At the beginning of September, Ghana’s Ministry of Finance brought the heads of State-owned Enterprises (SOEs) to deliberate how to reform SOEs, some of them loss-making, in order to have them play a more strategic role in Ghana’s development.
As reported in the local press, the Vice President of Ghana, Mahamadu Bawumia (who gave the keynote address to the Policy and Governance Forum) was very candid in his directive: “Share with government not your many challenges, which we all know [about], but your strategies,” he is reported to have said, referring to strategies for ensuring financial discipline, for exploring access to new sources of capital, and for improving commercial viability.
The World Bank has said that millions of young students in low and middle-income countries mostly from Africa are not getting the best of education, a trend which could mean that they would lose on succeeding later in life.
Nivea has ignited a social media firestorm for its ‘visibly fairer skin’ billboard in Accra. Throughout Sunday, a social media campaign was launched in which African women posted selfies next to the Nivea billboard with the hash tags: #NiveaTakeItDown and #ILoveMYShadeofBrown.
African governments have over the years provided scholarships for students studying in universities in Europe, Asia and America. These scholarships are to ensure that these students upgrade themselves and acquire new knowledge and skills.
A Ghanaian mother who is frustrated by the difficulties in taking care of her four children with special needs has been rescued by a support group, Special Mothers Group from committing suicide in Accra.
Thirty years ago, the leader of Burkina Faso's revolution, Thomas Sankara, was cut down in a hail of bullets — a bloody end to a turbulent yet charismatic life that today has gained cult status in Africa.
Ghana reached a major milestone on October 4, 2017 after using US$200 million of its oil and gas resources from a Sinking Fund account as well as proceeds from previous Bond issues to “buyback” or redeem the last instalment of the 10-year Sovereign Bond issued in 2007.
One of Ghana's prestigious Universities, The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) is reported to have admitted a 13-year-old girl to study Mathematics.
Education remains, undisputedly, the primary medium of empowering, harnessing capacity for personal and national development and at the same time a tool for poverty reduction.
