She also claims to have travelled to Kuwait with former Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Yaw Osafo-Maafo to negotiate a $16...
Vol 46 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
The Akyems will provide three challengers for the succession - Finance Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo Foreign Minister Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Interior Minister Hackman Owusu-Agyeman...
Finance and Economic Planning Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo - widely expected to keep his job if Kufuor wins - tries to sell off non-performing state-owned enterprises an endeavour dogged by allegations of corruption for a decade...
The overwhelming majority of petroleum consumed (98 per cent) is imported and with international oil prices some US$10 per barrel above Finance Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo's budget projections the government is currently subsidising motorists to the tune of $10 million a month...
Breaking a deafening government silence since a controversial Chinese loan agreement was rushed through parliament at the end of its last sitting in April the embattled Finance and Economic Planning Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo insists he will pursue 'to its logical conclusion' a credit of US$300 mn...
Independence essential Additional delays rose when Finance Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo tried to impose on the Commission a government procurement committee subject to the usual rules about international competitive tendering...
Finance Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo at the governing New Patriotic Party's pre-election congress at Cape Coast in December claimed that the song vindicated his party...
Economic Planning has reverted to its old home at the Finance Ministry under Yaw Osafo-Maafo and Senior Minister J...
Kufuor may worry how the Consortium managed to engage such economic brains as long-time commercial banker and now Finance Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo; ex-International Monetary Fund policy-maker and now Governor of the Bank of Ghana Paul Acquah; and policy overseer and party intellectual Joseph Henry Mensah (who investigated the notorious Drevici deals under President Kwame Nkrumah)...
Finance Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo has admitted that the government may be forced to raise the price of petroleum products if international oil prices stay high...