Despite a very stable performance all year long, the cedi has returned to its perennial fits of weakness as demand of the greenback by corporates and traders begins to rise ahead of the Christmas festivities.
The cedi, over the past month, has struggled to keep up with the dollar with...
When I first heard about the community of Old Fadama in Accra, Ghana, I recognised something. A Ghanaian Catholic sister who visited the green market weekly in that neighbourhood told me about it. She worried about a community of vulnerable migrant women known as “head porters” or kayayei, who...
The Nation Development Planning Commission (NDPC) has launched a long-term development framework for Ghana, dubbed the Ghana@100 Long-term Development Framework. The main aim of the Ghana@100 Long-term Development Framework is to have a democratic, inclusive self-reliant and developed country by the time Ghana is 100 in the year 2057.
At...
The major goal of every insurance company is to be in a state of readiness to meet its liabilities in respect of the uncertain events insured. However, the events which have taken place in the past few months are clear indications that perhaps a number of insurance companies were...
meqasa.com, the real estate web portal, is set to organise the nation’s first-ever online real estate housing fair. Starting from June 15, 2020 to June 28, 2020, this housing fair will bring together Ghana’s biggest property developers with the biggest property discounts ever seen.
The event begins at 8 am...
The Ghana TVET Coalition recently held its maiden national general conference with the aim of consolidating its efforts at coalition building to embark on the objective of complementing government effort at the implementation of a successful delivery of free, quality and accessible TVET in Ghana.
Over 30 participants drawn from...
The price of imported fresh tomatoes has sharply increased, as traders now have to travel up north to neighbouring Burkina Faso to buy fresh tomatoes for sale on the local market.
This perennial shortage of the vegetable and reliance on Ghana’s northern neighbour to meet local demand for the commodity...
The members of the Council of State have called for deeper collaboration between the Council and Parliament to foster development.
They made the call after meeting the Speaker of Parliament, Alban S. K. Bagbin, and leadership of the House.
The meeting also discussed a number of issues of national interest, including...
The Foundation for Security and Development in Africa (FOSDA), in collaboration with 20 other Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), has called for the automation of Domestic Revenue Mobilization (DRM) systems at the district level.
This is to contribute to national efforts at causing district assemblies to collect more revenues to meet...
Many a time, people tend to fault government on many of its decisions due to propaganda rather than appreciating its genuineness to create as much as possible an equitable advantage to the entire populace. Who knows, most decisions may be for the good of the country after all; which...