A renowned educationist, Anis Haffar has suggested to the Ghanaian government to begin the decentralisation of the country’s education system where the various Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs) should take charge of the running of basic and secondary schools in their areas.
LOCAL banks in Ghana say they are lacing their boots to compete with their colleague multinational banks in future Eurobond market.
THE Executive Director of First Atlantic Bank, Daniel Addo has advised that securitization of future remittances and trade, tourism, credit card and other future receivables could help developing countries including Ghana maintain access to international capital markets especially in times of crisis.
THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) listed three new currency futures contracts which track the exchange rate between the Rand and the Zambian Kwacha, Kenyan Shilling and Nigerian Naira.
GHANA’S Bureau of National Investigations (BNI), has released some of the 23 District Directors of the National Service Scheme (NSS) who were arrested last week in connection with alleged fraud at the secretariat.
BARCLAYS has become the first UK bank to launch scanners that identify customers by their fingers’ unique vein patterns, as the bank seeks to ramp up its fight against cyber crime and fraud.
The world must prepare for an “Armageddon”-style cyber attack, one of America’s most influential regulators has warned.
HACKERS, thought to be based in Southern Europe, accessed around a dozen JP Morgan servers and gained access to the names, addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses of swathes of its customers, the bank said.
BILLIONS of bees are dying off and the entire food chain is in danger. Bees don’t just make honey — they are a giant, humble workforce, pollinating 75% of growing plants.
RANDGOLD Resources, Kamoto Copper Company, Tenke Fungurume and MMG are just some of the leading names in mining that have been nominated for the inaugural DRC Mining Industry Awards which will be announced at the gala dinner ceremony during iPAD DRC Mining & Infrastructure Indaba on 22 October in Kinshasa.
