Editorials/Opinion

It has been more than two months since a lecturer and head of department at the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) was caught in a blatant act of plagiarism. UPSA authorities subsequently issued a press release dated May 6,…

Say his name: George Floyd! Say his name: George Floyd! The marchers’ chants echoed down Grand Rapids’ streets on Saturday afternoon, their rhythmic call and response amplifying the sound of their united voices. They had…

12 years ago when I started Ghana Business News after leaving what was then a 'good job' at Citi FM - a story which full detail I will give one day - one of the things I have to deal with has been plagiarism. So-called leading news…

Police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, arrested a man, an African-American, George Floyd, who later died in their custody after they cuffed him, held him on the ground and three officers knelt on him with one, Derek Chauvin kneeling on his…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…