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Mansa Nettey Heads Standard Chatered

Standard Chartered has announced the appointment of Mansa Nettey as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for its...

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The Pearl On the Hill

Folklore has it that “Legon” means ‘hill’  in ‘Ga’, the language of the indigenes of the general Accra...

Business

Mansa Nettey Appointed StanChart Ghana CEO

Madam Mansa Nettey has been appointed new Chief Executive Officer of Standard Chartered Bank becoming the first female...

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Mansa Nettey Appointed StanChart Ghana CEO

Madam Mansa Nettey has been appointed new Chief Executive Officer of Standard Chartered Bank becoming the first female...

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Latest: AfDB, Alliance for Financial Inclusion sign MoU to enhance access to financial services in Africa Zimbabwe...

Business

Mansa Nettey Is New StanChart Ghana CEO

Standard Chartered has appointed Mansa Nettey as the new Chief Executive Officer for its business in Ghana. Mrs...

International

African Leaders Lack Revolutionary Experience

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe says the vote to readmit Morocco to the African Union (AU) shows a lack of ideology by...

International

Profile of the New AU Commission Chief

The African Union (AU) finally elected a new leader of its commission. Moussa Faki Mahamat won a close contest against...

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Investing in the resilience of smallholder farmers is more important than ever if we are to maintain the food security...

Opinion

Nigeria Casts Its First Social Safety Net

Lagos (AFP) - Nearly two years after taking office, Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari is making good on an election...

Opinion

The Fulani Republic Of Nigeria (Part 1)

The Sultan of Sokoto is the father of the Fulani people, the foremost traditional ruler in northern Nigeria and the...

International

Food Security Crisis In Southern Africa After Drought

Southern Africa is still recovering from the devastating effects brought on by a two-year-long El Nino event that ended...

Opinion

High Time All African States Have Left the Eurocentric ICC

Last October Burundi, South Africa and the Gambia declared they were withdrawing from the International Criminal Court...

Business

How I Created Business Out of My Passion For Interior Decoration

Senanu Arkutu is the founder and CEO of DAAR Living, an interior styling firm that is diversely African, layered and...

International

Nine Ways To Name Your Child

Traditional African names often have unique stories behind them. From the day or time a baby is born to the...

Business

Standard Chartered Appoints Bedu-Addo As Its Southern Africa CEO

Standard Chartered Bank has announced the appointment of Kweku Bedu-Addo as CEO of the Southern Africa Region...

Opinion

The Namibia Experience

Sometime after January 7 2017, my two and a half years tour of duty as Ghana’s High Commissioner to Namibia and...

International

Economic Crises? Cash Shortages? Shoe Firm Reboots To Survive

How do you sustain a business when your country's economy is collapsing all around you? For one shoe company in...

Business

Ghana, 3 Others Move To Tackle Unemployment

Ghana will today join Benin, Cote d’Ivoire and Sierra Leone to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that seeks to...