Development
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African Leaders: Your Days are Numbered |
| Other people and nations have their ideas about what we should be doing, where we should be heading and who should be leading us now. We though, have our own. Or, at least, it is to be hoped that we do. It is fine to feel inspired to make compromises on behalf of other people but it’s dreadful to feel obliged to do this.... |
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Reversing Permanent Backwardness |
| Permanent Secretaries, for instance, are ‘Permanent Nothing’! If you are a permanent Secretary, what have you done to show that you are permanent? Why do we have permanent backwardness in a continent of Permanent Secretaries?... |
Q&A
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FAQs for Business Reporters |
| Stock prices rise when investors become more optimistic about the chances that a given company or group of companies will generate higher profits. Prospects of higher profits increase demand for stocks and raise stock prices. Conversely, when investors turn fearful about the outlook for profits, stock prices fall.... |
Profiles
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History of Benin |
| Benin is a West African nation on the Gulf of Guinea, between Togo on the west and Nigeria on the east, is about the size of Tennessee. It is bounded also by Burkina Faso and Niger on the north. The land consists of a narrow coastal strip that rises to a swampy, forested plateau and then to highlands in the north. A hot and humid climate blankets the entire country.... |
Commentary
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The Poor Can’t Absorb Information! |
| As much as journalists may write stories that can empower the village folk, readership, purchasing power and newspaper circulation networks within areas they inhabit is low. So, how will this information benefit them if they do not have a chance to read it in the first place?... |
Finance and Banking
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A Liberalized Stock Market Good for Africa |
| We must urgently figure out how we can use a reformed stock market to finance projects that can turn poverty into history. We can turn the traditional ‘Harambee’ (fundraising) into a stock investment system for low income earners.... |
Agriculture
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Genetic Engineering, Not the Only Option |
| GE is one of the tools we can use to increase food production. However, it is a powerful tool that will significantly increase our ability to produce the quantities of food that our growing world population will need.... |
Report
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Throw Unprofitable Governments Out! |
| Although most Africans vote for change, what they get is a change in personalities as opposed to government fundamentals.... |
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Prof. Ayittey Now Nkosuohene of Teacher Mante |
| An Associate Professor at the American University in Washington D.C. has been enstooled the Nkosuohene of Teacher Mante, a town along the Nsawam-Suhum road in the Easter Region of Ghana, under the stool name Nana Oboafo Professor Ayittey Mante II.... |
Human Rights
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“Righting” the Wrongs |
| The mass media, freed from years of suppression, and convinced beyond all reasonable doubt that an entrenched “culture of rights” is the best formula for Ghana’s advancement, is in the forefront of growing human rights mores.... |
