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I remember early attempts by companies like Clydestone, CoreNett, SoftTribe, eTranzact, IT-Consortium just to mention but a few who saw the vision and the power of technology to improve financial services in the early 2000’s. These early bird tech companies worked in diverse ways, to provide financial technology services to banks. These attempts though were not without challenges. You could see and feel their frustration with every resistance that came from a bank. Their ideas and solutions perhaps disruptive; but those were the early days when knowledge about the transformational power of technology was scanty. I have been encouraged to…

I am a trained youth leader for health, and advocate regularly for increased domestic resources for enhanced malaria responses and health system strengthening. At a recent meeting in Addis Ababa, (Fig 1) we advocated through the Ghana Embassy and African Union for more political commitments towards malaria responses. 2:30am GMT mid-week and I can barely sleep. I have been awake for the past hour and a half, thinking about global health. I have lost sleep over the COVID-19 pandemic and its devastating impact on other public health issues, especially malaria. I brace myself for the day ahead especially now that…

The extension of the ban on social and public gathering to 31st May, 2020 by the president left a section of the general public disappointed as many were anticipating that the six (6) weeks old restrictions would be relaxed. Lifting the ban would have paved way for schools, churches and other social activities to begin. Prior to President Akufo-Addo’s ninth address to update the nation on COVID-19, some censured the Christian Council of Ghana (CCG) for advocating and pushing government to lift the ban regardless of the increase in Ghana COVID 19 case count. Christian Council had in a statement…

Experts will on Tuesday, May 12, review the effectiveness of government’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic with the view to discerning the key lessons learned from their outcomes, to enhance policymaking towards managing the pandemic in future. This will come exactly 60 days after Ghana confirmed its first case on March 12, 2020. Dubbed ”60 DAYS OF COVID-19 IN GHANA: Assessing Ghana’s Response to the Pandemic over 60 Days”, the Media General Group assembles yet another disguised panel drawn from various sectors of healthcare to assess the measures taken to mitigate and contain the various. Prior to Ghana recording its…

The President of Ghana Rugby and former Chairman of Kumasi Asante Kotoko, Mr Herbert Mensah, has echoed the COVID-19 call for “Safety First” at the 19th commemoration anniversary of the tragic Accra Sports Stadium disaster that struck on 9 May 2001 in Accra, Ghana. Due to restrictions imposed as a result of the 2020 novel Coronavirus, COVID-19, this year’s commemoration was limited to a small gathering of persons with disability who again received mobility aids donated by DESO. DESO (Disabled Equipment Sent Overseas) is a UK-based charity run by ‘Aunty Mavis’, a British-Ghanaian woman whose charity work in Ghana spans…

Yes, some mothers too can rap – possibly better than some mainstream acts – and if you don’t believe it ask the many who watched Madam Deborah Etadot-Doste perform live on TV3. Madam Etadot-Doste was among some talented mums who took the stage to show off some impressive skills during TV3’s Mama’s Got Talent reality show. Ghana’s number one television station – TV3 – organised the reality show on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 10, a day set aside to celebrate mothers. Mother’s Day is a celebration honouring the mother of the family, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds, and the…

The ban on public gatherings introduced by government to stem the tide in the spread of the deadly coronavirus the country has been extended to the end of May, President Nana Akufo-Addo has announced. “Tonight, I have come into your homes to announce that the ban on public gatherings, as set out in E.I 64, has been extended also to the end of the month, i.e. 31st May,” he said on Sunday in his ninth televised address to update Ghanaians on the country’s covid-19 situation, Accordingly, the President said the holding of conferences, workshops, parties, nightclubs, drinking spots, beaches, festivals,…

Twenty-four hours after Ghana recorded 921 novel coronavirus cases, 437 new confirmed cases have been registered by health authorities Sunday, bringing the total to 4,700. “With our total number of infections standing at 4,700 with 494 recoveries, 5 persons being critically ill and 4,179 responding to treatment, 22 persons virtually all of them with underlying illnesses such as hypertension, diabetes and chronic liver disease have unhappily died,” President Nana Akufo-Addo announced on Sunday. The figures, the President said, is from the 160,501 tests conducted in the country since the first two cases on March 12. Of the active positive cases,…

Grime. A nation’s day of grief. Ghana’s football day of terror. Wednesday May 9, 2001. The Accra Sports Stadium had just witnessed a beautiful game of football after rush hour. For the 90 minutes it hosted the home side Accra Hearts of Oak and the visiting team Kumasi Asante Kotoko, two of Ghana’s biggest clubs, football did what it does best: bring joy to the thousands who had thronged the venue. But that excitement was short-lived as what is today, Ghana’s biggest sporting horror reared its head. All it took was a careless spark of fan indiscipline, agitation, misplaced bravado…