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Ministry of Food and Agriculture says it is looking to cut down imports of rice by 50 per cent as well as end the importation of tomato this year. Deputy Minister for the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, George Oduro said the government is working to cut the levels of food import significantly. He said “this year alone, our target ...

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund(IMF) has completed the last review of the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) for Ghana, signifying the conclusion of the four-year support programme. The Executive Board decision now allows for the disbursement of the last tranche of SDR132.84 million (about US$185.2 million) to Ghana. The board completed the seventh and eighth reviews on Wednesday March ...

The Ministry of Business Development is developing a national entrepreneurship policy to help address most of the difficulties faced by entrepreneurs. It has started the process by successfully initiating a draft document of the policy. The ministry, as part of its broader stakeholder engagement in the development of the policy, has met with stakeholders in the private sector, including the ...

The Ghana Real Estate Developers Association (GREDA) has asked for a review of the Home Finance Mortgage Act, 2008(Act 770) to help promote and develop the mortgage sector. An amendment, the association stated, should make it simple and unambiguous for easy interpretation and application for stakeholders who consist of the judiciary and law enforcements agencies. It should also seek to ...

Vodafone Ghana will on Monday 19 launch its 4G network service across major cities in Ghana. This is to help give superior internet service to Vodafone customers across Ghana. At a pre-launch media briefing in Accra on Tuesday, the Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone Ghana, Yolanda Cuba, said the technical team of the company have been able to fast track the ...

The Co-Chair of the Ghana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GHEITI), Dr Steve Manteaw, has called for critical interventions to halt abuse of revenues, particularly those accruing from the mining sector. “Even if we (PIAC) do not have the prosecutorial powers, we can resort to existing institutions of state that have it, so, the GHEITI does not just disclose but where ...

Professor Eric Yirenkyi Danquah, the Founding Director of the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), University of Ghana, has urged African governments to stop paying lip service to the development of agriculture. “We have paid lip services to the development of agriculture, our engine for growth and we are expecting different results doing the same thing over and over,” ...

The Public Interest and Accountability Committee, (PIAC) is raising a red flag on a decision by the government to use $3.8 million of funds from the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, GNPC for the cost of the litigation on Ghana’s maritime boundary dispute with Cote D’Ivoire. According to the PIAC, the cost of the entire dispute must be funded by the ...

The World Bank Country Director Henry Kerali is urging the government to fast track on-going structural reforms to help Ghana improve its exports and local consumption. According to Mr Kerali, this could help firmly stabilizes the local currency in the medium term and help deal with the perennial depreciation that hits the Ghana cedi every year. The cedi’s challenge for ...

Huawei Technologies Co. plans to roll out services from its first data center in South Africa in March, as the Chinese technology giant seeks to expand in Africa amid an escalating global row over the security of its equipment. The company is working with local partners to provide services from its first data-storage site to support cloud services in the ...