{"id":39098,"date":"2014-08-14T08:18:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T08:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=39098"},"modified":"2014-08-14T09:35:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T09:35:05","slug":"northern-ghana-investment-forum-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/08\/northern-ghana-investment-forum-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ghana Investment Forum underway"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/strong>A four day event dubbed the Northern Ghana Investment Conference is underway in the Northern Regional capital Tamale.<\/p>\n As the third edition, the theme is, \u201cProjecting the resource potentials of Northern Ghana for accelerated development: the role of Public-Private Partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n The annual conference serves as a catalyst of promoting businesses and investment potentials in Northern Ghana.<\/p>\n The four-day event brought together dominant corporate players from Northern Ghana in the banking, insurance, Information Communication Technology and other businesses under the Small and Medium Enterprise categories to network and act together.<\/p>\n In his welcome address, Chief Executive Officer of Ridmut consults, Mutawakil Riyad encouraged investors to invest in Northern Ghana.<\/p>\n \u201cInvestment opportunities in northern sector are enormous: we are blessed with a lot of natural and human resources and if properly harnessed it could bring us out of poverty and deprivation.\u201d<\/p>\n He regretted that there was no exploitation of the businesses and investment potentials in Northern Ghana.<\/p>\n \u201cIn spite of all these resources that we have there are little or absolutely no exploitation of most of this wealth.\u201d<\/p>\n