Lawyer for Nhyiraba Kojo Philip Fiifi Buckman has indicated that his client will soon be released to reunite with his family. Nhyiraba Kojo, a popular Hip Life musician and owner of the NK City Nightclub at Fijai in Takoradi, has been sentenced to 30 days imprisonment by a Sekondi Commercial High Court. He was jailed on the grounds of a ...

Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta, says their top-of-the-table game against Manchester City will not decide the Premier League title. League leaders Arsenal are five points above Pep Guardiola’s side before Wednesday’s match at Etihad Stadium. However, City has two games in hand on the Gunners who have drawn three league matches in succession. “We knew we had to go to Etihad, ...

THE NEWLY elected New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary Candidate for Kumawu, Ernest Yaw Anim, dissolved his campaign team immediately he was declared winner in the party polls on Sunday. The move, he explained, is intended to unite the party ahead of the May 23, 2023 by-election at Kumawu, which has been occasioned by the death of Philip Basoah, the late ...

Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin hopes a salary cap can be introduced in European football, and says all clubs agree on the topic. Ceferin said he had spoken to the European Commission about the issue and talks had taken place about bringing in such a measure. “Surprisingly, everyone agrees,” he told US media outlet Men In Blazers “Big clubs, small clubs, ...

Ghana has taken the tough economic decisions needed to win a rescue package from the International Monetary Fund, once bilateral creditors sign off on assurances, said the institution’s Africa Department Director Abebe Selassie. The government has increased taxes and imposed losses on domestic investors, as authorities attempt to meet IMF demands for the $3 billion loan. Still, informal talks with ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration says 82 Ghanaian nationals have been evacuated from the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, so far. Seventy-seven were evacuated to safety in Gedaref, Sudan, to be transported to Ethiopia on Wednesday, April 26 while five, comprising three footballers and two working for an Australian mining company, are being evacuated through the Egyptian border post ...

Gospel artiste Piesie Esther, has stated that she has no rivalry with any gospel artiste up for the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards’ (VGMA) Best Gospel Artiste Category. Piesie Esther, who is competing against Joe Mettle, Perez Muzik, Diana Hamilton, Celestine Donkor, and MOG Music for the “Best Gospel Artiste,” says she does not view the award as a chance to ...

The Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) has disclosed that preliminary monitoring report on 58 institutions has estimated that about 22 per cent of their wage bill is unearned salaries. This development emerged from an ongoing nationwide payroll monitoring exercise to expunge existing anomalies and fraud in the public sector payroll. The exercise is to save the country an estimated ...

Fitch Ratings has downgraded Ghana’s Long-Term Local-Currency (LTLC) Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to ‘RD’ from ‘CCC’. Fitch has also downgraded to ‘CC’ from ‘CCC’ and subsequently withdrawn the issue ratings on five local-currency bonds issued prior to the domestic debt exchange. Fitch has affirmed the issue rating of local-currency bonds issued on the completion date of the domestic debt exchange ...

Flagbearer aspirant of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama has said the country’s cocoa sector is on the verge of collapse because of the mismanagement of the sector by government. Addressing party supporters and branch executives at the beginning of a two-day campaign tour of the Western North Region, Mr. Mahama said government’s failure to adjust the producer ...