Archive for October, 2009
Posted by Contributor on October 30, 2009 at 10:17 am in Business, Financial Institutions
GNA – The University of Ghana Co-operative Credit Union Limited is to operate as a quasi-bank, to provide various financial services including educational and Christmas savings with higher returns to members. A three-year strategic plan, detailing the various processes and guidelines leading to its take-off, has been developed and management is tasked to work towards [...]
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Posted by GNA on at 10:15 am in Business, Other Business Stories
GNA – Lack of access to finance in agricultural development and agribusiness is affecting agricultural innovation systems in Africa. Ms Riikka Rajalahti of the Agriculture and Rural Development at the World Bank said Ghana was particularly faced with financing difficulties and called for well organised small holder farmer groups to facilitate access to finance in [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 10:12 am in Business, Financial Institutions
GNA – The Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo has advised Accountants of the Public Service to be guided by the lessons of the ongoing Ghana@50 Commission when their superiors pressurized them to bend the rules to suit them. He said he as a Minister, respected Public Officials, who could insist on their principles and [...]
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Posted by GNA on at 10:11 am in Other Top Stories
GNA – Benefits of the new three-tier pension scheme would be an important source to meet the financial needs of workers after retirement, Mr Daniel Aidoo Mensah, member of the Presidential Commission on Pensions said in Accra on Thursday. He said it was therefore essential that a system of prudential supervision and regulation was instituted [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 10:10 am in Business, Mining
by; Christopher Helman, Its much-touted Qatar LNG project doesn’t seem to be enough to raise overall production. Does the answer lie in Ghana or Iraq? Financially, ExxonMobil’s third quarter was in line with its Big Oil peers, but the takeaway from its report is that productionwise, the world’s largest energy company is running flat out [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 10:00 am in Top Story
Newmont Mining Corp sees projects in Ghana and Peru as leading priorities to develop, Chief Executive Officer Richard O’Brien said on Thursday. “I tell you that Akyem and Conga obviously are the two that rank at the very top for us,” he told Wall Street analysts during a discussion of Newmont’s third-quarter results.
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Posted by Contributor on at 9:55 am in Other Top Stories
The former Managing Director of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), Dr. K. K. Sarpong, has descended heavily on the NDC Member of Parliament for Ashiaman, Hon. Alfred Agbesi, describing him as shallow-minded and someone who lacks the aptitude to address issues on TOR. Speaking on “Kokrokoo”, PEACEFM’s flagship programme in an exclusive interview with Kwami [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 9:52 am in Other Top Stories, Politics
The Chief Executive Officer of the defunct Ghana@50 Secretariat, Dr. Charles Yves Wereko-Brobbey, believes the NPP lost the 2008 General Elections due to the manner the party elected its flagbearer. According to the former CEO of the Volta River Authority (VRA), though there was a large pool of contestants, 17 potential candidates, the party could [...]
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