As part of measures to provide market for tonnes of food expected from the Planting for Food and Jobs programme, the Ministry of Food and Agriculture is to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the ministries of Education, Health and Gender, Children and Social Protection. The MoU will enable the government to use its … Read more
Government has announced plans to construct a warehouse in each of the 216 districts in the country to support the ‘Planting for Food and Jobs campaign’ which was launched at Goaso in the Brong Ahafo region on Wednesday. According to the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the warehouses would be crucial in helping to mitigate … Read more
The government will, by April this year, launch an audacious campaign to turn farmlands and backyards into a huge food basket that is expected to cut down the country’s food import bill drastically. Modelled on the highly successful “Operation Feed Yourself (OFY)” programme of the 1970s, the initiative, dubbed: “Planting for food and jobs”, is … Read more
Dangote Rice, a subsidiary of Dangote Group, is set to launch in Sokoto state its multi-million naira 25,000 hectares of rice outgrower scheme with a prospect of hundreds of thousands of employment opportunities for the rural communities inhabitants. President of the Group, Aliko Dangote disclosed at the weekend that the Company will on Wednesday, flag … Read more
Ghana’s gross domestic product (GDP), notwithstanding the discovery of oil, has only increased from $28.5 billion in 2008 to a projected $40 billion in 2016, a 40 percent increase in eight years, according to the New Patriotic Party (NPP). In its analysis of the country’s performance under President John Dramani Mahama, the NPP stated: “In … Read more
New Patriotic Party (NPP) Vice-Presidential candidate Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has once again demanded that government responds to his 170 economic claims contained in a lecture where he denounced the Mahama administration as incompetent. His reminder comes after President John Mahama also repeated his challenge to debate the main opposition leader Akufo-Addo whom he has accused of peddling lies about the … Read more
The Office of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has noted the discussions on his Public Lecture on the theme – “The State of the Ghanaian Economy – a foundation of Concrete or Straw” – and continues to thank the General Public for their support before, during and after the event. Though the government has till date not … Read more