At least it will cost a Member of Parliament US$86,000 to secure a party’s primary nomination to compete in parliamentary elections in the country, a study has found.
The research, conducted by the Westminster Foundation for Democracy and the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), shows the cost of running for...
Government, through the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA), has introduced a number of intervention programmes to sustain the Ekumfi Pineapple Processing Factory (EPPF), among other sensitive industries.
In an interview with Eric Amoako Twum, the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of GEPA on Wednesday, he said the Authority has provided five...
The Ghana Interbank Payments and Settlement Systems (GhIPSS) has said its platform that would ensure cross-network mobile money transactions would be ready by end of February and could be launched in March.
GhIPSS had already missed a November 2017 deadline to deliver the platform, which will allow mobile money users...
Government’s fight against illegal mining has cut out supply to local jewellers whose main source of raw material is small-scale miners, pushing some to the brink of collapse.
If government can help them find other sources of supply - since no one sets eyes on gold produced by large-scale multinationals...
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The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) has called on government to address delays to input distribution, the poor quality of inputs, as well as bureaucracies holding back smooth implementation of the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) initiative.
According to the PFAG, reports from its regional monitoring identified loopholes...
The minority in parliament has raised concerns about composition of the 13-member board of the Bank of Ghana, saying: “one of them runs a pension scheme and still plays other roles,” suggesting a conflict of interest situation.
Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu threatened court action over the issue at a...
There is a need to establish new legislations for the downstream petroleum sector, in order to realise government’s vision of making Ghana a hub for refined petroleum products in the West African sub-region, Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko has advised.
According to the minister, who was speaking at the 2018 Downstream...
Total petroleum receipts - the sum of earnings from liftings and other petroleum proceeds from the Jubilee and TEN oil fields - stood at US$362.58million as at September 2017, data from the Ghana National Petroleum Commission (GNPC) have shown.
The figure, which indicates an astronomical surge from the US$172.91million realised...
The state in 2017 lost some GH¢868m to shady petroleum service providers who dump products meant for export back onto the Ghanaian market.
Due to tax waivers on some petroleum products meant for export, crooked service providers find an incentive in selling such products on the local market - which...