Back in February, things did not look too promising for Peter Mutharika, Malawi’s 79-year-old president. The country’s constitutional court had just annulled the May 2019 vote that declared him the winner by a narrow margin, citing widespread “irregularities”. The ruling followed weeks of street protests calling for Mutharika to step aside and concede defeat. On […] The post How

“This too shall pass.” That is the rallying cry of a people drained by the burden of dealing with microscopic existents – living organisms so small yet, as it now appears, big enough to arrest the businesses of Wall Street in New York and Zongo Lane in Accra. But hope is embroidered in the human […] The post Nii Hornsby writes: The

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a former banker at Goldman Sachs Group Inc, for “orchestrating a bribery scheme” and arranging at least $2.5 million in bribes to be paid to Ghana government officials and also bribing Members of Parliament. The payment was allegedly made to gain approval for a client’s power plant […] The post Ex-banker

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a former banker at Goldman Sachs Group Inc, for “orchestrating a bribery scheme” and arranging at least $2.5 million in bribes to be paid to Ghana government officials and Members of Parliament. The payment was allegedly made to gain approval for a client’s power plant project from […] The post Former

The Coalition of Aggrieved Fund Management Customers (CAFMC) has petitioned President Nana Akufo-Addo to as a matter of urgency include them as beneficiaries of the government’s stimulus package following the lockdown brought on by the Coronavirus pandemic. These customers who have since the collapse of some 53 fund management companies demanded the release now say, […] The post Extend

Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia says Ghana is ahead of the USA, the UK and most African countries with regards to enhanced tracing and testing of suspected persons with COVID-19. “In the context of contact tracing, we are trying to identify all the people who have been in contact with a positive person so we […] The post Ghana ahead of US, UK in