Merge New Ministries To Save Cost
IMANI Centre for Policy and Education has expressed some reservations over the number of ministries created by the new government and called for a merger of the new portfolios with the existing...
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Tension At Cocobod As Transition Team Meets Dr Opuni
There is an uneasy calm at the headquarters of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) in Accra as the government Transition Team meets with the Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Stephen Opuni, to hand over...
COCOBOD Moved To Agric Ministry ?
It appears the Nana Akufo-Addo government may move the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) from the supervision of the Ministry of Finance to the Ministry of Agriculture. Shortly after Dr. Owusu Afriyie...
Govt Fires CEO of COCOBOD
The Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) Dr. Stephen K. Opuni has been sacked. A letter signed by the Secretary to the President, Nana Badiatuo Asante directed Dr. Opuni to handover...
Elizabeth Quaye Nominated For Ministry of Fisheries & Aquaculture
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has named Elizabeth Afoley Quaye as the Minister nominated for Fisheries and Aquaculture . Madam Quaye who is the Member of Parliament for Krowor in the Greater...
Restructure COCOBOD, Don’t Move It To Agric Ministry
The General Agriculture Workers Union (GAWU) has called for restructuring of the Ghana Cocoa Board(COCOBOD) to make it efficient rather than just moving it from the Ministry of Finance to the...
Restructure COCOBOD, Don’t Move It To Agric Ministry- GAWU
The General Agriculture Workers Union (GAWU) has called for restructuring of the Ghana Cocoa Board(COCOBOD) to make it efficient rather than just moving it from the Ministry of Finance to the...
Hackman Owusu-Agyemang For Chief of Staff
The President-elect, Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo is expected to name his Cabinet and other Ministers immediately after being sworn into office on 7th January, 2017, but one key position which has...
Buhari Presents $24bn Budget To the National Assembly
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday presented a record 7.298 trillion naira ($24 billion) budget for 2017 to lawmakers which is aimed at pulling Africa’s biggest economy out of its...
Nigerian Statesman In Corruption Scandal
For the past one week, the Borno-born civil servant has been running from pillar to pole, in a bid to save whatever is left of his battered image amid revelations that he is allegedly behind the...
Nduom Cuts Sod For Construction of Assin Breku Rice Mill
Founder and President of Groupe Nduom (GN), Paa Kwesi Nduom has formally broken grounds to kickoff the construction of the Assin Breku Rice Mill. Just like the Worawora Rice Mill in Volta Region,...
Nduom Opens Rejuvenated Rice Mill In Worawora, Volta Region
President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghanaian business empire, Groupe Nduom Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, has officially opened the Worawora Rice Mill Factory which will produce...
Stanbic Bank To Provide Farmers Easy Access To Credit
Stanbic Bank has reiterated its commitment to give farmers easy access to loan facilities to help them adopt better technology, and to buy better quality seeds and fertilizers. Over the years,...
African Farmers Need Transformative Adaptation To Climate Change
Many African smallholder farmers and farm communities are oblivious to the fact that they are experiencing low crop and animal yields partly due to climate change. In countries like Ghana, many are...
Lifting Rice Ban Unfortunate
Rice importers have described as unfortunate government’s decision to lift the ban placed on inland importation of rice. They are now urging inspection agencies to be extra-vigilant to ensure that...
My Buhari Moment
President Muhammadu Buhari called on Nigerians to give thanks to God and pray for the founding fathers as Nigeria celebrated her 56th Independence day anniversary. In his address to the nation in the...
Sustainable Rice Systems Development In Sub-Saharan Africa Project Underway
Ten countries (Benin, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, the United Republic of Tanzania and Uganda) met in a two-day technical workshop from 22 to 23 September 2016...
Tilapia, Cashew Draw Vietnamese Investors
Vietnamese investors, currently on a one-week working visit to Ghana, are seeking to establish joint ventures with Ghanaian partners in the production of tilapia, cashew and rice. At a Ghana-Vietnam...
Expansion of Rice Production Is Our Policy
Mr Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, the Minister of State at the Presidency, has said it is the policy of government to expand the cultivation of rice and help reduce the importation of the commodity. He said...
Vietnamese Investors Target Rice Investment
Vietnamese rice investors and exporters drawn from about 14 companies are in the country to explore investment opportunities in rice production, processing, storage, marketing and distribution. The...