Housing Is a Tool for Economic Development - Mohammed
What is mortgage financing all about? I will say it in a lay man's language: it is a situation where a mortgage institution, financial institution or bank gives somebody who is interested in ...
View ArticleDefining Your Financial Goals for 2012
Most businesses are created, at least in part, to make money, and financial achievement is an important way to measure the success of a business. An important part of the process is constantly ...
View ArticleInflation Rate Was 8.7 Percent in January
The Annual Inflation as recorded by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) stood at 8.7% in January 2012, up from 8.6% in December 2011. Movements in inflation rates within the last 12 months were ...
View ArticleSamra Moves in Line With Companies Act
To meet the terms of the new Companies Act, to address legislative and industry-related challenges and to commit to King I and II guidelines on corporate governance in terms of reporting, ...
View ArticleNation to Have Transfer Pricing Rules By End of March
New rules for regulating the pricing of goods and services transacted between associated enterprises, particularly Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) and their subsidiaries or branches, in Ghana are ...
View ArticleOverregulation, Policy See-Saws Hurt Economy
THIS week we woke up to a new list by Zimra of products that are now subject to 25% surtax. This replaces a previous one not so long ago which made the products subject to the same tax. The previous ...
View ArticleThe gun settles disputes in the new Libya
In towns and cities across Libya, celebrations took place marking the first anniversary of the uprising that led to the overthrow of Col Gaddafi, but hundreds of former rebels are still armed and ...
View ArticleMoses ready to commit to Nigeria
part of the Super Eagles squad to face Rwanda in a qualifier for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations. The 21-year-old was born in Nigeria but moved to the UK when he was 11 and played for England at ...
View ArticleWorld Bank opens nomination process for top job
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank on Friday launched the nomination process to select a new president to succeed Robert Zoellick when he steps down in June, inviting names from any of its 187 ...
View ArticleIranian naval ships enter Mediterranean via Suez
ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Two Iranian naval ships have sailed through Egypt's Suez Canal into the Mediterranean, in a move likely to be keenly watched by ...
View ArticleEgypt trial on US democracy activists set for February 26
CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court will start the trial on February 26 of activists from mostly American civil society groups accused of working illegally in Egypt, in a case which has strained ...
View ArticleUS arrests suspect in Capitol suicide attack plot
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An illegal immigrant from Morocco was arrested near the U.S. Capitol on Friday after an undercover investigation into an alleged plot to carry out a suicide attack on the ...
View ArticleEU, Carter Center slam Congo govt over banned march
KINSHASA (Reuters) - The European Union and the U.S.-based Carter Center criticised Congo's government on Friday for banning a protest planned by the Catholic Church as tensions following a ...
View ArticleSenegal police battle anti-Wade protesters
DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegalese police sealed off a main square in the capital Dakar and fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators who gathered on Friday in protest against incumbent President Abdoulaye ...
View ArticleHis Majesty sends cable to the President of Gambia
Manama, Feb. 18 (BNA) -- His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa sent a cable of congratulation to the President of Gambia Yahya Jammeh, marking his country's Independence day. His ...
View ArticleEU seeks to normalise ties with Zanu-PF
Another two Cabinet ministers answering to President Robert Mugabe also can travel to Europe to help in negotiations to "re-engage" on relations between Zimbabwe and the 27 nations in the ...
View ArticleRiots erupt in Senegal's holy city of Tivaouane
Violence broke out late on Friday in Tivaouane, the seat of Senegal's largest Islamic brotherhood, the Tidiane, where the mayor's office was burned down after police reportedly hurled ...
View ArticleExplosion rocks military barracks in northern Nigeria
A blast rocked an area near a military barracks in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna on Tuesday but the cause of the explosion and number of casualties were not immediately clear, an official ...
View ArticleGhana president orders arrest of ruling party’s sponsor over graft
Photo/FILE Ghana's President John Atta Mills has had to sanction the arrest of key ruling party financier Alfred Agbesi Woyome after his indictment for ...
View ArticleBloc backs former South African minister for AU top post
Southern African countries meeting today in Cape Town have vowed to lobby hard for South Africa's Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to be elected new African Union chief in fresh polls after a recent ...
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