News :: Ghana

Greed will be the ruin of us

05:12 GMT 25th April 2012

'Most of our leaders are highly educated but desire for personal enrichment has rendered them more illiterate than the unlettered'

Interest Rate 'Overkill'

04:38 GMT 9th March 2012

Business leaders are concerned that banks are refusing to lower their interest rates despite key macro-economic indicators stabilising. By Mustapha Samed, Accra

AG Sacking Deepens Row

04:34 GMT 9th March 2012

The furore surrounding claims of fraud by a leading member of government has set the cat among the pigeons for both parties as they prepare for this year's election campaign. By Justice Lee Adoboe

Views

02:50 GMT 9th March 2012

"The ICC has shown that no longer can politicians try to justify carnage

Telecoms company Eaton Towers has secured $150m of private equity funding to expand its tower-sharing business in Africa, which is enabling mobile operators to roll out services to remote areas more cheaply.

Accra

12:35 GMT 28th September 2011

Ghana's parliament on has approved a $3bn Chinese loan and the country's finance minister said the west African nation was in talks with China's Exim bank for loans worth another $6bn, which are part of a broader Chinese package.

Accra

02:13 GMT 18th July 2011

Ghana will this month allow mobile phone customers to switch network operators but keep their numbers, a move that will increase competition and quality of service, an industry regulator said in June.

Views

04:12 GMT 14th June 2011

'Museveni should know protests are a key part of democratic society'

Accra

03:58 GMT 25th March 2011

Ghana has increased its minimum daily wage by 20 per cent with effect from February 15, a trade union official said, citing an agreement reached by a committee representing employers, the government and labour groups.

ACCRA

11:57 GMT 15th February 2011

Ghana's stock exchange expects at least four new listings this year, including a local float by oil group Tullow, and predicts that inflows of new pension funds will boost trading volumes.

Gbagbo's fall from grace

03:47 GMT 15th February 2011

'Gbagbo has violated his socialist tenets by questioning the nationality of half his compatriots'

Following Nkrumah

12:45 GMT 6th January 2011

As a young photographer, James Barnor had Ghana's future president frequently in the frame, as a recent exhibition of his work shows, writes Angela Cobbinah

Winning formula

11:56 GMT 6th January 2011

Sam Avornyo, an ICT eacher at the Maabang Senior High School in Ghana, won the Best Practice Award at the Worldwide Innovative Education Forum held in Cape Town, South Africa, in October.