Archive for September, 2011
Posted by Contributor on September 26, 2011 at 3:40 pm in Business, Other Top Stories
BY NEW BUSINESS ETHIOPIA REPORTER Women still face legal and regulatory hurdles to fully participating in national economies, says a new report from the World Bank and IFC released today (September 26, 2011). While 36 economies reduced legal differences between men and women, 103 out of 141 economies studied still impose legal differences on the [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 3:39 pm in Business
The Revenue Protection Information Bureau (RPIB), has commended the government for initiating the Ghana Cotton Revival Project, describing it as “timely and a blessing to cotton farmers”. The RPIB said the project would revamp the cotton industry in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions where most farmers depends on the ‘White Gold’. Mr [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 3:36 pm in Other Top Stories
Olusegun Obasanjo, former President of Nigeria and member of the Africa Progress Panel, will today call upon African leaders to accelerate regional integration to boost economic and social development on the continent. Addressing African heads of state and international business leaders at the New York Stock Exchange, Mr Obasanjo will say, “Africa needs greater integration [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 3:35 pm in Business, Other Top Stories
Global leaders, including several former presidents, CEOs of the world’s largest Fortune 500 food and agriculture companies, World Food Prize laureates and international policy experts, will come together October 12-14, 2011, for the 25th Anniversary World Food Prize Norman E. Borlaug International Symposium to address the world’s current food crises and future needs in feeding [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 3:33 pm in Feature Articles, Other Top Stories
Feature Article, by Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro. I was shocked and very angry to hear the speech of the President of Ghana at the 66th session of the UN General assembly the other day! Don’t get me wrong. This is no criticism the NPP can even pretend to take advantage of because, it is [...]
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Posted by Contributor on September 20, 2011 at 3:41 pm in Local News, News From Other Newspapers
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), who is the head of the Ghana Police Service, could find himself in jail very soon if he does not take steps to purge himself of… …a contempt application brought against him by 24 police officers who were arbitrarily dismissed from the service. On April 13, 2007, the police [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 12:31 pm in Business, Other Top Stories
Norpalm Board Chairman Peter Schoenberg presents Mr Imoro Morrison with his prize for emerging Norpalm Best Farmer for 2010. Norpalm Ghana Limited, (NPL) has rewarded 29 individual and shareholder farmers for their hard work which has contributed immensely to the growth of the company. The awards, which is in its 9th edition serves as a [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 12:23 pm in Business, Other Top Stories
Ghana’s economy has been in focus since the country began commercial oil production on December 15, 2010, and different predictions for growth are being made. Seen as the fastest growing in the world, the World Bank in January this year, projected that the country’s economic growth rate will be around 13.4% in 2011. The International [...]
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