49 Year old emerge best farmer in Talensi District

ABK - Dec 2, 2017

Mr Salifu Sandow, a 49 year old man from Seog in the Talensi District in the Upper East Region emerged the best District farmer...

Kenyan maize farmers protest poor prices as citizens enjoy subsidy

News Ghana - Sep 29, 2017

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As Kenyans enjoy cheaper maize flour following a government subsidy, farmers are crying foul as prices of the grain, which they are currently harvesting,...

Stakeholders Form Watchdog Group To Monitor Smuggling Of Fertilizer

ABK - May 3, 2017

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Mrs Victoria Adongo, the Programmes Coordinator of the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana, has urged farmers in the northern parts of the country to...

PFAG Ask Government To Equip Extension Officers

ABK - Apr 21, 2017

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The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) has called on government to equip the already existing extension officers with logistics to work with rather...

Subsidy car boom to slow

News Ghana - Jan 11, 2017

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Models perform at an auto show in Qingdao, Shandong province. China's passenger vehicle sales last year saw their fastest growth since 2013, but...

SHS Heads to Answer Queries Over Subsidy Payments Holdback

News Ghana - Jul 21, 2016

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The Ghana Education Service has said it will sanction heads of the various senior high schools whose lackadaisical attitudes have resulted in a delay...

Association of farmers cheers expanded fertilizer appropriation

News Ghana - Jul 15, 2016

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Alhaji Mohammed Abdul Rahman, the National President, said they found the upward adjustment of the subsidy from 21 to 26 per cent significant and...

Government Will Reduce Poverty Among Smallholder Farmers

News Ghana - Jun 6, 2016

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According to MOFA, it has recently embarked on a number of initiatives to facilitate access to finance by small-holder farmers to increase their productivity. These...

Nigerians asked to rejoice over subvention removal

News Ghana - May 13, 2016

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Against the backdrop of threats from Senators and certain groups arising from the government's decision to remove petrol subsidy, Civil Society Organisations including Stand...

Govt must subsidies organic fertilizer – ACARP

News Ghana - Feb 10, 2016

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Dr Richard Amponsah says apart from the ecological benefits of using organic compost in agriculture production, the sector also holds tremendous economic benefits for...

Mahama assures fishermen of premix subsidy

News Ghana - Oct 15, 2015

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Government had stopped subsidizing petroleum products through the introduction of deregulation policy which allows petroleum companies to sell the product without any government interference. However,...

Sudan’s Wheat Imports Subsidy Removed

Business Day Ghana - Sep 23, 2015

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Sudan has scrapped a special U.S. dollar/Sudanese pound exchange rate used for wheat imports, effectively removing a subsidy, the finance ministry said on Monday. The...

Motion Seeking Removal of Fuel Subsidy Rejected

dailytimes.com.ng - May 5, 2015

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Members of the House of Representatives, on Tuesday condemns the motion seeking to remove fuel subsidy. This is following a motion promoted by Rep Sunday...

Thailand To Fund Subsidy To Support Rubber Growers

oxfordbusinessgroup.com - Dec 22, 2014

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The world?s largest rubber producer has seen earnings and output plunge this year, with Thailand?s government stepping in to fund subsidy and buying programmes...

Current Fertilizer Subsidy Programme Creating Smuggling

Ghana News Agency - Aug 18, 2014

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Mr Henri Wientjes, the Chief Executive Officer of African Tiger Holdings Limited, has said the best way to promote competitive agriculture in the country...

Govt Committed To Settling Debt

News Ghana - Jun 26, 2014

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President John Mahama has instructed the Ministry of Finance to settle the government?s share of the 2013 fertilizer subsidies? debt with companies that brought...

ANEEJ Cautions Jonathan On Oil Subsidy Theft

247ureports.com - Jun 24, 2014

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AN ADDRESS BY THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF AFRICA NETWORK FOR ENVIRONEMENT AND ECONOMIC JUSTIC (ANEEJ) REV. DAVID UGOLOR AT A WORLD PRESS CONFERENCE IN...

Government must ensure of the turnaround maintenance of all the refineries

dailytimes.com.ng - Apr 18, 2014

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The General Secretary of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), Mr. Bayo Olowoshile, has urged President Goodluck Jonathan not to...

EFCC recovers N4.3bn petroleum subsidy scammers

dailytimes.com.ng - Apr 17, 2014

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The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, has disclosed that the anti-graft agency has so far recovered...

Kerosene Subsidy, A Big Scam Operated By A Cabal-Sanusi Lamido

247ureports.com - Mar 12, 2014

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Suspended Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Lamido Sanusi has again stirred the hornet?s nest as he declared yesterday that kerosine subsidy is a...

NNPC betrayed over N1.7trn Kerosene subsidy

247ureports.com - Mar 7, 2014

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Teddy Oscar, Abuja The Budget Office on Wednesday denied the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) when the office told the House of Representatives? Committee on Petroleum Resources...

PPPRA Says Nigeria Spends Over N500bn On Kerosene Subsidy

247ureports.com - Feb 19, 2014

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Teddy Oscar, Abuja The Petroleum Product Pricing and Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) on Wednesday revealed that about $34 million (over N500 billion) was spent to subsidise the importation of...

The Kerosene Subsidy Scam and the Boko Haram Massacres

247ureports.com - Feb 17, 2014

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? By Dr. Peregrino Brimah Boko Haram has struck once again, again after not so long when they had struck again. In this latest strike,...

Alison-Madueke N634 Kerosene Subsidy Probe Postponed

247ureports.com - Feb 10, 2014

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Teddy Oscar, Abuja The inability of the minister of petroleum resources, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke, to appear before a scheduled investigation by the House of Representatives...

Smuggling remains greatest threat to official cocoa exports in 2014 and beyond

News Ghana - Jan 20, 2014

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The volume of cocoa export from Ghana is said to reduce by the end of 2014, according to an analysis report by the Economist...

Government Subsidy Starts Effects From Today

Joseph Nana Yaw Cobbina - Nov 19, 2013

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The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has reprogrammed its systems and that the implementation of the 25% subsidy in the electricity tariffs by government...

Ultimatum To FGN To Produce Our N500bn SURE-P Fuel Subsidy Savings

247ureports.com - Nov 7, 2013

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? By Dr. Peregrino Brimah #OduahGate is a joke compared to this. The unfolding story of the ?missing N500bn ($3bn)?, is probably the biggest, most...

Lawan Indicted In Subsidy Bribe

dailytimes.com.ng - Oct 24, 2013

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An Abuja High Court on Wednesday dismissed a fresh application for stay of proceedings in the trial of former Chairman, House of Representatives...

In good, Let?s Give Honour to Whom It?s Due

News Ghana - Oct 18, 2013

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By Abdullahi M. Seidu In Nigeria, it is customary for us to throw stones at government officials when they stray off course; and even...

Oil subsidy debts owed marketers reduced-Okonjo-Iweala

dailytimes.com.ng - Sep 24, 2013

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Debts owed marketers for oil subsidy has been reduced from N2.2trillion in 2011 to, N971 billion in 2012, the Federal Government said on...

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