SO SOON we are into the eight months of 2010. Many businesses, particularly small and medium scale enterprises, are beginning to wake up to the year and prospects it holds for them.

Vehicular traffic in some parts of Accra, especially the Mallam-Kasoa Highway, is becoming unbearable for motorists and commuters.

Ghana, it seems, has not finished with Nigeria. A new policy targeted at Nigerians doing business in Ghana requires each foreign businessman to pay a levy of $300,000 and employ a certain number of Ghanaians or have his business premises sealed off.

A fine product by all standards, e-zwich has been neglected to the background despite the enormous benefits it brings to the financial services industry and the economy as a whole.

GHANAIANS ARE still in a fix as to why lending rates have still remained high despite the continual fall in inflation.

The private sector has always been described as the engine of growth in most emerging economies. For this growth to be achieved, individual business men and women should be able to have access to credit.