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Navigating national development challenges – A call for innovative solutions
By Dela EVANS Governments around the world face the complicated task of navigating national development in a landscape full of complexities and uncertainties. In the pursuit of sustainable prosperity and national identity, a clear distinction is emerging between the aspirations of nation-building and national development planning strategies for national development. Nation building, with its ambitious […]
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Unlocking Africa’s potential through agrifood systems transformation and capacity building
Africa holds the key to moving towards a world free from hunger and poverty. It is in Africa where enormous gains can be made, and agrifood systems transformation is the definitive foundation for the continent to realise sustainable development and modernisation. This month, ministers of Agriculture from across Africa will meet in Morocco for the …
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Business
Could insurtech overtake traditional insurance?
…Are we ready? By Daniel Sarkodie DUAH Just a little more than five years ago, technology started to focus on changing the insurance industry. Even though insurance is super important for the world to grow and expand, it was slower to use new technology compared to other industries. This means that while other industries were […]
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Entrepreneuring the impending youth bulge
By Gordon ADOMDZA (Dr) The sub-Saharan African region is set to power the next phase of global population growth. According to Foresight Africa (2020), 8 out of 10 fastest-growing countries will be in the region by 2030. This situation will intensify the demand for meaningful work, with more qualified graduates competing for limited job opportunities. […]
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The needless politicisation of laptops
By Amos SAFO Last week, I was shocked to the core when the whole nation wasted what should have been valuable productive man-hours to discuss the merits and demerits of distributing laptops to students of Senior Secondary Schools. The unproductive use of the national frequences on both radio and television was equally disturbing because in […]
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AI’s dark side
By J. N. Halm Artificial Intelligence. AI. Who would have thought? Ever since the publication of the paper that postulated the idea that machines, particularly computer systems, could exhibit some form of intelligence, the idea has refused to go away. That paper titled “Computer Machinery and Intelligence” by English mathematician and computer scientist, Alan Mathison […]
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Dede Drives the Discourse: Episode 11: Quietly Finding Our Unique Value
The car hummed softly as we navigated the familiar streets of Accra, the engine’s rhythmic purr serving as a backdrop to the heavy silence that hung between us. My passenger, a young boy, and one of my favourite nephews, slouched in the back seat, stared out the window with a distant look in his eyes, […]
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Business
Personal Branding with Bernard Kelvin Clive: The designer and Uber driver experience
…The power of exceptional customer experience “Often times consumers, clients, and customers are not just buying a product or service, they are buying an experience, a feeling, a perception, a person (YOU)” – Bernard Kelvin Clive Agyemang responded in Pidgin English, “Now the system spoil o, every small business owner thinks say dem be bossu, […]
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Private solutions to public problems: How did we get here?
By Isaac FRIMPONG (Ph.D.) As Ghana grapples with economic and social challenges, a beacon of hope equally emerges through the resourcefulness of its people; both young and old. From the revolving door of political power to the economic reforms of the 1980s, devaluation of the cedi, financial sector clean-up, and the recent Domestic Debt Exchange […]
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Chitosan – promoted for weight loss, cholesterol and blood pressure?
By Prof. Raphael Nyarkotey OBU Chitosan is made from chitin, a fibrous compound found mainly on the hard outer skeletons of crustaceans and in the cell walls of some fungi. One study revealed that an enzymatic reaction produces chitosan — a more suitable form for supplements (Moraru et al. 2018). Another study by Hans Merzendorfer […]
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Revolutionising healthcare workforce development in Africa’s underserved regions
By Godson Kofi DAVIES In Africa, where the beauty of landscapes is as vast as its cultural diversity, a silent crisis brews in the realm of healthcare. The continent faces a dire shortage of healthcare professionals, a predicament most acute in the rural and underserved areas. According to the World Health Organization, sub-Saharan Africa bears […]
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The roll call of contemporary Financial Evangelists (Part 3)
By Nelson Semanu BOANDOH-KORKOR & Elizabeth BOANDOH-KORKOR “Money is not sinful or evil. The kingdom of God needs it desperately! Making money is what I do best but it must be made for God’s glory and not mine. As a Christian entrepreneur, my company relies on prayer and inward confirmation by the Holy Spirit before […]
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Poetry Corner: Let There Be Light
The lights are let out Electricity Comes and Goes It’s Either Candle or Generator It’s either torchlight or daylight It’s a grim message to dim our lights A sunny message of light Beautifully presented by mother nature So to dim a crisis of power And prices of power Power that came from energy Energy that […]
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Education
Professor Raymond Akongburo Atuguba – navigator of the University of Ghana School of Law
There is the Law of Navigation. Explained simply, it posits that every business should have a vision and navigate cautiously toward attaining it. For larger and significant organisations, it is extremely important to find pathways toward the vision. Consequently, good leaders are those who are also good navigators. John C. Maxwell, the American speaker and […]
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Agribusiness
K-Ricebelt project: Transferring expertise and technology to feed Africa
Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia, Senegal, Cameroon, Uganda, and Kenya are benefiting from a South Korean developmental initiative as a swift response to the danger over food security in Africa by helping these countries to increase rice production and reduce their reliance on imports. Known as the K-Ricebelt project, it is aimed at providing small farmers […]
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The day the sun refused to shine
When I was ten years old, we heard rumours in my school that on a day in the coming May (May 20, 1947) there would be “darkness” in the world in the daytime. What? Yes. It was even announced to the whole school by the headmaster, who happened to be our class teacher. We didn’t …
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Understanding and mitigating the risks of motorcycle riding
By Eddie POKU Growing up, any time I talk of getting a motorcycle, my lovely mum will quib “I will kill and bury you myself first” or blurt out “let me go buy your coffin first”. Sharing this with my biker friends started a conversation where everyone shared similar experience. Why is this so and […]
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Reflections on 2024 World Water Day Celebration
By Ama Kudom-Agyemang Obviously, the realisation of about three-quarters of the world’s population having access to safe water sources, is a major attainment by the international community. However, this achievement cannot be overly celebrated. This is because, as the world celebrated this year’s World Water Day (WWD) on Friday, 22nd March, a whooping 2.2 billion […]
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