Editorials/Opinion

Ghana’s economy for a long time has depended on commodities, particularly cocoa and gold, and more recently on oil since commercial production began in December 2010, however, the country’s economy has been hit by the volatilities in global…

The Parliament of Ghana has been cited for blasphemy for the contempt proceedings they held against Prof Alex Dodoo and Abubakar Ahmed (aka Blakk Rasta), at the end of which the speaker, the Right Honourable Doe Adjaho, pronounced them…

This week sees the final negotiations on the Sustainable Development Goals. Unless there are last minute upsets – less and less likely following a mostly successful financing conference, but always possible – two years of hard work…

Reasons why China rejected an application for loan by the Ministry of Finance to fund the ‘Gang of Four’ projects has until now been shrouded in secrecy. The finance minister, Hon Seth Tekper, has said the loan was declined because the…

Railways projects in Ghana are pet projects of successive governments – the frequency with which governments over time dust up and announce rehabilitation of the same projects is instructive. It appears government after government for…

Greek economist, author and poet, Isidoros Karderinis writes for ghanabusinessnews.com on the financial crisis facing his country. It is exactly five years since Greece joined the European Support Mechanism with the close cooperation of…

Joe Hale of the NICS has drawn our attention to a response to a news report on a Ghana court ruling asking the organization to refund $800,000 in taxes to Ghana. The response was published on the organization's website and we are…

The chances of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) winning the 2016 presidential elections has been given a massive boost after it unveiled its most ambitious policy initiative since assuming the reins of government in January…

… why the buck stops with the President of the Republic “Lee Kuan Yew personally shaped Singapore in a way that few people have any nation. His place in history is assured, as a leader and as one of the modern world's foremost…

The people of Ghana have threatened to impose economic sanctions ‘which will totally devastate the American economy,’ unless the USA backtracks on their recent supreme court ruling that legalised gay marriage. This unusual warning was…