Rating agency Standard & Poor’s has revised Ghana’s outlook from stable to positive while affirming its ‘B-‘ long-term and ‘B’ short-term foreign and local currency sovereign ratings on the country. The outlook on the long-term ratings was revised to positive from stable. In general, a credit rating is used by sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, and other investors to gauge ...

Government has given a strong indication that the restoration of the abolished trainee teachers’ allowances will soon follow after restoring that of nurses. The disclosure comes during the launch of the restoration of the nurses’ trainee allowances by the government Tuesday. The erstwhile administration of ex-president John Mahama in 2014 scrapped the age-old teacher trainee allowance, replacing it with student ...

CHELSEA forward Eden Hazard admits he’s far from 100 per cent fit despite making his return to first-team action. Hazard missed Chelsea’s opening three Premier League games of the season after undergoing surgery on an ankle injury back in July. He’s appeared in the Blues’ last seven games across all competitions, starting their latest league outing in the 1-0 defeat ...

Ghanaian movie star, Vicky Zugah, has disclosed that she sees nothing wrong with ladies engaging in lesbianism, insisting it is a matter of choice. The actress was on the Celebrity Ride show with Zionfelix, and discussed a variety of issues, including that of her current relationship status. Touching on the issue of lesbianism, Vicky Zugah said she does not see ...

The autopsy report of the late Major Maxwell Mahama is still unavailable to police investigators, four months after his death. The army officer was promoted posthumously to the rank of Major, after he was slain on May 29, 2017, by some youth of Denkyira Obuasi in the Central Region, on suspicion that he was an armed robber. The incident reportedly ...

The 13 members of the pro-government vigilante group, Delta Force have had charged against them dropped by the Police based on the advice of the Attorney General. The 13 were earlier charged with conspiracy to commit crime, assault on public officer and causing unlawful damage. The 13 were arrested and charged after they stormed and chased out the Ashanti regional ...

When the list of most prestigious Senior High Schools (SHS) in Ghana are being mentioned, the Presbyterian Boys Secondary School (Presec) is definitely one that will make the cut. The boys school has churned out some of the best brains in all sectors when it comes to academia. And as Presec celebrated its Torch & Bonfire night on Saturday, many ...

The Eastern Regional Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Mr. Bismark Taiwan Boateng has endorsed former President John Dramani Mahama to lead the party again in 2020 general elections as their flag bearer despite the abysmal performance at the 2016 polls. According to him, the visions and policies that the former president laid down during his tenure as ...

FEARS of a volcano erupting on the Canary Islands has sparked panic as the Spanish archipelago was hit by more than 40 earthquake tremors in just 48 hours. La Palma was rocked by more than 40 seismic movements of low magnitude and intensity between 1.5 and 2.7 on the Richter scale, according to the data of the National Geographic Institute. ...

Harare – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s cabinet reshuffle quashed opposition within his government, state media said Tuesday, as the 93-year-old leader prepares to stand again in elections next year. Mugabe stripped Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa of his role as justice minister, reassigned the finance minister and created a new cyber-security ministry in the major reshuffle late Monday. Mnangagwa is one ...