Albert Camus, Noah Avram Chomsky, Woodrow Wilson, Elton Mayo, Frederick Taylor and Meredith Spencer together with their management consultant Etsey Agbenorxevi recently returned to Ghana for a holiday. It was during this same period that the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world hard to the extent that nations closed their borders. Having remained in Ghana for the past 8 months, they have become very accustomed to the culture of Ghana and have decided to move their investments from the diaspora to Ghana through the vehicle of business organisation here in Ghana. Upon a visit to the University of Ghana last week Thursday, they met you at the athletic oval and begun to discuss their intentions with you a) As a Company Law student who is very ardent and meticulous in whatever you do, discuss with them the types of business organisations there are in Ghana and why they should go for a particular business organisation and not the other. b) Following your counsel in A above, they want to know all that there is about the concept of Directors of a company and to whom they owe their duties.

Albert Camus, Noah Avram Chomsky, Woodrow Wilson, Elton Mayo, Frederick Taylor and Meredith Spencer together with their management consultant Etsey Agbenorxevi recently returned to Ghana for a holiday. It was during this same period that the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world hard to the extent that nations closed their borders. Having remained in Ghana for the past 8 months, they have become very accustomed to the culture of Ghana and have decided to move their investments from the diaspora to Ghana through the vehicle of business organisation here in Ghana. Upon a visit to the University of Ghana last week Thursday, they met you at the athletic oval and begun to discuss their intentions with you a) As a Company Law student who is very ardent and meticulous in whatever you do, discuss with them the types of business organisations there are in Ghana and why they should go for a particular business organisation and not the other. b) Following your counsel in A above, they want to know all that there is about the concept of Directors of a company and to whom they owe their duties.

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