The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has commended Muslim and Christian leaders in Ghana for their immense contributions to religious tolerance and peace in the country. Addressing thousands of Muslims on Saturday, at the 2021 National Maulid – the celebration of the birth of Prophet Muhammad, S.A.W – Dr. Bawumia said Ghana’s global credentials as a religious tolerant and a ...

Three people have been shot dead while six others are in critical condition after armed robbers attacked and exchanged fire with Small scale miners who were returning from their mining site at Adaboi in Upper Denkyira West District of the Central region. The three people who were killed were part of the workers on the site. Information gathered by Yaw ...

The Black Stars of Ghana have qualified to the next stage of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers to be staged in Qatar after they won 1-0 against South Africa at the Cape Coast sports stadium. The Stars started the game on a high note as they pressed Bafana Bafana for the ball. In the 6th minute, a Kudus Mohammed free ...

About 571,894 final year junior high school (JHS) students are beginning their Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) from today, Monday, November 15. The examination is to qualify them for placement into senior high schools (SHSs). Over 2,000 centers have been set up across the 16 regions of the country for the examinations run by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC). ...

Fulham striker Aleksandar Mitrovic scored a dramatic late winner as Serbia booked their place at next year’s World Cup and condemned Portugal to the play-offs. Hosts Portugal only needed a draw to qualify and looked to have done enough, with Renato Sanches’ opener cancelled out by Dusan Tadic’s equaliser. Mitrovic had started the game on the bench but was sent ...

The Bank of Ghana has revealed that an assessment of the banking sector as at end-August 2021 indicated that the sector’s performance remained strong, underpinned by sustained growth in total assets, deposits, and investments. The expansion in the industry’s assets was on the back of increased liquidity flows from deposits and borrowings during the review period. Banks’ average lending rates ...

“Just as we were the first country, south of the Sahara, to gain our independence, Ghana’s distinguished diplomat, Patrick Seddoh, was the first African to be elected chairperson of the Executive Board of UNESCO in 1983. We were also the first African country to have a female representative on the Executive Board, in the person of another distinguished diplomat, Mrs. ...

Member of Parliament for Nhyiaeso Constituency in the Ashanti Region Dr Stephen Amoah has apologized for the scuffle that ensued between him and South Dayi colleague Rockson Dafeamekpor. He explained that although the scene was widely reported on various social media platforms and traditional media, it was exaggerated and only captured one side of the whole incident. In a video ...

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has applauded the Black Stars for topping Group G to qualify for the World Cup play-offs following a 1-0 victory over South Africa on Sunday, 14 November 2021. Dr Bawumia descried the victor as hard-fought. Captain of the team Andre Ayew who won his 100th Cap on the day, scored the only goal of the match ...

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group on Friday approved a grant of $40 million from the African Development Fund to Ghana to further capitalise The Development Bank Ghana (DBG), a newly established development finance institution in Ghana. The Development Bank Ghana is designed to provide financing to micro, small and medium sized enterprises as well as ...