Time For Equity
By Kwamina K. Asomaning Executive Director and Head of Corporate and Investment Banking, Stanbic Bank Ghana Deepening our financial sector requires greater access to private pools of equity capital...
Tag: economy
Striking State Attorneys ‘fight’ AG Over ‘lay-Off Threat’
It seems Ghana’s State Attorneys are bent on having their demands of better conditions of service met before they return to work. The Association of State Attorneys declared a strike in October...
Obama Got Tough On China. It Cost U.S. Jobs and Raised Prices
Protect American jobs by getting tough on China. That's the underlying idea behind President-elect Donald Trump's threat of a 45% tariff against China as a ploy to bring jobs back to America. Before...
New Minimum Wage Is Realistic – Labour Analyst
Labour Analyst, Austin Gammey has described as fair, the new national daily minimum wage which takes effect this month. According to him, the figure will among other things enable employers meet...
SSNIT Increases Pension Benefits By 18%
The Social Security National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has increased pension benefits of pensioners by 18%. This is however 2 percent lower than that of 2016 which was 20 percent. In 2016, the pension...
SSNIT Increases Pension Benefits By 18%
The Social Security National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has increased pension benefits of pensioners by 18%. This is however 2 percent lower than that of 2016 which was 20 percent. In 2016, the pension...
I’ve Not Been Denied UK Visa – Dzifa Attivor
Former Transport Minister, Dzifa Attivor, has denied reports in section of the media that she has been denied a Visa into the United Kingdom (UK). Report went viral on social media on Tuesday, that...
I’ve Not Been Denied UK Visa
Former Transport Minister, Dzifa Attivor, has denied reports in section of the media that she has been denied a Visa into the United Kingdom (UK). Report went viral on social media on Tuesday, that...
New Minimum Wage Is Realistic – Labour Analyst
Labour Analyst, Austin Gammey has described as fair, the new national daily minimum wage which takes effect this month. According to him, the figure will among other things enable employers meet...
Ethiopian Airlines To Begin Non Stop Services To Singapore
Ethiopian Airlines, the largest and fastest growing African airline will start a direct and non-stop service to Singapore by June 2017 using the ultra-modern Boeing 787. Singapore’s Changi airport...
Stanbic Worker Dupes Customers To the Tune of GHc 900,000
Pictures of the Stanbic worker has been posted on the bank’s Facebook timeline, with a message urging anyone with information on her whereabouts, to call the police. 33-year-old Amakye Martha,...
Five African Inventions To Look Out For In 2017
Here are five African inventions which may take off in 2017. Problem: A total of 1.3 billion people worldwide currently don’t have electricity, according to Yale Environment 360. Getting people in...
Wanted! Runaway Stanbic Worker Pocketed GHc900,000
A 33-year-old outsourced worker of Stanbic Bank Ghana has been declared wanted by the Ghana Police Service for allegedly defrauding scores of customers of the bank of more than GHc 900,000. The...
BDCs Says Government Debt Rises To US$384 Million
Ghana's domestic oil importers said on Friday they may take legal action against the government to recover interest on an outstanding debt of $384 million that presents an early headache for the...
Heed The Lesson Jimmy Carter Never Learned
I recently observed how the 2016 race reflects American conditions in the late 1970s — also stagnant — and how the political elites are echoing President Jimmy Carter’s feckless reaction in his...
Oil Prices Rise
Oil prices rose in the first trading hours of 2017, buoyed by hopes that a deal between OPEC and non-OPEC members to cut production, which kicked in on Sunday, will be effective in draining a global...
Stanbic Worker Dupes Customers To the Tune of GHc 900,000
A 33-year-old outsourced worker of Stanbic Bank Ghana has been declared wanted by the Ghana Police Service for allegedly defrauding scores of customers of the bank of more than GHc 900,000. The...
Stanbic Worker Dupes Customers To the Tune of GH¢900,000
A 33-year-old outsourced worker of Stanbic Bank Ghana has been declared wanted by the Ghana Police Service for allegedly defrauding scores of customers of the bank of more than GH¢900,000. The...
Finland Gives 2,000 Citizens Guaranteed Income
Finland has started a radical experiment: It's giving 2,000 citizens a guaranteed income, with funds that keep flowing whether participants work or not. The program, which kicks off this month, is...
Oil Prices Rise As Markets Eye OPEC, Non-OPEC Production Cuts
U. S. oil prices rose in the first trading hours of 2017 on Tuesday, buoyed by a deal for OPEC and non-OPEC production cuts which kicked off on Sunday. U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI)...