World Stocks, Commodities Climb As Economic Confidence Lifts
World markets had a swagger about them on Tuesday as upbeat economic data and signs of a revival in inflation ...
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My 170 Economic Claims Yet To Be Challenged
New Patriotic Party (NPP) Vice-Presidential candidate Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has once again demanded that government responds to his 170 economic claims contained in ...
Russia Is Planning For Low Oil Prices
Russia is betting oil prices will stay low for a long time. President Vladimir Putin's government has just set a ...
How Pound’s Falling Value Affects You
The tumbling value of the pound against the US dollar, euro and other currencies since Britain voted for Brexit could ...
Why Are Nigerians Begging Okonjo-Iweala To Help Buhari?
It is no longer news that we are in a recession. Nigerians are groaning under the weight of a dying ...
Younger Than Nigeria But Beating the Recession
In our series of letters from African journalists, Didi Akinyelure, the BBC World News Komla Dumor Award Winner, looks at ...
IMF Approves Ghana’s Third Review
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) board has approved Ghana’s third review under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF). The nod was ...
GDP Growth Slumps To 2.5%
The country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the second quarter has plummeted to 2.5 percent from the 4.8 percent recorded ...
FPSO Shutdown Hurts Ghana’s Economic Growth
The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has reveled the shutdown of the Kwame Nkrumah FPSO in the second quarter of 2016 ...
ACEP Welcomes Gov’t’s Petroleum Contracts Renegotiation
The Africa Center for Energy Policy (ACEP) has welcomed government’s decision to renegotiate the Sankofa-Gye Nyame Project agreement. Deputy Minister ...
Ghana Risks Entering Into Recession
Ghana’s economy faces a recession if steps are not taken to diversify its productive sectors, the Head of the Economics ...
Moody’s Changes Ghana’s Creditworthiness From Negative To Stable
Moody’s Investors Service (“Moody’s”) has affirmed the Government of Ghana’s issuer and senior unsecured rating at B3 and changed the ...
Government Charged To Spend Oil Revenues Responsibly At All Times
Government has been charged to spend oil revenues responsibly at all times to enable it to mitigate the negative impact ...
NPP Waiting For NDC’s Response To 170 Facts Presented By Dr. Bawumia
The Office of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has noted the discussions on his Public Lecture on the theme – “The State ...
Ghana Earned Over $3bn From Petroleum Revenue
Ghana earned $3.208 billion from petroleum revenue for the production of 161.7 million barrels of crude oil between 2011 and ...
Kwesi Pratt Unmasked 1
Building a nation is a task that transcends individual interests or selfish desires of a group of indivisuals. A nation ...
Mahama’s Foundation Is So Strong It Cannot Crumble
Campaign coordinator of the National Democratic Congress says President John Mahama's foundation which took almost eight years to lay is ...
Why Relative Size Doesn’t Matter To Nigeria’s Economy
Nigeria is used to making big headlines—it has Africa’s biggest population, Africa’s biggest film industry, and Africa’s biggest bravado. But ...
Roads Ministry Reacts To Bawumia’s Analysis On Roads
The Roads and Highway ministry has taken a swipe at the NPP's running mate Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia over what it ...
‘When Bawumia Speaks, NDC Shivers’
Speeches by the vice-presidential nominee of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) always send “shivers within the NDC”, Sydney Casely-Hayford, a ...