The year-on-year inflation rose slightly in July to 11.4 percent compared with 11.2 percent in June, 2020. Professor Samuel Kobina Annim, the Government Statistician, said at a briefing that after large price increased in March to June, the month-on-month inflation rate of 0.5 percent seem to indicate that prices are increasing at pre-COVID-19 levels again. Food inflation stood at 13.7 ...

Ghana coach Charles Kwablah Akonnor has named his Ghana Best XI squad which features legendary Abedi Pele, Robert Eshun, Frimpong Manso and Leeds United cult hero Tony Yeboah. The former VfL Wolfsburg captain named the squad from players he either played with or watch play. CK Akonnnor named former Blackpool and Birmingham City goalkeeper Richard Kingston in post during an ...

Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia insists John Dramani Mahama’s record of incompetence is speaking loudly even as an opposition leader who is seeking to be elected again as president of Ghana. According to the Vice President, the NDC flagbearer is making promises to Ghanaians as if he has not been a President of the republic before. Addressing the youth wing of ...

Former President John Mahama, the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has assured Ghanaians that he and his running mate, Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, will never engage in politics of insults. “My running mate, Prof Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, who I am presenting to you today, has been encouraged by the Osu Mantse to be strong and courageous in the ...

Armed robbers have shot dead the Head Pastor of the Ejisu branch of the Jehovah Nisi Evangelical Ministry in Kumasi. The incident happened in the early of hours of Wednesday, August 12, 2020 at his residence at Anyinam Kegyase near Santasi in Kumasi, Ashanti region. Pastor Maxwell Attakorah, 44, was shot in the chest by people suspected to be robbers ...

The influence of the wife of former President Jerry John Rawlings played a significant role in the parting of ways between Rawlings and the late Prof Mills, Prof Kwamena Ahwoi has recounted in his book, “Working with Rawlings”. According to him, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, Rawlings’ wife also influenced greatly, her husband’s falling out with his comrades and confidants who had ...

West Africa, with about 380 million people, is the final frontier for global automakers looking to increase manufacturing capacity in a region where they currently have little presence. While local assemblers in Nigeria, home to nearly half of the region’s population, have partnered with companies such as Volkswagen AG to make vehicles in the country, President Muhammadu Buhari last year ...

Details emerging from the Bono Region, continue to firmly place the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Dormaa West, Ali Maiga Halidu, at the center of last Saturday’s indiscriminate shooting at Nkrankwanta in the Dormaa West District. Yesterday, the police arrested Ali Musah, alias Idrisu Musah, identified as one of the MP’s bodyguards and a driver, who ...

Former President John Mahama says Christians in the country cannot look on as the country slips into decadence by the Akufo-Addo government. According to the NDC flagbearer, the NPP government has compromised all state institutions with partisan politics and interest. Introducing his runningmate to the Christian Community at a ceremony in Accra, Mr Mahama appealed to the Christian community to ...

A High Court in the Upper East regional capital, Bolgatanga, has awarded costs of Gh¢4,000 against the Shaanxi Mining Ghana Mineral Processing Company Ltd and the Shaanxi Mining Ghana Company Ltd for failure to file Statement of Defence on time to Statement of Claim lodged against them by the Chief of Namoalug and four elders. The penalised Defendants were expected ...