The Monetary Policy Committee (MPR) of the Bank of Ghana has increased its policy rate by 100 basis points from 13.5 per cent to 14.5 per cent, citing inflationary pressures. “Inflationary pressures are becoming embedded in most advanced and emerging market economies with potential implications for the current supportive financing conditions driving the recovery,” the Bank of Ghana said in ...

Ghanaian highlife musician Quarme Zaggy showed great displeasure and disbelief that his own friend and colleague Kumi Guitar blatantly lied about him wearing waist beads and being a womanizer so that his song could trend. Nana Yaw Kumi, popularly known as Kumi Guitar, released a new song, ‘Sex’, which talks about promiscuous men in the industry. In the song, he ...

Ghana’s former High Commissioner to Canada Nii Ayikoi Otoo has suggested that Ghana’s legal education be reformed to allow experienced lawyers teach the professional law course to law graduates at accredited institutions after which they all sit one law exam and those who pass be called to the Bar. There have been calls for reforms in legal education after so ...

FIFA have revealed their shortlisted candidates for The Best FIFA Football Awards, with the winner to be announced on January 17. The players and coaches were selected by expert panels from women’s and men’s football which included Eniola Aluko, Emma Byrne and Marta Tejedor, as well as Tim Cahill, David Trezeguet and Alexi Lalas. Public voting is to be cast ...

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) is set to kick start the first of many FIFA Beach Soccer courses, workshops and certification clinics specifically designed for coaches, officials, referees and related beach soccer officers. These courses which are being spearhead under the directions of the Ghana FA, would greatly boost and enhance the knowledge of Beach Soccer stakeholders in Ghana. Beyond capacity building, ...

The Ghana National Gas Company Limited (GNGCL) has said it will not shy away from routine engineering and maintenance of machines and equipment at its Gas Processing Station at Atuabo in the Western Region. The Company insist that engineering and maintenance works are only to guarantee the integrity of its processing plant and will continue to do so in accordance ...

According to Gospel musician Patience Nyarko, Ghanaians are their own enemies. She charged the citizenry to hold themselves accountable first before demanding it from others. The musician disclosed that God revealed to her that there was a thief with her team. Upon investigations from her end, the accused person turned out to be her Youtube manager/aggregator. On Thursday, Patience Nyarko ...

The Prime Minister of Denmark Mrs. Mette Frederiksen pays an official visit to Ghana tomorrow Wednesday, 24 and Thursday 25 November to mark 60 years of diplomatic relations between Denmark and Ghana. She will be received by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Madam Cecilia Abena Dapaah. The Prime Minister will be accompanied ...

Private legal practitioner, Samson Lardy Anyenini, has celebrated the former Auditor-General Daniel Domelevo for exercising the powers given to him by the Supreme Court to surcharge and disallow when malfeasance occurred in institutions. Mr Anyenini believed that the power to surcharge and disallow was best in the fight against corruption however, Mr Domelevo who ensured that this was done was ...

Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia on Monday, 22 November 2021 opened the first annual ‘Ghana Digital Innovation Week’ celebration in Accra. The Digital Innovation Week is designed to bring together all stakeholders in the digitalization ecosystem and provide a common platform for wide-reaching conversations on fostering innovation and turning ideas into practical solutions for societal problems. Dr Bawumia noted that with ...