Berekum Chelsea and Elmina Sharks battle it out for the three points on matchday 30 fixture of the Ghana Premier League at the Golden City Park. The two teams have accrued 34 points each on the league table with Berekum Chelsea in 13th position due to superior goal difference while Elmina Sharks is placed 14th. Berekum Chelsea will be hoping ...

Ghanaian comic actor Funny Face has disclosed that he is expecting another set of twins. The ‘Kasoa Trotro’ actor, who already has twin girls and another baby with his girlfriend, Vanessa, said his next children will be from a different woman. According to Funny Face, born Benson Nana Yaw, while battling depression, he ended up in a relationship with a ...

Liverpool star Sadio Mane has spent more than £450,000 to help fund the building of a hospital in his home village of Bambaly in  Senegal. Mane has frequently funded infrastructure projects in the village, previously helping to construct a secondary school and having a supermarket named after him. The winger frequently travels back to his home nation during the summer at the end of ...

The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has described African Education Watch independent assessment report on 2020 WASSCE in the country as misleading. Head of Public Affairs, WAEC National, Agnes Teye-Cudjoe, at a press conference in Accra, noted that the Council was not engaged by Africa Education Watch before outdooring its report. According to Ms Teye-Cudjoe, if Africa Education Watch also ...

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) and the National Sports Authority (NSA) will hold a stakeholder meeting today, Tuesday, 22 June 2021, ahead of the Ghana Premier League’s match day 31 clash between archrivals Hearts of Oak and Asante Kotoko. The meeting will come off at the Media Centre of the Accra Sports Stadium. The meeting is expected to bring together ...

An Economist with the University of Ghana Business School (UGBS) Dr Lord Mensah says the downgrade of Ghana’s economic outlook from stable to negative by International rating firm, Fitch, is not surprising. According to the latest Fitch report, the negative rating reflects the significant deterioration in public finances as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and the delays by the ...

The Ghana Health Service has indicated that the AstraZeneca and Sputnik V vaccines are effective against a deadly Indian strain of the Coronavirus detected in Ghana recently. A statement issued by the GHS and signed by its Director-General, Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye on Tuesday, 22 June 2021 in reaction to an online publication discrediting the potency of vaccines against the Delta ...

The World Bank Migration and Development Report for 2021 has reported an increase of 5 per cent to $3.6 billion in remittance flows to Ghana despite the lockdowns around the world in the heat of the COVID-19 pandemic. Host countries for Ghanaian migrants include the USA, UK, Côte d’Ivoire, Italy, Germany, and Canada. The resilience of Ghanaian migrants has been ...

Coalition of Former Menzgold Customers on Tuesday, 22 June 2021 called on the Speaker of Parliament Alban S. K Bagbin to ask him to help them retrieve their locked-up funds with the now-defunct company. The leader of the 10-man delegation Isaac Nyarko expressed worry about the impact of closure of Menzgold on customers and their families, adding that the banking ...

International Economic rating firm Fitch has downgraded Ghana’s Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to Negative from stable. Fitch has affirmed the IDR at ‘B’. According to the latest Fitch report, the negative rating reflects the significant deterioration in public finances as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and the delays by government to roll out its fiscal consolidation efforts. ...