Sydney Casely-Hayford, sydney@bizghana.com It is 4:00 a.m. The lights just went out at McCarthy Hill and I am stumped. I deliberately caught an early night, trying to catch up on sleep and start an early day, Sunday. We had a little storm, a mild rainfall, and “dum”; shades of the bad old days when you [...]
By Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK It was most encouraging to read that KPMG, the multinational accounting firm that was requested or appointed by the Supreme Court as referee to audit the pink sheets in the ongoing presidential petition hearing has agreed to do the audit free of charge (see “KPMG to count pink sheets for [...]
By Jocelyne Sambira Africa’s continued growth has sparked the interest of investors from industrialized nations, resulting in fierce competition for its resources and markets. The aggressive economic expansion efforts by China and India, among others, come to mind. Japan, however, has been a subtle but effective partner of Africa for the past 50 years. Through [...]
Ebo Quansah in Accra I was wondering what the retirement of Alex Ferguson, Britain’s most successful football manager, would mean to African dictators, when the pleadings of long-term rulers on the continent captured in the cartoon, cleared the air. The concept underlying the cartoonist job is that while even successful heads of organisations know when [...]
By Joseph Ziem Once upon a time, there lived a young man in the United States of America [USA]. Born in Boston, Massachusetts in January 1706, he was a printing press apprentice who had only two years of formal education and dropped out due to his parent’s inability to pay his school fees. He literally [...]
By Alex Asabre, Chairman, GDM The University of Ghana, Legon, a couple of weeks of ago, honoured about sixteen Ghanaians for their various contributions towards the growth of the country, and the University in particular. One of the distinguished beneficiaries of the awards was former President John Agyekum Kufuor, who was Ghana’s second President under [...]
Paul Frimpong, University of Ghana Africa is touted as the continent of opportunities, where there are numerous resources available for economic growth and transformation. Resources of Africa span from minerals such as gold, diamond, bauxite, ore and currently the increasing discovery of oil in large quantities in countries across the continent; cocoa, soya, millet, [...]
Ebo Quansah in Accra A Methodist Priest made my day yesterday, when I arrived at the office in the mid-morning. Rt. Rev. Stephen R. Bosumtwe-Ayensu, Bishop of the Obuasi Diocese of the Methodist Church, is inviting all Ghanaians to ask President John Dramani Mahama to tell the people, who chopped the flesh that has left [...]
Prior to the implementation of the single spine, health workers were on a salary scale called Health Sector Salary scale (HSS). When doctors were migrated onto the single spine, the basic salary on the single spine was lower. Now the pension deduction is made solely on the basic salary and it is against international labour [...]
Sydney Casely-Hayford, sydney@bizghana.com I posted a very historical “Lest We Forget” piece on my Blog this week, written by a very good friend Kwasi Gyan Appenteng. Down memory lane to 1983, he strolls through time with palpitating nostalgia that hit hard and made me reminisce about times gone by, when revolution meant violence and student [...]