Archive for May, 2011
Posted by Contributor on May 11, 2011 at 4:37 pm in News From Other Newspapers, Politics
The National Security advisor has hinted he will invite Herbert Mensah for questioning over allegations President John Mills has earmarked GHS 90 million the NDC presidential primaries. Rtd. Brigadier General Nunoo Mensah told Joy News the allegation is of paramount interest to his outfit. Herbert Mensah in an interview with Adom FM early this week [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 4:13 pm in Other Top Stories
Ian Gary Many resource-rich countries are notorious for secrecy, corruption and mismanagement of billions in revenues from oil, gas and mining operations. Ghana has long been a gold producer – and a donor darling for its recent track record of good governance – and in December became Africa’s newest oil producer. There are some encouraging [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 3:20 pm in Other Top Stories
By Moses Mozart Dzawu – Ghana’s economic growth accelerated to an annual 9.5 percent in the fourth quarter, bolstered by manufacturing and transportation, the Ghana Statistical Service said. Growth picked up from 8.7 percent in the previous three months, and brought expansion for the year to 7.7 percent, Grace Bediako, the head of the service, [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 3:16 pm in Other Top Stories
By Moses Mozart Dzawu – Ghana’s inflation slowed for the second consecutive month in April as the impact of a 30 percent increase in gasoline prices in January eased and the cedi stabilized. The inflation rate fell to 9 percent from 9.1 percent in March, Grace Bediako, a statistician at the Ghana Statistical Service, told [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 3:11 pm in News From Other Newspapers, Politics
By LIZ SIDOTI and JENNIFER AGIESTA, Associated Press Liz Sidoti And Jennifer Agiesta, Associated Press President Barack Obama’s approval rating has hit its highest point in two years — 60 percent — and more than half of Americans now say he deserves to be re-elected, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll taken after U.S. forces [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 3:09 pm in News From Other Newspapers, Politics
The Central Regional Communications Director of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Allotey Jacobs has advised former President Jerry John Rawlings to use the upcoming June 4th celebration to redeem his image because ‘time is catching up with him’. Mr Jacobs posited that the myth surrounding the ex-president has been broken and thus he [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 3:06 pm in Business
Kosmos Energy has agreed to pay a fine of $15 million to the Ghana Government for disclosing data on the Jubilee oil field without the government’s consent. That followed the peaceful resolution of a dispute between the Government of Ghana and Kosmos. The fine also includes the company’s spillage of low toxicity crude on the [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 3:05 pm in Business, Other Top Stories
The Managing Director of the Ghana Stock Exchange, Kofi Yamoah has justified the proposal for listed companies to have at least a hundred million shares. He says the decision is aimed at injecting some liquidity into trading of shares on the market especially because most investors prefer to hold on to their stocks rather than [...]
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