Pink October With Ericka Hart
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Cement Manufacturers Mad At Spio-Garbrah
The Cement Manufacturers Association of Ghana (CMAG) has expressed dismay at Minister of Trade & Industry, Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, for offering a permit to a Chinese to import 500,000 metric tons of...
Spio-Garbrah Persuades Ghanaians Over ‘Made In Ghana’ Campaign
The Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr. Ekow Spio-Garbrah says persuasion and appeal to the national pride, will culminate in achieving the objectives of the made in Ghana campaign. Though the...
Ghacem Reacts To Cement Price War Story
We are compelled to reluctantly offer some education to the unsuspecting readers of the above write-up which was unfortunately published as a front page story on the Daily Graphic of Tuesday October...
Disgruntled NDC Organiser Exposes Party, Resigns
The Constituency Organiser of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) at Shama in the Western Region has not only resigned from the party after the abrogation of a GH300, 000 six Unit classroom...
Cement Companies In Price ‘war’
The price of cement has dropped slightly on the market in what appears to be a price war among competing brands. Dangote Cement Ghana Limited was the first to drop its price in September, following...
The Nima Boy At Gawbofest 2016
The book Things Fall Apart is the magnum opus of one of the world’s greatest writers, Chinua Achebe. The book is much revered mostly for its popular protagonist, Okonkwo. Others give much reverence...
Ban On Imports Not Solution To Trade Imbalances
An advisor to the Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Mr. Franklin Belnye has kicked against the placement of ban on some selected imported items as a measure of improving Ghana’s budget deficit....
I’m Not Dead – Dangote
Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote has denied reports that he is dead. Dw-tv3.com reported that Mr Dagote died at age 59 in Germany after a short illness. The publication has gone viral on social...
Students Get ‘mere’ GHS38 From Free SHS – NPP
Students in Ghana’s senior high schools only enjoy GHS38 as subsidy under President John Mahama’s progressively free SHS programme, Mr Boakye Agyarko, Policy Adviser to the New Patriotic...
Mahama Puts Corruption First
Even though President John Dramani Mahama and the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) say they are putting Ghanaians first, their actions belie that, Mr Boakye Agyarko, Policy Advisor to the...
Mahama Has Made Ghanaians Poorer – NPP
President John Mahama and his governing National Democratic Congress have made Ghanaians poorer, Mr Boakye Agyarko, Policy Adviser to the flag bearer of the main opposition New Patriotic Party, Nana...
GREL To Buy 19,500 Tonnes of Dry Rubber
The Ghana Rubber Estates Limited (GREL) is confident of purchasing approximately 19,500 tonnes of dry rubber from over 3000 farmers in the Western, Ashanti, Eastern and the Central regions by close...
Cement Sales Decline By 3% On Power Cuts
Expectations are high among cement producers that there will be a recovery in consumption this year after a sharp fall in sales last year on accounts of the recent power supply challenges in the...
Sifting Through the NPP Debt Debate
Doe, James W. Central government borrowing results in National debt as we all know. But all the debt debate in Ghana should be put in a global perspective. In order for all to know the full story and...
Hospital Boss Uses Drug Truck As Tipper
Workers at the Upper East Regional Hospital are clamouring for the recall of a transferred administrator to answer charges over an official vehicle he misused whilst in office. The former...
Spio Garbrah Stabs Cement Producers
Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, Minister of Trade & Industry, is said to be busily issuing cement licences to Chinese importers to import substandard cement even before a nine-member committee mandated by...
Recession And Nigerias Disarticulated Economy
Every economy managed according to the rules of capitalism may experience boom, recession or depression. Nigeria’s current recession has been in the pipeline to burst anytime the shallowness of her...
Ban on Importation of Cement Starts Friday, August 5
Importation of cement to Ghana will be seen as an illegitimate venture following the maturation of the Import and Export Regulations Bill this week.
The Bill will outlaw the bagging and importation...