Liberia’s first female Vice President, Howard Taylor has dismissed assertions that she will use her office to pursue an agenda of ensuring the return of Liberia’s former leader, Charles Taylor who is her ex-husband. Perceptions are rife that her being in office can influence the return of the former leader who has been jailed for … Read more
World Bank investments in commercial financial institutions are indirectly allowing land-grabs, evictions and pollution in Southeast Asia, a watchdog group charged in a report Friday. By investing in banks and other so-called financial intermediaries, World Bank funds can increase poverty, social strife and promote projects which hasten climate change, according to a report by Inclusive … Read more
When a scandal over unauthorized accounts rocked Wells Fargo & Co’s (WFC. N) retail division last fall, executives at its asset management arm sprang into action to limit its fallout at an already tough time for their business. A Reuters’ review of minutes from about two dozen state and municipal pension board meetings across the … Read more
London can breathe easy – it will continue to be the financial lungs of Europe, according to Barclays chief executive Jes Staley. While he admits the bank may have to move some activities to bases in Dublin or Germany, he believes that most of their European banking business can continue to be done from the … Read more
He is passionately partisan ad-nauseam and has staunchly and unconscionably defended the right of his outgoing paymaster to grossly abuse his publicly underwritten office, in the form of the shameless solicitation of bribes at the expense of the well-being of the hardworking Ghanaian taxpayer. And so whatever contribution Mr. Daniel Batidam has to make on … Read more
I am not on Ground Zero and so I don’t know what sort of development agenda Vice-President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur is talking about, when the former Governor of the Bank of Ghana calls his boss an “uncompleted project” ( See “ ‘Mahama is an Uncompleted Project’ – Amissah-Arthur” Atinkafmonline.com / Ghanaweb.com 11/23/16). What I know … Read more
Did Omane-Boamah receive his cut of Woyome’s mega-heist? Finally, the chickens are coming home to roost. If unfettered justice is allowed to have its way, Ghanaians would soon learn the scandalous details of how the GHc 51 million criminally paid into the private bank account of Mr. Alfred Agbesi Woyome, the notorious National Democratic Congress’ … Read more
Finally, the chickens are coming home to roost. If unfettered justice is allowed to have its way, Ghanaians would soon learn the scandalous details of how the GH₵ 51 million criminally paid into the private bank account of Mr. Alfred Agbesi Woyome, the notorious National Democratic Congress’ underwriter, was divvied up among the movers and … Read more