For retired Medical Doctor, Dr Samuel Quaye, buying government bonds a year ago was a prudent way to invest his money. The retiree who has failing health believed that when his principal matured, he would have enough funds to facilitate the medical help he needed. However, his optimism was short-lived when the government announced its decision to undertake a Domestic ...

A financial analyst, Johnson Annan has called on Ghanaians to ignore the commentaries by the Director of Research at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA),Dr. Kwakye and others who have criticized the Bank of Ghana(BoG) for supporting government expenditure in 2022. The BoG received flak from critics including Dr Kwakye who said the central bank’s action was wrong. But Mr ...

Regular readers would recall a recent tweet about whispers floating around Accra’s political alleys about the role of fixers and go-betweens in Ghana’s Vice President’s vaunted “Gold for Oil” initiative. A bit earlier, we explored the merits and prospects of the whole Gold for Oil program in some detail. When the above tweet was made, the Chamber of Bullion Traders, a gold ...

The Ghana Football Association has appointed Chris Hughton as the new head coach of the Black Stars following extensive deliberations between the two parties. The decision to appoint Hughton comes following the resignation of Otto Addo as the team’s head coach after Ghana’s exit from the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Addo was head of the team with assistance ...

The Kansas City Chiefs became NFL champions for the second time in four years after fighting back to claim a thrilling 38-35 win over the Philadelphia Eagles. Seen as slight underdogs for Super Bowl 57, the Chiefs trailed for much of the game in Phoenix and were 27-21 down heading into the final quarter. But despite limping after aggravating an ...

Veteran Ghanaian musician Reginald Yaw Asante Osei, commercially known in the music space as Reggie Rockstone, the originator of Hiplife, a music genre that fuses Ghanaian Highlife music with Hip-hop, has opined that Payola is one of the factors that hindered the projection of Hiplife. For persons who do not understand the meaning of Payola, it is slang for paying or bribing ...

A leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gabby Otchere-Darko, has criticised the former Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo for joining her colleague pensioners to picket the Finance Ministry on Friday. The cousin of President Akufo-Addo, in a series of tweets on Sunday, said the former Chief Justice should have taken the time to understand issues pertaining to the ongoing ...

The convener of the Individual Bond Holders Association of Ghana (IBHAG) has commended former Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo for participating in the Debt Exchange Programme protest. Martin Kpebu says the action of the former Chief Justice shows her love for the public good. According to him, Ghana will become a better country if more statesmen and women speak up against ...

The National Youth Organiser of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Mark Ewusi, has lauded investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni for his recent exposé but indicated that pointing fingers at the sector minister as directly complicit is “absurd” and “untrue”. Mr Ewusi insists that findings of such works should be based on truthfulness rather than destroying the reputations of state officials. ...

The Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta has been told to sound appealing to pensioners to accept their inclusion in the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP). A Finacial analyst, Mr Joe Jackson said although the government is caught in a difficult situation as it seeks to close a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), it must also take actions to ...