President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has described the depreciation of the cedi against the U.S. dollar and other major currencies, as well as the prevailing harsh economic environment, as a difficult situation requiring some degree of fortitude and firm action to deal with. The local currency has neared the GHS5: US$1 mark. The frequent increase in the price of fuel ...

Member of Parliament for Efutu, Lawyer Afenyo Markins has stated categorically that Mr Alfred Obeng, the immediate past MD of BOST was sacked from office not because of any wrongdoing on his part but due to his effort to clean up the mess at BOST. He said in an attempt to streamline and clean up the rot, the cartel in ...

A Nigerian man of God known as Prophet Isreal Oladele Ogundipe has shown his church members an exceptional act of kindness by giving out his church offering to a woman in need. The prophet during his recent church service at CCC Genesis Global called out a needy woman from his congregation and instructed her to collect all the money which ...

Angry youth of Chanziegu in Kumbungu in the Northern Region, on Friday, besieged the Kumbungu Naa’s palace, protesting against a decision by the skin to block police from arresting a sub-chief who shot and killed another chief of the village during Thursday night’s celebration of the Fire Festival. The Saha Naa of the village, Mumuni Haruna, 40, was pronounced dead ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, left Ghana on Friday, 21st September, 2018, to participate in the inauguration ceremony of the President-elect of the Republic of Mali, H.E. Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. President Akufo-Addo will, after the inauguration ceremony, leave Mali on Saturday, 22nd September, 2018, to lead Ghana’s delegation to the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly. Whilst there, ...

Private legal practitioner Edudzi Tamakloe has described as façade the forensic audit report on the Ghana National Gas Company. According to him, the forensic audit which uncovered a whopping US$137,861,127.15 in procurement breaches at the company under the Mahama administration is nothing but a smokescreen to divert attention from the litany of corruption scandals that has rocked the government. “At ...

The rift between founder of Glorious Word Power Ministry, Rev Isaac Owusu Bempah and Overseer of the Royal House Chapel Sam Korankye Ankrah appears unending as the former continues to throw shades at the latter. Less than 24 hours after Rev Owusu Bempah said Rev. Sam Korankye Ankrah was not in the best position to accuse anyone of bleaching because ...

The Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr has mocked the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia for supervising a failing economy. According to him, the fast depreciating cedi is an indication that the country’s economy is not doing well and hence called on the government to act fast to save the economy before the worse happens. Kwesi Pratt’s ...

Gabon’s football federation (Fegafoot) has hired a trio of former national team skippers to rescue the country’s aspirations of qualifying for the continental football showpiece scheduled for next year in Cameroon. A Thursday statement from Fegafoot announced that Pierre Aubame and Daniel Cousin have been named as co-coaches of Gabon after the dismissal last week of Spaniard Jose Antonio Camacho. ...

Ghana assistant coach Ibrahim Tanko says he sides with Schalke 04 left-back Baba Rahman who has asked for some time away from international duty to regain full fitness after a long-term injury. The 24-year-old only played his first competitive game in May due to a terrible knee injury picked up while on duty the Black Stars at the Africa Cup ...