
As many as 7.7 million people, representing 70 percent of the country’s over 11 million active labour force, are non-active pension contributors - a situation that many believe could erode efforts to end poverty, especially among the aged. The situation is even more dire in the informal sector, where coverage...
Collaboration between the management of West Hills Mall and the Police, with support from a prospective victim, derailed a well-knit employment scam - leading to the arrest of a man suspected to be a member of a syndicate of fraudsters that uses Accra’s major malls to extort money from...
Marketing and Communications Industry leader, Global Media Alliance, has launched its 5th edition of the annual Ghana Beverages Awards (GBA). The launch came off in Accra and also paved the way for opening nominations in a lead-up to the main event. Being organised under the theme ‘Inspiring Excellence in Ghana’s...
While Africa embarks on a journey to bring prosperity to its citizens and make the continent economically strong through the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement, one major challenge that may derail this goal and work to the advantage of foreigners is non-enforcement for rules of origin, as...