Vol 44 No 22 | GHANANIGERIA Gaius says goodbye 7th November 2003 The sacking of Jackson Gaius Obaseki, Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, on 3 November, is linked to the growing problems with well connected firm Sahara...
Vol 44 No 14 | GHANA Diplomacy central 11th July 2003 President Kufuor's government is reaping new benefits from its regional security role Accra has become the centre for the inchoate efforts to end Liberia's civil war after weeks of hosting inconclusive peace talks and now, planeloads of foreign military planners....
Vol 44 No 10 | GHANA Cotton tales 16th May 2003 The previous government's financial misdeeds are a boon to President John Kufuor Three former officials of ex-President Jerry Rawlings's National Democratic Congress (NDC) were gaoled on 28 April for their part in the Quality Grain scandal, involving a loan of...
Vol 44 No 10 | GHANA Musical chairs 16th May 2003 President John Agyekum Kufuor's late March cabinet changes brought in some younger ministers and deputy ministers, but were dismissed by the opposition National Democratic Congress as 'more recycle...
Vol 43 No 24 | GHANA No cheques 6th December 2002 President John Kufuor's last-minute rejection of the US$1 billion loan from the shadowy International Finance Consortium (not to be confused with the World Bank's International Finance Corporation) raises...
Vol 43 No 22 | GHANA Yes, Professor! 8th November 2002 Two academics go head to head for the opposition leadership Two Fanti law professors from Central Region, former Vice-President John Evans Atta Mills and former Finance Minister Kwesi Botchwey, are battling for nomination as the presidential candidate of...
Vol 43 No 17 | GHANA Boom boom 30th August 2002 It was a 'boom' speech, so called because it suggests the guns will boom again and return him to power. Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings has form: he...
Vol 43 No 16 | GHANA Too good 9th August 2002 The government has raised eyebrows by contracting a $1 billion, low-interest loan from a group calling itself the International Finance Consortium (not to be confused with the International...
Vol 43 No 15 | GHANA I'm Sam, fly me 26th July 2002 Many African airlines have boomed since Air Afrique collapsed, but not Ghana Airways Sam Jonah resigned as Chairman of Ghana Airways on 2 July after the cabinet failed to approve his preferred rescue plan for the airline and the removal of...
Vol 43 No 13 | GHANA Of rice and rings 28th June 2002 An interesting footnote to tales of corruption during the reign of President Jerry Rawlings is offered by the case of Juliet Cotton, convicted on 17 June by a...