When the Auditor General's (AG) statutory report on the spend by Ministries, Municipalities and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in 2016 is officially presented to Ghana's Parliament in February, 2018, it will come with the usual litany of unapproved payments, contracts backdated to cover work shoddily done, late and overpriced, good...
On the back of the successful ruling in September 2017 at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Seas to define Ghana's maritime boundaries with the Ivory Coast, more news.
Subject to Parliamentary approval, this is virtually assured (the government has a majority in the House, the Legislature generally...
When Parliament resumes sitting in Ghana's teeming capital on Tuesday January 23rd, 2018, the 275 legislators, drawn from 10 regions - particularly because we are a deeply partisan nation, in the eye, again of an economic windfall - will address a number of issues that citizens and investors, domestic...
Headline news announced by the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta in his budget statement, is that Ghana expects to earn some $670 million from exporting crude oil in 2018 from its 3 major producing fields. There may well be other tangible benefits.
The 2018 budget was themed 'Putting Ghana back...
Never mind what the hard skills of the apparent qualifications are. The real requirement for the successful applicant who bags the advertised role for Government Statistician, will be his/the ability to count, backwards.
Depending on who is guesstimating, Ghana has a population of 28 million people, give or take. English...
The Doing Business (DB) survey is an annual report issued by the World Bank Group (WBG). It ranks economies across the world on the time, ease and procedures required for a small to middle size domestic business, in the most populous city, to complete critical transactions.
The first DB survey...
The announcement made last week by the Minister of Energy, Mr. Boakye Agyarko, of the impending allocation of 9 new offshore oil blocks, quite rightly made the news. The Minister also stated, that in anticipation of improved production and revenue from oil, the government will more than double the...
When Pablo Escobar held sway in Colombia as the eminence grise of the cocaine trade, he would apparently offer anyone who stood in his way. 'Silver or lead - take a bribe or take a bullet'. A compelling business proposition, to anyone, then or now, presented with these hypnotic...
On Monday, February 19, 2018 when this column will be published, the Petroleum Commission (PC), regulator of the upstream industry and Ghana's lucrative petroleum resources will host a meeting in Accra themed 'Local Content Procurement Conference.'
There are more than 500 companies including joint ventures registered with the PC, along...
The Inspector General of Police, David Asante-Apeatu, has set his stall out with the sort of bold claim that could beget the question of 'what has this man who served his first command post in Tumu in the Upper West region, served as a Director with Interpol Headquarters and...