Currently, we all depend on our smartphones for almost everything. Taking a quick picture, vlogging about latest ideas, getting some work done while commuting to the office or even having a kicked back session of smartphone gaming. However, to pull off all of these activities without any hiccups, a...
When I set out as a student of communication, one of the many acronyms I quickly learnt was K.I.S.S. For the purpose of this discussion, we expand K.I.S.S. to mean Keep It Simple and Sweet, with other variations that substitute simple for ‘short’.
Given that you are talking with a...
Economic activity this year will be significantly lower than projected in the April 2020 Regional Economic Outlook for sub-Saharan Africa. Real GDP is now forecast to contract by 3.2 percent in sub-Saharan Africa, double the contraction envisaged in April.
The downward revision of the growth projections reflects the impact of...
Africa's artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector has development potential. At their peak in 2017 these mines in Niger employed as many as 600 000 people and created opportunities for local infrastructural development. But these prospects are undermined by criminals who profiteer from the sector at the expense of...
As with so much else, international development has been severely affected by the coronavirus pandemic. How might we use these lessons to reshape the sector, rather than returning to the status quo?
For starters, the crisis has reminded us that nature still reigns supreme, and it should spur us to...
As part of the Global Media Alliance Broadcasting Company (GMABC) ‘Financial Literacy Month’, the Managing Director (MD) of Ecobank Development Corporation Investments (EDC), Paul Kofi Mante, sat down with Brown Berry on ‘Ryse and Shyne’ in an interview to give tried and tested tips on money-making through the right...
Yinson Production West Africa Limited (“YPWAL”) has donated a Biological Safety Cabinet worth USD4,600 to the National Public Health Reference Laboratory at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana in support of the ongoing battle against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Additionally, YPWAL has pledged to provide the laboratory with USD4, 500...
The Institute of Industrial Research (IIR) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has held an open-day as part of its stakeholder engagements planned for Work Package 3 of the Recirculate project, which is currently underway.
The event was held under the topic ‘Water for Food Production’, and...
Hope for Future Generations (HFFG) on Thursday 25, 2020, took delivery of packs of hygiene kits and emergency food supplies from the Ghana office of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA Ghana), for onward distribution to marginalised young people, especially those living with HIV across Ghana.
The support items were...