21st September is Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day, Osagyefo’s day of birth, and a public holiday. I take this opportunity to trail the great man within the pages of my new book, The Pen at Risk.
Green bonds are a type of debt instrument issued by governments, organizations, or corporations to raise funds specifically for projects with environmental benefits. These projects aim to address climate change, promote sustainability, and contribute to the transition to a low-carbon economy.
Ghana has not done as well as it should have done since President Kwame Nkrumah was unconstitutionally ousted from office through a military coup by the National Liberation Council on February 24, 1966.
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations are concepts that have sought to define how corporate entities should respond to the emerging needs of society and humanity.
When I heard the news in the early hours of Monday, 21 August 2023 titled, “Ghana’s Paa Kwesi Asare wins 2023 BBC News Komla-Dumor-Award,” borrowing from Martin-Luther-King’s “free at last, free at last, thank God we are free at last,” I heard myself say,“Home at last, home at last, thank God it is home at last!”
A series of violent change of governments in recent times in French-speaking West and Central Africa by military men is raising the spectre of a return to the hoary days of dystopia and tyranny rampant in the continent between the 1960s and the end of the Cold War.
In less than a decade, the global financial sector has witnessed a remarkable transformation accelerated by emerging technological advances, ushering in a new era of financial service offerings than previously offered.
Health financing is a challenge any country has to deal with to provide good healthcare services. It’s especially important for developing countries such as Ghana, where ability to pay is a hindrance to accessing all the healthcare services that people might need.
Financial technology (Fintech) innovations are becoming the mainstay of the global financial sector and user responses to these innovations have been remarkably positive and embraced at an unprecedented scale.
Niger has become the latest country in West Africa where the army has seized control, following Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, and Chad - all former French colonies.
The Public Financial Management Act (2016) requires every finance minister to present a fiscal review (of the budget and the economy) to Parliament every July.
On July 25, Ghana’s parliament took a significant step by voting to abolish the death penalty. This move makes Ghana the 29th African country and the 124th country worldwide to put an end to capital punishment. Despite not carrying out any executions since 1993, there were 176 individuals still on death row as of the previous year, as reported by the Ghana Prisons Service.
Billionaire Elon Musk's decision to rebrand Twitter as X could be complicated legally: companies including Meta (META.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) already have intellectual property rights to the same letter.
Graceful but affectionate, eminent but humble, noble but enchanting, Samira Bawumia has conducted herself with decency and finesse as a modern-day political spouse.
“Duncan. There is no art To find the mind’s construction in the face. He was a gentleman on whom I built An absolute trust.” – William Shakespeare in ‘Macbeth’
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a revolutionary technology that is transforming various aspects of our lives. Its potential for disruption is particularly notable in the economic landscape.
A little after midnight on 6 September, 2022, Musah Mustafa emerged from his thatched-roof hut to relieve himself and saw four cars speeding towards his tiny village.
Patriotism has left the blood streams of Ghanaians. Everyday on social media, at least five people on my feed type the words ‘I for lef Ghana’ (pidgin for I have to leave Ghana), simply because they don’t see a promising future here. There is very little to believe in, to hope for, to be proud of.
I have been mulling of late over contemporary issues that would have drawn the fury of parents in those days. Discussing sanitary pads in the public domain?
Having started it, I must continue my BBC Focus on Africa story. One of the most interesting phenomena I met at the BBC was the “Duty Trip”. Up until I got to the BBC, I knew, as a journalist, about being sent on a reporting trip, be it inside or outside the country, when a sudden news event had broken out or to a planned event like a conference or election.
Financial fraud has emerged as a pervasive and pressing issue on a global scale, impacting economies and undermining the integrity of financial systems.
