Editorials/Opinion

It didn’t take rocket science, or the use of any extraordinary powers for anyone with an eye on Ghana’s banking industry to predict the crisis which results started showing in the last one year with the collapse of seven commercial banks. Very likely more would follow. The Bank of Ghana …

Addressing a standing room only crowd of global agriculture experts at the FAO headquarters in Rome, 2017 World Food Prize Laureate and President of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, says the answer is a resounding yes! He believes Africa does not need aid but disciplined investments. According to this …

The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! …The law […] became the weapon of every kind of greed [,] and [i]nstead of checking crime, the law itself became guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish […]! – Frédéric Bastiat, 1801 – …

The fight against corruption in Ghana is getting tainted by the day. In the forefront of the perfidious campaign to invalidate the country’s democratic process with inactions against corrupt appointed officials is the government itself. The Executive arm of government, which is increasingly acting more like an extension of the …

During the 2016 electioneering campaign, Donald Trump labeled the People’s Republic of China a “currency manipulator” and promised increased tariffs on Chinese exports into the United States by 45 per cent. Trump proposed the idea during a wide-ranging meeting with members of the editorial board of The New York Times. …

Tomorrow May 22, 2018 history will be made in West African journalism as the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) working with the Norbert Zongo Centre for Investigative Journalism (CENOZO), brought together some 13 journalists from 11 countries in the region to dig into 27.5 million files from the Panama …

Dear Governor, I dare say that whereas the GH¢400 million ($88.5 million) minimum capital requirement you have placed on banks is not a bad policy in and of itself, but the fact that the decision is threatening to make Ghanaians mere spectators of the mainstream financial sector instead of major participants …

The crisis in the banking sector in Ghana has been known for some time now – at least, for more than six years. But the biggest question has always been what was being done to forestall the crisis from blowing up into major banking catastrophes leading to collapse of banks …

The entire staff of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) this week mourns the passing of the institution’s longest serving Executive Secretary, Professor Adebayo Adedeji, who passed away on 25 April 2018. In a statement to all ECA staff, the Executive Secretary, Vera Songwe described Professor Adedeji as greatly …

Africa’s strive towards continental integration and free trade has received another major boost. Fourty four African countries signed the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) in Kigali, Rwanda on March 21, 2018. What was outstanding was that parliaments of those countries were expected to ratify the agreement and the AfCfTA …