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Register with Data Protection Agencies to protect customers…Glydetek Group CEO tells Financial Institutions
The Chief Executive Officer of the Glydetek Group Limited, an institution that provides banking services to financial institutions, Mr Justice Adade has called on financial institutions, especially cooperative unions to register with Data Protection Agencies in the country to protect their customers’ confidential information to prevent fraudsters from attacking them.
According to him, even though technology was necessary to advance the work of financial institutions, it was important that they become aware of the many fraudsters who have emerged and using all means to defraud customers in the country and around the world.
“It is good for the financial institutions to embrace technology or digitization to enhance their work in this era of technological advancement, but it is also necessary they adopt all means to protect customer data to prevent these fraudsters from reaching them,” he said.
Mr Adade was speaking at the 2022 Annual glGeneral Meeting of the Cocoa Research Co-operative Credit Union (CRCCU) Limited held over the weekend on the theme: “Digital, Technology for Financial Institutions.”
The meeting which brought together members of the Cooperative Union, was purposed to enable the board to give an account of their activities, over the period under review to members and assess challenges, achievements and way for forward.
Mr Adade noted that even though technology came with it challenges such as encountering fraudsters, it would be expedient that co-operative unions join the digitization agenda by embracing technology to enhance their work.
He said banks in the country have currently embraced technology as well as other financial institutions, adding that the cooperatives should not allow themselves to be left out.
“Rather do everything possible to protect your customers’ data and educate them on ensuring that they do not share confidential information with people outside the bank,” he reiterated.
He expressed worry over some customers who still preferred the traditional way of banking where they preferred to use the banking halls, indicating that technology has brought about mobile banking services that they could embrace to cut cost of money, time, and transportation in transacting business with the banks.
He said benefits including convenience, safety for customers as well as wider outreach, liquidity growth and increase in liquid margins for the banks would be achieved and added that it would make life easier for both customers and the banks.
For his part, the Chairman for the CRCCU, Mr George Akumfi Ameyaw stated that the cooperative has intended to go digital to enjoy the benefits that come with digitization and hence have started mobile banking services which was being offered to customers who cannot patronize the banking hall or would want to do transactions at the comfort of their homes.
He congratulated the board and members for their cooperation over the year under review and revealed that membership has grown to 3,014 members in 2022 from 2,211 members in 2021, indicating a growth of about 36 percent and revealed total assets of the co-operative has increased to GH26 million as at December 2022 from GH21 million in 2021.
From Ama Tekyiwaa Ampadu Agyeman, Tafo
The professor who spends his days exploring the intricacies of African languages found himself at the centre of a different kind of lesson on Friday, October 2, 2026. 
This time, there were no lecture notes, academic arguments or university classrooms. Instead, there was the weight of tradition, the rhythm of a community celebration and the solemnity of an oath at a royal palace.
Professor Ọbádélé Kambon, a full Professor of African Linguistics at the University of Ghana, was enstooled as Apagyahene and Sunsum Ɔsahene of Akuapem Mampong in the Eastern Region in a ceremony that brought academia and traditional authority together.
For the professor, the occasion was more than a new title. It was a moment that connected his academic interests in African languages and indigenous knowledge with the living traditions of an Akan community.
The day’s events unfolded through a series of customary observances. Kambon was first taken to the compounds of the Ɔkyeamehene and Gyasehene, where the preparations for his installation continued.
Then came the application of hyire, the white kaolin powder associated with traditional rites.
With the customary proceedings underway, the new chief was lifted onto the shoulders of celebrants and carried along the main thoroughfare of Akuapem Mampong.
The procession transformed the streets into a public stage for a ceremony rooted in the community’s traditional institutions.
There was something striking about the image, a university professor, accustomed to the measured language of academic discourse, being carried through the town in a display of traditional recognition.
Yet the celebration was not complete with the procession.
A ram was sacrificed at the Mamponghene’s compound before Kambon was taken to the palace, to swear the oath associated with his new offices.
The ceremony brought him formally into his roles as Apagyahene and Sunsum Ɔsahene.
Beyond the colourful proceedings, the titles themselves carry layers of historical meaning.
Kambon in his research explores the historical connections between Apagya and Akan political and military organisation.
Accounts cited in his work linked Apagya to an asafo, or military company, while historical writing traces an Apagya stool in Asante to the reign of Opoku Ware I in the eighteenth century.
These historical associations offer a glimpse into the institutions that have shaped Akan society over generations, although they do not automatically define the precise responsibilities of the office in Akuapem Mampong.
Kambon’s own professional life reflects a similar interest in preserving and examining African knowledge.
His work encompasses Akan language structure, naming practices across the Black world, proverbs and indigenous intellectual traditions.
Through Abibitumi, the platform he founded, he also promotes language learning, scholarship and cultural engagement.
But tradition was only one part of the story that day.
When the formal ceremony gave way to a reception, the occasion expanded into a celebration of three milestones: Kambon’s enstoolment, his promotion to full professor and his daughter Ama’s admission to the University of Ghana.
The gathering therefore carried a personal significance that went beyond the honours bestowed on one man. 
It celebrated professional advancement, the continuation of family aspirations and a connection to cultural heritage.
For a father, seeing a daughter gain admission to the same university where he holds a distinguished academic position offered another reason to celebrate.
For the professor, the moment placed family achievement alongside his own professional and traditional milestones.
Kambon had already established a place in the traditional life of Akuapem Mampɔn through an earlier installation as Banmuhene Kyidɔmhene, recorded in 2017.
His latest enstoolment adds another chapter to that relationship.
In Akuapem Mampɔn, the day brought together the university, the palace and the family table in one celebration. And for Kambon, the journey from the lecture room to the traditional procession showed how scholarship, cultural responsibility and family achievement could converge in a single memorable occasion.
By Enoch Ntiamoah Siaw
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Intercity STC Coaches Limited has interdicted a driver captured in a viral video allegedly hitting a Sprinter bus during an overtaking manoeuvre at Pokuase before driving away from the scene.
In a public notice, the company described the driver’s conduct as unacceptable, stressing that it did not reflect the safety standards and professionalism it upholds.
Management said it had commenced an immediate investigation into the incident and identified the driver, who has been interdicted pending the outcome of the disciplinary process.
The company added that it was awaiting an official report from the Pokuase Police Command to help establish the facts surrounding the incident.
STC reaffirmed its commitment to passenger safety and responsible road use, while thanking members of the public for bringing the incident to its attention.
Management assured the public that appropriate action would be taken following the investigation.
By: Jacob Aggrey
