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GOOD TIPS FROM THE POLICE
This is a good reminder for all of us. You can never read this too many times!! 1. Tip from police: The elbow is the strongest point on your body. IF YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO USE IT, DO! 2. If a robber asks for your wallet and/or purse, DO NOT HAND IT TO HIM [...]
Rumpus Over Jubilee Oil
…Is Ghana Getting Shortchanged? Watchers over Ghana’s oil have sounded the alarm bells, upon learning that ultrasonic export metres, installed on FPSO Kwame Nkrumah, the Jubilee Field production vessel, were not functioning properly, and therefore currently, the major means of determining volumes of crude oil exported was by tank dipping. Notwithstanding the fact that the [...]
Rumpus Over Jubilee Oil
…Is Ghana Getting Shortchanged? Watchers over Ghana’s oil have sounded the alarm bells, upon learning that ultrasonic export metres, installed on FPSO Kwame Nkrumah, the Jubilee Field production vessel, were not functioning properly, and therefore currently, the major means of determining volumes of crude oil exported was by tank dipping. Notwithstanding the fact that the [...]
Is University Education Still Worth It?
Two Pew Research Center surveys conducted in the U.S.A. in March 2011 indicate that almost 57% of Americans now believe that university education no longer provides “good value” for the money that students and their sponsors expend. The preceding statement may discourage any 18-year-old, right out of high school, who is determined to go to [...]
How virtuous and Hospitable is the Ghanaian today?
By Samuel Donkor Once upon a time, before the second republic,the nation Ghana was noted for her moral values, disciplined society,spirituality and virtuousness; a people of intelligence and wisdom, hard working, communually spirited and noted to have the best civil service, high educational standards, best health service delivery system, a disciplined Armed Forces and Police [...]
Ghanaian Government must partner the Private Sector to deliver developmen
By Liana Bran, Intern, IMANI With the combined efforts of the World Bank and the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MOFEP) hosted the Stakeholders Forum on Draft National Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Policy for Ghana on September 16, 2010. While participants questioned the validity of the current attempt in [...]
Lessons From Norway’s Oil Fund Investment Losses
NII MOI CALLS FOR LOCAL CAPACITY …To safeguard oil wealth By J. Ato Kobbie, Managing Editor A leading Ghanaian Economist, Dr. Nii Moi Thompson, has called for an accelerated skills development in anticipation of the new challenges that the country’s emerging oil producer status presents. Speaking to The Business Analyst in the wake of recent [...]
Ghana, the home of cocoa, has very little chocolate
Source: STEVE MBOGO There are few countries in Africa where one finds the most famous local produce or mineral readily available or affordable. In South Africa, you don’t get to see gold easily. In Kenya, very few people can afford a cup of quality coffee; in fact coffee houses are exclusive and the consolation for [...]
Why Good Governance Matters More in Africa Than Aid
Franklin Cudjoe, Heritage’s Foundry. Heads of state from across the developing world arrived in New York last two weeks for the annual United Nations meetings. Heading up the agenda this year was a summit examining the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). These leaders – generally clad in expensive suits and heading enormous entourages – again [...]
Untangling Central Africa for business
By Chofor Che As the proper role of government continue to debated in much of the free world, Africans, and in particular Central Africans can only wish they lived in relatively free economic and political environments, instead of the increasingly morbid fear that characterise their daily lives. Ideally, the true role of government in a [...]
