President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday said the new monetary policy of his administration has contributed to the minimisation of the influence of money in politics. Despite the poor implementation of the policy, Mr Buhari said the redesign of the high denominations of the naira is a positive departure from the past and represents a bold legacy…
President Muhammadu Buhari has addressed Nigerians on the issue of currency swap policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, which has hindered economic activities in the country due to scarcity of the old and new notes. The President directed that the old naira notes, ranging from the N200, N500 to N1000 remain legal tender…
A project aimed at boosting food production and addressing key constraints in the agriculture value chain in Northern Ghana has been launched in Tamale. Dubbed “Savannah Agricultural Value Chain Development Programme (SADEP), the project is expected to contribute to the government’s industrialisation agenda, support Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ), Rearing for Food and Jobs…
A new report by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has revealed that four out of every five public sector employees earn less than GH₵3000 a month. Out of the 688,000 persons employed by the government, 533,179 of them earn less than GH₵3000. This represents 80 per cent of the total workforce. The new survey titled the…
Following intensive hearings before the National Assembly’s Finance and Public Accounts Committee (FPAC) and audit exercises into the finances of area councils and municipalities across the country, the Gambia government has decided to further probe the alleged improprieties. Speaking during the breakfast programme – ‘Coffee Time with Peter Gomez’ – on West Coast Radio Wednesday,…
MONROVIA – There seems to be probable reasons to give credence to the insinuation making the rounds that the 2022 National Housing and Population Census may have ended into a limbo as there has not been any tangible information from Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services (LISGIS) or any organ of government about the outcome…
… Under Mr. Weah’s leadership, the country dropped places from 175 in 2017 to 178 in 2021 on the Human Development Index. The Global Human Development Index (HDI) published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is a measure for assessing long-term progress in three basic dimensions of human development: a long and healthy…
