The minority in Parliament has accused the government of collapsing the agriculture sector through poor policies and excessive importation of food products. It again attacked the agriculture programmes outlined in the 2016 manifesto of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) as being unrealistic and unattainable. At a press conference in Parliament last Tuesday, the Minority Spokesperson … Read more
For more than two decades, Russia has been struggling to regain its Soviet-era economic influence, but such efforts have hit stumbling blocks which policy experts and Russian authorities themselves admittedly attributed to inadequate knowledge of investment and economic possibilities in Africa. Quite recently, Keir Giles, an associate fellow (on the Russia and Eurasia Program) at … Read more
A former Information Minister Stephen Asamoah Boateng has stated that he never asked Ghanaians to eat ‘konkonte’ if they couldn’t afford to buy other food products. The reports first emanated in 2008 after fuel price increases and increase in food products on the market under the erstwhile Kufuor administration. Asabee as he is popularly referred … Read more
The Central Bank of Nigeria’s portion of the foreign reserves fell to $19.44 billion as non-oil exports fell by over 43 percent in the second quarter of 2016. “Provisional data showed that total non-oil export earnings, at US$576.97 million, fell by 43.2 per cent, below the level in the preceding quarter,” CBN said in its … Read more