A renegotiated agreement to increase Ghanaian ownership through the Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF), legally binding local participation targets and creation of a statutory Mining Community Development Fund is at the heart of a petition urging the Council of State to advise government against denying Gold Fields Ghana Limited's Tarkwa mining lease renewal.
One of my favourite things about the FIFA World Cup has nothing to do with goals, tactics or VAR.
On the surface, two stories dominated Ghana's economic news cycle this week, and they appear to have nothing to do with each other.
There is a force at work behind every enduring achievement.
Your Excellency, Every rainy season, Accra drowns. Homes fill with water. Businesses lose stock. Roads become rivers. Lives are lost.
Dear future nation, By the time you read this letter, it will sound old and probably sad. But that is alright because you smiling now, having battled the odds and triumphed. You have finally become great and strong, a nation of the free and glittering like the star that you are.
Ghana's gold sector recorded a notable policy development with the introduction of GoldBod Jewellery Tablets — a retail product that, for the first time, has made investment-grade physical gold accessible to the ordinary Ghanaian saver in denominations as low as one gram.
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