The Flag bearer of the Convention People's Party (CPP), Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom has kicked against government's decision to sell Ghana Telecom (GT) to Vodafone International Holding at the cost of $900 million.

The privatisation of Safaricom may have put the Kenyan capital market on the world map, but this close attention by global hedge funds and security traders is coming at a heavy price.

As G8 leaders wrapped up their forum in Hokkaido in Japan, some 13,000km away, the hundreds of people who had gathered for the seventh annual alternative People's Forum, this year held in the town of Koulikoro, Mali, were issuing a closing statement to their own conference, and its tone was defiant.

The privatisation of the National Development Bank (NDB) gathered momentum this week when government announced that the Nedbank Capital of South Africa has won the tender to develop a strategy for the transaction.

THE VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE BY KENYA'S PARliament in Finance Minister Amos Kimunya last week brought to the fore fundamental issues on public procurement and privatisation.

The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) said yesterday that gains of the privatisation programme could be stifled without the passage of nine outstanding reform bills into law.

THE long-awaited sale of the Government's 40% stake in the National Insurance Corporation (NIC) on the stock exchange is expected to be finalised by August, the Privatisation Unit's public relations officer, Jim Mugunga, has said.

THE MINORITY in Parliament has questioned the supposed confidentiality, lack of openness and transparency with which government is conducting negotiations regarding the privatization and sale of majority shares in Ghana Telecom (GT), between the Government of Ghana (GOG) and Vodafone plc. UK.