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The regulatory compliance of FinTech in Ghana
Background
The digitalization of financial services has been on the rise globally, partly to support the financial inclusion agenda as well as to address the changing needs of customers. This call to advance financial inclusion across…
Why Capitalism can’t cure global pandemics
Multinational corporations are motivated by profit, which comes from disease, not people’s health.
We frequently hear that COVID-19 is the worst pandemic since the influenza of 1918. It is forgotten that another pandemic known as “the…
Ayine v Amidu case calls for an amendment of mandatory retirement law
I woke up to the news that the Supreme Court (SC) has decided the Ayine v Amidu case by a 5-2 majority against the plaintiff.
It is good that this matter, albeit delayed, has ended. In a democracy, the Court has the last word and it has…
COVID-19: When should Ghanaians expect cases to start declining, as current number rises to 4,700?
Since Ghana announced the first two confirmed COVID-19 cases on March 12, the country as at May 10, 2020 has recorded 4,700 positive cases. The cases are said to have come from backlogs of samples being tested in labs.
There are 494…
Benin still holds journalist Ignace Sossou in jail despite mounting evidence of his innocence
The Benin authorities have continued to show their disdain for the rule of law and the principles of natural justice by keeping in jail one of the country’s top journalists, Ignace Sossou whose works have exposed persons engaged in…
Africa needs debt relief to fight COVID-19
After a slow start, COVID-19 has spread increasingly rapidly throughout Africa, with more than 7,000 confirmed cases and 294 deaths across 45 countries and two territories as of April 7. Unless the continent urgently receives more…
They were not expecting the coronavirus, but it came
A country of some 30 million people. Ghanaians are deeply religious and more Catholic than the Pope. They heard about the coronavirus when it began its unnerving decimation of Chinese society in Wuhan, in the Hubei Province in December…
The coronavirus and your kidneys
The whole world is now virtually at a standstill. The rate of speed of the virus is astronomical and the death toll from the coronavirus is increasing by the hour. There are as much as 793 people dying within 24 hours in Italy as a result…
Profile: Prof Mensa-Bonsu President’s nominee to Supreme Court
Professor Henrietta Joy Abena Nyarko Mensa-Bonsu, a Professor of law at the University of Ghana has been nominated to the Supreme Court by President Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
In her profile, it stated that Prof Mensa-Bonsu’s…
Clean energy is key to Africa’s transformation
The African Continent today stands at a sustainable development crossroads.
On the one hand, the economic and governance picture suggests that Africa is poised to play a major role in the world—with burgeoning trade, investment, and…