Ghana’s debt stock has shot up to 236.1 billion cedis from 219.2 billion cedis for the first quarter of 2020, according to new figures by the Bank of Ghana. The increase means that Ghana has added 16.9 billion cedis between January to March of 2020. The figures contained in the Central Bank’s Summary of Economic and Financial Data represents an ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has alleged that the Electoral Commission and National Identification Authority are conspiring to suppress votes in the strongholds of the party. Addressing a news conference Thursday afternoon, National Chairman of the party Samuel Ofosu Ampofo alleged that the decision of the Electoral Commission to push for the Ghana Card, birth certificate and Passport as ...

Leading Accra-based private tertiary institution, Regent University College has seen one of its buildings been put up for auction. A generator, two cars and a bus belonging to the University have been auctioned as well. One of the cars is said to be owned by its Chancellor. The auctioning is believed to be in line with a court ruling and ...

A suspended New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary Aspirant for Nalerigu-Gambaga Constituency in the North East Region, Mr. Peter Wuni Baaga has given shocking details of how the party won the seat in 2004. According to him, he was the mastermind of the rigging that saw the current Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Hajia Alima Mahama to win the ...

122 new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Ghana shooting the national tally to 5,530, Director-General of the Ghana Health Service Dr. Badu Sarkodie has revealed. According to the Ghana Health Service, the recovery rate has also risen to 674. The death tally is still at 24, the GHS director said Thursday. Meanwhile, the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) and ...

A 98-year-old woman was reportedly discharged in Lagos today May 13, after recovering from Coronavirus. Lagos State Government on Wednesday announced that a 98-year-old woman has recovered from coronavirus after treatment at one of the state’s facilities. “Today, we discharged a 98-year-old woman, our oldest #COVID19 patient in Lagos,” Lagos State governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu tweeted. The 98-year-old woman, Sanwo-Olu said, ...

A nurse at the Tamale Teaching Hospital has been apprehended for flouting social distancing rules to organise a naming ceremony. The male nurse, Muniru Mohammed Saani, is said to have held the naming ceremony for his one-week-old baby on Wednesday. However, he was arrested at his home by some police officers while the ceremony was ongoing. Dailymailgh reports that the ...

Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT worker in Louisville, Ky., was shot in her bed after midnight on March 13 by three police officers serving a “no-knock warrant,” becoming another statistic in the long list of African-Americans killed at the hands of police. What makes the case unusual is that Taylor was a woman. And, of course, she was asleep. The ...

Kumawood actor, Yaw Adu, popularly known as Sunsum, has said being a star saved him from an armed robbery attack. The actor was speaking on Accra100.5FM’s Ayeeko Ayeeko Show on Monday, May 11, 2020. Describing who a star is in his own opinion, the actor told the show host, Nana Romeo that, “When a star is passing, people follow him ...

The Ministry of Information will hold another edition of its press briefing series to provide an update to citizens on the next mitigating measures in Ghana’s fight against the Coronavirus pandemic. The sharp spike in Ghana’s case count continues to spark a debate and concerns over whether the country has reached its ‘peak’ as earlier announced by the Ghana Health Service. However ...