John Bewuah Edusei, the newly-appointed Vice President of Confederation for the Development of Poultry in Africa (CADA), has called for commitment to revive the local poultry industry and agricultural industry as a whole. Mr. Edusei cautioned that the country’s failure to transform the agriculture sector could result in hunger and...
Government is being urged to use the mid-year budget to review some of the revenue measures introduced in the 2023 budget. Country Managing Partner of Deloitte Ghana, Daniel Owusu, made this point at the 7th Ghana CEOs Summit and Expo held in Accra this week, so as to reduce the...
According to the Bank of Ghana's summary of economic and financial data, there was a marginal increase in gross reserves for April - rising from US$5.1billion in March to US$5.2billion at end of the year’s fourth month. Therefore, the nation's gross reserves are expected to experience growth following approval and...
Positive signs of recovery in the country's banking sector are being seen, Bank of Ghana (BoG) Governor Dr. Ernest Addison has said. During a press briefing at the 112th Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting this week, Governor Addison said despite the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme’s (DDEP) impact and overall difficult...
Director-General of the Internal Audit Agency, Dr. Eric Oduro Osae, has disclosed that government initiated processes to restructure the Internal Audit Agency and effectively prevent financial irregularities in the public sector. The move is part of measures to ensure judicious utilisation of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) US$3billion three-year extended...
Pakistan was established as a Muslim homeland in South Asia, but it also became home to a portion of Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, Ahmadis, and other religious and ethnic minorities. Since its inception, the minority question has been a persistent issue that has afflicted the nation. Pakistan is heterogeneous on...
To bridge the country’s yawning technology usage gap, government is committing US$2.6million to establish innovation centres across the country – seeking to equip about 3,000 Ghanaians with digital literacy skills by next year. The deputy Communications and Digitalisation Minister, Ama Pomaa Boateng, made this known during the 2023 World Telecommunication...
An assessment of last year’s Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) programme (2022) and its impact on smallholder farmers across the country by the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) has revealed that hikes in fertiliser price drove farmers to purchase inputs from neighbouring Togo. The findings showed that PFJ...
President of the Ghana Association of Bankers (GBA), John Awuah, predicts a seismic revolution in the country’s financial technology (fintech) ecosystem, whereby banks will metamorphose into huge fintechs. And, to him, that future is not going to be a very distant one. Mr. Awuah noted that the revolution is what...
The Money Summit 2023 opened yesterday in Accra with the Chief Executive Officer of the Business and Financial Times (B&FT), Dr. Godwin Acquaye, in his opening remarks saying the summit seeks to enhance investor confidence and bring together actors in the financial sector to provide solutions that will anchor...