The Mobile Money Interoperability (MMI) platform recorded a whopping 317% growth in the volume of transaction and 267% growth value of transactions between 2018 and 2019. This was contained in the 2019 summary report from Ghana Inter-Bank Payments and Settlements System (GhIPSS), custodians of the MMI platform. According to the report, the value of the transactions for 2019 was GHS781.6 ...

The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia is alleging that the Electoral Commission has ‘bribed’ some top journalists to support their campaign for the new voters’ register. According to the NDC general secretary, the EC held a secret meeting with some senior journalists to convince them to shut up and rather propagate, the Commission’s agenda ...

Emergency healthcare services in Ghana are to receive a major boost from this week, following the dispatch of over 300 Ambulances, over 300 EMT Drivers and support staff and 30 Dispatchers to 275 constituencies nationwide from Tuesday. The ambulances were procured under the government Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Programme (IPEP) currently being implemented by the Ministry of Special Development Initiatives. ...

Some young people in the country now smoke dried faeces and soak sanitary pads to drink for vitality. This shocking revelation was made by the Upper West regional commander of Narcotics Control Board Ishak Bakuri when Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery visited the regional NACOB office as part of his three day tour of the region. He said there was no ...

It is on record that King John Aggrey Essien of Oguaa (Cape Coast) was the first king in the 19th century to really have challenged the legitimacy of British authority. Organizing systematic protests against the British earned him the accolade as one of the African political martyrs of British imperialism, but not the first king of Cape Coast. King John ...

The Minister for Information Kojo Oppong Nkrumah says government welcomes the change in the nation’s economic outlook from stable to positive by the Moody’s rating agency. He told Journalists at a briefing in Accra on Sunday that the Economic Management Team is very pleased with the outlook change and commits to doing more. “The change in outlook is a very ...

The pressure group calling itself, Interparty Resistance Against New Voters Register led by the opposition NDC have been advised to put a stop to the needless demonstrations they are staging against the EC’s decision to compile a new voters register ahead of this year’s general election. The latest advice is coming from the Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO), the ...

Authorities in Cote d’Ivoire have tested the first person on the African continent for the Wuhan coronavirus, Cote d’Ivoire’s Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene said in a statement Sunday. An Ivorian student who traveled from Beijing to Abidjan experienced symptoms such as coughing, sneezing and difficulty breathing, the ministry said. The student was moved to a safe location on ...

There is escalating tension at Awenade, a community near Nkawkaw in the Eastern Region after a corpse was exhumed and dumped in front of a chief palace. The coffin containing the body of a 39-year-old Adwoa Antwiwaa was exhumed by some unknown persons and left at the forecourt of a rival chief’s palace occupied by Nana Danso Ofori III Sunday ...

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