The Ghana Football Association (GFA) recently held a meeting with the Professional Footballers Association of Ghana (PFAG) to discuss the involvement of former footballers in the running of the country’s football. This meeting comes weeks after former Black Stars captain, Stephen Appiah, claimed that ex-footballers had been sidelined in the running of Ghana’s football. During the meeting, Stephen Appiah was ...

There is no illegal small scale mining activity (Galamsey) ongoing at the backyard of the President’s residence in his hometown Kyebi in the Eastern Region, the Director of Communications for the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Richard Ahiagbah has said. His comment follows an allegation made by a former Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, who once chaired the ...

It appears illegal mining on water bodies in the country is still thriving despite government’s report that the menace is being curbed. In a tweet by the national broadcaster, GTV says that the turbidity of the River Pra is much worse off in April 2023 than it was seven months ago (September 2022). In December 2022, government deployed 87 river wardens to ...

Former Member of Parliament for Tema East, Titus Glover has said the fight against illegal small scale mining (Galamsey) is a collective responsibility of all stakeholders. He said the fight is not for one person. LEARN AND TRADE FOREX WITH GOLIGFX WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW: The government is involved, Chiefs, the media and civil society are all involved, he said ...

Banks in the country have begun releasing their 2022 Financial Statement ahead of the April 30, 2023 deadline by the Bank of Ghana. But the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP) has impacted negatively on their profitability position. According to the 2022 Audited Financial Statements sighted by Joy Business, almost all the banks that have published their statements recorded losses. Standard ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo should sack all persons around him who have been identified as making the fight against illegal small scale mining (Galamsey) difficult, former Member of Parliament for Tema East Titus Glover has said. Mr Titus Glover indicated that criticisms over galamsey issues are directedly blamed on the President and the Vice President whereas some persons have ...

President Akufo-Addo has nominated Justice Gertrude Araba Esaaba Torkornoo as the new Chief Justice. The President in a letter to the Council of State on Tuesday, April 25, said her nomination is to avoid any vacuum that would occur following the retirement of the current Chief Justice Kwasi Anin Yeboah on May 24. “Chief Justice Kwasi Anin Yeboah is due ...

Businessman Senyo Hosi says the Akufo-Addo administration is pushing a chunk of Ghana’s financial liabilities to a future government through the new Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP) that has been presented to labour. Speaking on the Business Focus with Paa Kwasi Asare on TV3 Monday April 17, he said “You actually have a government now who is deffering a lot ...

Renowned US Professor of Economics, Steve Hanke has chastised Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta for mismanaging the Ghanaian economy. Professor Hanke who is a hard critic of Ghanaian authorities in a tweet was surprised about Mr Ofori-Atta’s position that he’s disappointed foreign lenders have been slow to act in supporting Ghana’s quest to get a programme from the International Monetary Fund. ...

Former Deputy Employment Minister Austin Akufo Gamey says the approach the Minister of Finance, Kenneth Nana Yaw Ofori-Atta, and the government, by extension, are using to implement the new debt restructuring programme “is not good enough”. “If I were the Minister of Finance, my approach will be 100 percent different from what they are doing now,” he said on Midday ...