Some of the banks that went down during the clean-up exercise undertaken by the Bank of Ghana (BoG) were obviously going through deep troubles, Financial Analyst, Mr Joe Jackson has said. He described those banks as rotten. It is recalled that some local banks collapsed when the central bank revised the minimum paid-up capital for existing banks and new entrants ...

Instead of traditional gold bands, Czech couple Jiri and Ondrej Vedral exchanged smart rings on their wedding day. Smart rings are wearable electronic devices with functions similar to smartwatches. They typically allow the user to monitor his or her heartbeat, and make a contactless payment. It’s a fast-growing tech sector, reported to be seeing global sales rise by 21% a year. ...

Amazon’s core e-commerce business may be struggling – but the profit-making parts of its business are delivering. Online sales were flat in the first three months of the year compared with the same period in 2022, the company said on Thursday. But it offset that with better-than-expected sales in its cloud services and advertising units. Profits also jumped in a ...

La Liga president Javier Tebas has cast doubt on the possibility of Lionel Messi returning to Barcelona due to the club’s financial issues. The Argentine forward, who is out of contract at PSG in the summer, has been linked with a move back to Barcelona, where he won 10 La Liga titles and five Champions League trophies. Tebas has previously ...

Nana Ama McBrown, Ghana’s most beloved screen goddess and TV personality, has finally cleared the air on the situation surrounding her popular cooking show, “McBrowns Kitchen.” Mcbrown made her big media move to Onua TV and Radio, members of the 3 Group under Media General netwrok in March after her exit from United Television months prior. However, her show, “McBrowns ...

Real Madrid midfielder Luka Modric could miss the Copa del Rey final and the first leg of their Champions League semi-final against Manchester City due to a thigh injury. The 37-year-old Croatian limped off just over an hour into Real’s recent 4-2 defeat to Girona with ice strapped to his leg. While the club refused to give a timeframe for ...

Black Stars midfielder, Mohammed Kudus, has returned from a muscle injury to train with Ajax Amsterdam ahead of the Dutch giant’s Dutch Cup final game against PSV Eindhoven. The 2023 Dutch Cup Final takes place on Sunday, April 30 at 16:00 GMT and is the second game in a row where the bitter rivals are facing off. PSV thrashed Ajax ...

Twitter users bid farewell to an iconic feature on the platform, as many reported on Thursday that they had lost their verified blue check marks. These badges were initially awarded by the company’s previous leadership to distinguish high-profile users and public organizations. While Twitter had previously announced that the system would be phased out on April 1, nothing happened until ...

The African Union (AU) on Thursday called on Sudan’s neighbors and the international community to help people fleeing deadly fighting in the country, again calling for a ceasefire. AU Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat “continues to follow with growing concern the plight of civilians caught in the deadly conflict in Sudan,” his office said in a statement. “The chairperson renews ...

Profit of the biggest mobile network operator (MNO) in the country, MTN Ghana slowed down in the first quarter of the year. The company’s profit went up marginally by 5.4 per cent in the period under review from GH₵‎707.5 million as at the end of March 2022 to GH₵‎745.4 million. With this development, it is not clear whether the commencement ...