ATUMPAN THE TALKING DRUM

                                                             Richard Ahiagble (left) and Tara Squire (right) As the Tigo-Airtel merger in Ghana is being held up for technical and possible shareholder reasons, some more people are jumping ship before they are caught up in the uncertainties of the retrenchment issues. First it was the Head of Mobile at Tigo Ghana, Tara Obodai Squire, who crossed over to Ecobank as the Head of Consumer Banking for Ghana and West Africa. Tara Squire has been replaced already with one expatriate. Now the Head of Corporate Communications and Corporate Affairs at Airtel Ghana, Richard Ahiagble has also jumped ship. It is however not clear where Ahi...

    President Akufo-Addo with Former President Jerry John Rawlings and his staff at the Flagstaff House    The evening after launching the Free Senior High School programme, President Akufo-Addo received a surprise visit from some young female Ghanaian students who had made the country proud in far away Ukraine. They were students from the Mamfe Methodist Girls Senior High School in the Eastern Region, who were raising the flag of Ghana high on the world stage. They were accompanied by former President Jerry John Rawlings. The students – Eunice Hinson, Belinda Addy and Abena Frimpomaa Ewusi – who represented Ghana in the just-ended Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship (SAGE) world cup competition, had the opportunity to participate in the event after emerging winners in the national contest in Ghana. Reason Out of the 30 countries spread across the world that participated in the competition in Ukraine, the...

  AIRTEL GHANA WINS CAPACITY AFRICA AWARDS FOR BEST CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INITIATIVE   Airtel Ghana’s transformational CSR programme has been adjudged ‘Best Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative’ at the 2017 African Carrier Awards which took place in Uganda’s capital Kampala on 5th September 2017. Airtel Ghana picked the Best Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative at the Capacity Africa Carrier Awards 2017 for the second consecutive year. The Capacity Africa Carrier Awards seeks to recognize telecom companies in Africa with outstanding performance in terms of growth, innovation, Corporate Social Responsibility amongst others. The Award recognises Airtel Ghana’s exceptional and far-reaching efforts to integrate sustainable corporate social responsibility initiatives which span education, health, and community development into its business operations. This award is a clear and unequivocal affirmation of the continu...