The Jobs We Are Creating For Wike
When citizens leave their respective homes in search of jobs that they could be gainfully employed, their hope and aspiration often hit the bricks wall, given that many of the jobs governments across...
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Seth Terkper Leads Gov’t Delegation To Annual IMF/World Bank Meetings
Finance Minister Seth Terpker is leading government’s delegation to the International Monetary Fund (IMF)/World Bank meetings which open in Washington DC from October 4 to 14. He is joined by the...
Why Wike Shouldnt Go About Peace Without Princewill
In Rumundele Community of Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State, the residence threw open party recently in jubilation that over 200 youth from two bloody cult groups that had terrorised the...
The Battle of Hegemonies
Even though the Edo Gubernatorial election was postponed from for about two weeks, it appears not much changed within the period in terms of its outcome. Epistemologically speaking, we saw a titanic...
Restructuring of VRA Legacy Debts On Course
The Ghana Association of Bankers (GAB) says the ongoing restructuring of Volta River Authority (VRA) legacy debts on the books of some local banks is on course. The process would show a reduction of...
Akufo-Addo Is An Old Rickety Car Not Worth Trying – Allotey Jacobs
Only an old rickety and virtually useless car is tried on the road after having gone through a lot of attempts to get it repaired without success, the governing National Democratic Congress' Central...
3 Nigerian Judges Sacked Over Corruption
The National Judicial Council (NJC) of Nigeria yesterday, sacked three judges found to have abused their office by accepting gratifications from litigants before their courts. The Justices, the legal...
NDC Can’t Respond To My 170 ‘facts’ – Bawumia
Running Mate to the flagnbearer of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has stated that it is clear the National Democratic Congress (NDC) cannot respond to what he calls...
US Newspapers Break With Tradition To Condemn Donald Trump
USA Today has become the latest newspaper to break with tradition by telling readers that Donald Trump is unfit to be President. Throughout its history, America's only national daily paper has...
Is Donald Trump Actually Racist? Don’t Judge The Book By It Cover
Not if you look at his past, or even investigate those who work for him. There is one situation in particular where he actually sued a city because of their racist policy of barring Jews and Blacks...
Can Trump Win?
---Gordon Offin-Amaniampong examines the political jigsaw: Or what the writer calls the ‘Trump Three-Tier-Trap.” I get this question a lot. The latest was yesterday: “I hear people saying that...
Minimum Capital Requirement For Banks To Hit GHC500m From 2017
The minimum capital requirement for commercial banks in the country could be increased to Gh¢500 million from next year. This is what JOY BUSINESS has picked up from persons close to reviewing the...
‘Skirt and Blouse’ – Why Win the Battle and Lose the War?
'Skirt and Blouse’ – Why win the battle and lose the war? This will not be the first. We have won a few important battles in the past but we lost the wars same day. It's almost an accepted...
Exim Bank Can Be Transformative
The newly established Ghana Export Import Bank (Ghana EXIM) can boost exports and reduce country’s the balance of trade deficit, except that it has to be properly structured and well-funded,...
Pressure Mounts On BoG To Cut Rates
Ghana’s headline inflation is likely to slow further downwards raising prospects of a series of interest rate cuts as the government moves to spur growth. The country’s headline inflation rose to...
Banks Can’t Absorb US$1.8billion Cocoa Loan Inflow
Banks have admitted their inability to take the entire US$1.8 cocoa loan at once, an admission that supports moves by the central bank to delay direct transfers of the loan into the banking sector...
BoG Warns of Blacklisting Banks Over Electronic Fraud
The Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Abdul Nashiru Issahaku has asked banks to step up efforts in stemming the incidence of electronic fraud (e-fraud) in order to save the country from being...
8 Soldiers Killed In Attacks By Extremists
Islamic extremists have killed eight soldiers and wounded 17 in two attacks in northeastern Nigeria, the country's military said Monday. The attacks bring the official toll to 10 troops killed and 24...
ISIS Is Facing A ‘state of Collapse’ In Its Largest City
ISIS is facing a ‘state of collapse’ in its largest city Military vehicles of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces are seen southeast of Mosul As the great powers jam the door of Mosul for the last big...
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....