At least twenty top business leaders are expected to provide strategies for businesses for 2018 and beyond at this year\u2019s edition of the Crystal Ball Africa.<\/p>\n
The leaders include; Mr. Tony Oteng Gyasi \u2013 CEO of Tropical Cables (Ghana), Howard Barrie (Project Finance Expert, UK; David Ofosu-Dorte \u2013 Pan-Africa Business Lawyer (Ghana), Richard Mbaiwa (CEO, Zimbabwe Investment Authority); Olumide Akpata (Business Lawyer, Nigeria).<\/p>\n
Others are Alan Kyerematen (Minister for Trade), Hon. Ibrahim Awaal (Minister for Business Development), Yoofi Grant (CEO, GIPC) all from Ghana.<\/p>\n
The Crystal Ball Africa 2018, the 5th<\/sup>\u00a0in the series, seeks to bring businesses across Africa together and discuss issues and global phenomena that will affect their operations for the year 2018 and beyond.<\/p>\n This year\u2019s edition is targeted at getting Africa to leverage on the continent\u2019s Free Trade Agreement.<\/p>\n According to Mr. David Ofosu Dorte, the discussions have become apparent as \u2018Intra African trade has grown from 5% to 15%.\u2019<\/p>\n In addition, the trade among countries on the continent is estimated at between 2 trillion to 4 trillion dollars, hence the need to tap into the opportunities that have been least discovered.<\/p>\n \u201cWe look at this concept of trying to bring Africa together once every year and make us look into a crystal ball as to what will happen in the year,\u201d Mr. Ofosu Dorte said on the\u00a0Citi Breakfast Show<\/strong>\u00a0ahead of the event.<\/p>\n He added, \u201cCrystal Ball looks at what will happen to businesses; we are very apolitical or non-partisan\u2026to the extent that we can help politicians implement their goals or businesses take advantage of politics. That\u2019s the extent of politics that we go because it is business.\u201d<\/p>\n Highlights of the program include discussions that border on Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe, Beyond Local Content, the Combined Effect of the EPA, CFTA & China Belt & Road Initiative, among others.<\/p>\n Also, six key issues that will be explored to guide participants\u2019 business decision include; Donald Trump\u2019s administration and Russia investigations; South Africa\u2019s Jacob Zuma\u2019s decision to step down or not before the elections as well as whether Nigeria\u2019s economy will recover from current challenges.<\/p>\n This year\u2019s Crystal Ball is on the theme, \u201c”Expanding Businesses and Trade Across Africa \u2013 Opportunities Arising Out of the Continental Free Trade Agreement (CFTA) and Growing Intra-Africa Trade”.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Pius Amihere Eduku\/citibusinessnews.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At least twenty top business leaders are expected to provide strategies for businesses for 2018 and beyond at this year\u2019s edition of the Crystal Ball Africa. The leaders include; Mr. Tony Oteng Gyasi \u2013 CEO of Tropical Cables (Ghana), Howard Barrie (Project Finance Expert, UK; David Ofosu-Dorte \u2013 Pan-Africa Business Lawyer (Ghana), Richard Mbaiwa (CEO, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":389630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,171,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-local-economy","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/389630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}