Ghana have qualified for the 2022 African Nations Championship quarter-finals following Madagascar’s impressive win over Sudan on Tuesday evening, Black Galaxies defeated Sudan 3-1 last week to put themselves in a good position to qualify, but they still needed Madagascar’s help. Ghana needed Madagascar to avoid a heavy defeat against Sudan to qualify, and the Barea exceeded expectations with a ...

The Ghana Bondholders Forum has reaffirmed the need for government to exclude individual bondholders, including individuals and Collective Investment Schemes, who account for less than 11% of the eligible bonds. According to the Forum, with the banks onboarding the Domestic Debt Exchange (DDE) Programme, the government is set to reach its 80% target, and as such they must be exempted ...

Everton have sacked manager Frank Lampard after less than a year in charge at Goodison Park. Defeat at fellow strugglers West Ham United on Saturday was Everton’s ninth loss in 12 Premier League games. They are second from bottom of the table with 15 points from 20 matches, above Southampton on goal difference. Former England midfielder Lampard, 44, replaced Rafael ...

Ghanaian gospel sensation Rev Paa Boateng has observed that many Ghanaian gospel artistes do not consult time-tested gospel artistes, hence not getting message-driven songs. Music pundits over the years have hit hard at most gospel musicians, blaming them for veering off from the traditional message-driven gospel music to sensationalism and hit songs. Speaking on the issue on Akoma FM‘s Saturday ...

The Special Prosecutor has directed the criminal prosecution of Mr Sumaila Abdul–Rahman, the Chief Executive Officer of the Northern Development Authority and two of his deputies Mr Stephen Yir-eru Engmen and Mr Patrick Seidu for breaches of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA). The Chief Executive of A&QS Consortium Limited, Mr Andrew Kuundaari, will also face criminal prosecution for his role. The two deputy ...

The Ministry of Health has responded to the Auditor General’s latest report on government’s COVID-19 expenditure. In the report, the Auditor General noted that the Ministry of Health on behalf of the Government of Ghana paid an amount of $120,192,379.80 to UNICEF/AVAT for the supply of vaccines, “However, 5,109,600.00 doses of vaccines valued at $38,322,000.00 were supplied to the National ...

Kenya’s opposition leader, Raila Odinga, has said his political coalition does not recognise William Ruto as the President of Kenya and declared the new Kenyan government as “illegitimate”. Mr Ruto beat him in last August’s poll, but Mr Odinga – who appeared at Nairobi’s Kamukunji Stadium along with his running mate Martha Karua, and other allies – repeated claims that ...

The Director of Advocacy at the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Dr. Emmanuel Kojo Asante has added his voice to calls for government to cut down on its expenses by reducing the number of its ministers and appointees. Dr. Asante said the current number of ministries with 86 ministers and deputy ministers is a huge drain on the public ...

The government has been told to at least commit 10% of the Goods and Services budget and 33% of the infrastructure budget of the education sector to basic education. Africa Education Watch (Eduwatch) said the government must do this if the country is to invest adequately to build new schools to replace the over 5,000 schools currently under trees and ...

A Vice President of Imani Africa Mr Bright Simons has said that the government has still not made any progress with insurance firms, offshore investment and individuals regarding the Domestic Debt Exchange programme despite the agreements it reached with the Ghana Association Bankers (GAB). On Monday, January 23, the Government of Ghana and the GAB reached an agreement on the new terms ...