SANATU ZAMBANG STUDIOS (Podcast)

Rasheeda Mandeeya Yehuza. She is passionate about technology and how we can apply it to improve development in Ghana and in Africa at-large. Rasheeda currently works as a software engineer at VOTO Mobile, which provides a platform to amplify the voice of the under-heard and under-represented via a mobile phone notification and survey platform. In 2013, Rasheeda founded Nasara Tech Ltd, a technology-focused company that creates solutions to problems identified in local communities, and accordingly can be applied worldwide. She has led and managed the development of Nasara Tech's two in-house products, Nasara Mobile and The Nasara Voting System, as well as custom application projects for specific client needs. With her keen knowledge of technology and programming, she has also built computer games such as Buju Hunt and Sphere Attack and has developed desktop applications, including the snapso shutdown manager and web browser as freewares which can be found on sof...

 Hikmat Baba Dua is the Founder and Executive Director of League of Young Female Leaders; a registered non-profit organization focused on advancing the status of girls and women in Ghana through mentorship and advocacy coupled with a charity module. She works with LitWorld International and Global Girls Rising as Tamale Regional Coordinator for the 10,000 Global Girls Initiative. In 2013, she was awarded the MILEAD Fellowship as one of 27 most promising women leaders in Africa by the Moremi Initiative for Women’s Leadership in Africa. She is also A World at School Global Youth Ambassador, a Global Startup Youth, a Fellow of the International Development Summer Institute and a 2015 Fellow of Vital Voices. She has also been named among 200 young leaders by Women Deliver with a 3 year fellowship award. Hikmat holds a BA in Sociology and Social Work (major) with Political Science (minor) from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana....

#BUSINESS_INDEX . BUSINESS INDEX is a Television Program that seek to educate the public on the basic business ideas and tips that will help boast your income and raise awareness of certain DOs and DON'Ts in the world of business. We also speak to managers and decision makers in the business world. With me today is the former senior project manager at the NATIONAL INVESTMENT BANK, now the Managing Director of FOUNTAIN GATE MICRO FINANCE LIMITED. and our topic for discussion today is #FOREIGN_EXCHANGE .

 AUSTRALIAN DEFENDER OF MUSLIM WOMEN ASSAULTED An Australian man was attacked as he defended three Muslim women after they were verbally abused in a train in Melbourne. Police are investigating the incident that started when two men verbally abused the group of women with heads covered, Al Arabiya website reported. Australia’s The Age newspaper claims one of the men criticized the women for their headscarves when they sat next to them saying: “You shouldn’t be wearing that (expletive) in Australia.” Jason Cias, 36, said he was hit in the face after an argument broke out and one of the older women spoke in Arabic in a bid to diffuse the situation. The men then said: “You shouldn’t be speaking that (expletive) in Australia.” As the women got off the train, one of the men hurled a sexual threat to which Cias reacted. Cias said in comments carried by The Independent: “I said to the guy, ‘Mate, they’re women’. The implication there was you don’t threaten people...