Ghanaian president nominates economist as governor

Ernest Addison is lead regional economist at African Development Bank

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Ghana’s president, Nana Akufo-Addo, has nominated a former head of the central bank’s research division to be its next governor.

Ernest Addison was nominated as the next governor by the president, says a statement distributed by a government-owned media source yesterday (March 30). Former governor Abdul-Nashiru Issahaku announced his resignation for “personal reasons” earlier the same day, one year into his four-year term.

President Akufo-Addo had rapidly nominated a successor “in order not to

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