Additional $200m Loan Awaits COCOBOD
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has signed a $1.8billion cocoa syndicated loan agreement in Frankfurt, Germany, for the 2016/2017 cocoa crop year. The facility will go into the purchase of cocoa...
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Deputy Finance Minister Pledges Transparency In Oil Money Spending
Deputy Finance Minister, Mrs. Mona Quartey, has repeated the government’s unwavering commitment to ensure transparency in the spending of the oil and gas revenue to propel the growth of the economy...
Fifi Kwetey Only Qualifies As A Sports Commentator
A member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Yoofi Grant has described Transport Minister, Fifi Fiavi Kwetey as someone who can perform better when commenting on sports than on economics issues. Yoofi...
Fifi Kwetey Is A Liar and A Blockhead
Former Deputy Finance Minister and Member of Parliament for the Old Tafo, Dr. Anthony Akoto Osei has described the Transport Minister, Fifi Fiave Kwetey, as a liar and a blocked headed politician....
Government Argues Banks Into Oil and Gas Funding
For the country to achieve its lofty local content goals, the financial services sector, led by the banks, would have to cast off its fear of the risks and huge capital required, and venture into...
NPP’s Incompetence Legendary
Agric Minister Fiifi Kwetey has fired a gun scatter attack at the New Patriotic Party whose record he said has been abysmal. Mr Kwetey who resumed his "Setting the Records Straight" project to rebuff...
Veep Inaugurates Bank of Ghana Governing Board
The Vice-President, Mr Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, yesterday inaugurated the Governing Board of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) and tasked the members to work towards the stability of the economy to engender...
Amissah- Arthur Can Compete With Akoto Osei Not Bawumia
A Deputy Communications Director of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) Anthony Abayifa Karbo, has stated that the Vice President Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur can freely compare himself with other...
Ghana Presents Data On Energy Sector
Government has disclosed it is working to present data on the country’s energy sector to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which should lead to the release of the third tranche of the bailout...
South African Data Supports Gordhan’s Dismissal of Recession
South Africa's current account deficit narrowed more than expected in the second quarter, data showed on Tuesday, supporting Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan's view that Africa's most industrialized...
Ato Forson, You Cant Eat Numbers
There are at least two Deputy Finance Ministers in the Mahama-led government of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), and so I had to do a double take to ensure that I was responding to the...
Ajumako Chiefs Tell Mahama
The Chiefs of the Ajumako Traditional Area in the Central region have endorsed the candidacy of President John Dramani Mahama for a second term in office. They have promised to ensure that the...
Growth Under NDC Was Better Than NPP – Ato Forson Tells Bawumia
Deputy Finance minister, Ato Forson says an economic lecture by NPP Vice-Presidential candidate Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia ignored the facts and went for propaganda. Cassiel Ato Baah Forson said he wished...
Fears of Election Year Spending Splurge Trouble Investors
Investors’ worries over government’s spending bill this year has heightened amid uncertainty over the International Monetary Fund (IMF) three-year budgetary support deal with the country, reports...
Fiifi Kwetey Is A Screaming Mess At Transport Ministry
He is obviously earning an undeservedly fat check in the Mahama cabinet because the 49-year-old Mr. Fiifi Kwetey acquitted himself creditably as a rotten-mouthed propaganda point-man for the...
Government Using Statutory Funds As Collateral – Analyst
An energy analyst, Ishmael Edjekumhene, has accused government of using statutory funds as collateral for borrowing and deferring expenditure to justify that it will not overrun its 2016 budget....
NPP’s Promise To Reduce Taxes Deception – Ato Forson
The Central Regional Campaign Coordinator of the incumbent National Democratic Congress (NDC), Cassiel Ato Forson, has shot down the opposition New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) promise to reduce taxes...
Ghana Government Denies Fuel Shortage Reports; Says There Is Enough Supply
The government has denied claims that the supply of some petroleum products could be affected this week.
Deputy Energy and Petroleum Minister, Benjamin Dagadu explained to Joy News that the challenge...
Ghana’s Cedi, Is The World’s Worst-Performing Currency This Year – 2014
Ghana’s cedi, the world’s worst-performing currency this year, weakened as the government ruled out an International Monetary Fund bailout, stoking concern it will miss targets to narrow a budget...