Oil price drop will continue to take its toll on Nigerian banks while the coronavirus is reversing Ghanaian banks’ improving financial metrics
Kenyan banks’ profitability will remain strong and absorb higher loan provisioning without eroding capital but will fall for Tanzanian banks’ because of higher provisions
However, African...
The pandemic is accelerating a shift toward more informal and precarious work.
With millions of jobs lost, robots on the rise, and white-collar workers toiling largely at home, COVID-19 appears to have ushered in a new normal within the global workplace.
But many of these developments stem from failed policy responses...
In the past few months, I have dwelt relentlessly on the subject of customer experience - a mission I committed to after having a telling encounter years ago during my sojourn in the UK. The lessons from that encounter have undoubtedly been permanently etched in my memory until this...
The 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections were not only organised in an efficient manner but it also took place in a peaceful atmosphere, the preliminary findings of the European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) has said.
However, shortcomings identified by previous EU EOMs, mainly relating to the transparency of...
The general price levels of goods and services in November 2020 increased by 9.8 percent but represents the lowest inflation rate since the pandemic started impacting prices, data released by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) have shown.
Prior to April this year, inflation had stayed flat at 7.8 percent for...
President Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been declared the President-elect of the Republic of Ghana in a peaceful but rather fiercely contested general election. Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana, Dr. Jean Mensa, by her constitutional mandate, declared the incumbent yesterday evening.
The 2020 general election will go down...
The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has provided an ultra-modern clinic for residents of Zinnindo community in the Gushegu district of Northern Region. The gesture forms part of NPA’s corporate social responsibility to aid in curbing the high maternal mortality rate and also relieve residents of the stress they go through...
Seven short films aimed at combatting COVID-19 misinformation have been produced by the 2020 cohort of the MultiChoice Talent Factory Academy, putting the talents of young African filmmakers to work on one of the biggest challenges of our time.
The films are part of the United Nations’ Pause campaign, a...
President Akufo Addo has indicated that the results of the 2020 presidential elections show that the two major political parties---the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) must work together in the legislature for national development.
The two parties almost divided the 270 seats in parliament among...