The record budget of Nigeria, Africa’s largest oil producer estimated at 34.6 billion dollars for the year 2020 will be revised downwards, according to the Ministry of Finance. This is due to the sharp drop in the price of crude oil. World oil demand is expected to contract this year for the first time in more than a decade, as ...

While several Ghanaians have doubted the country’s level of preparedness to face the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), a British cabin crew member has expressed satisfaction with the control mechanisms at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA). In a British radio interview replayed on Good Evening Ghana, the crew member insisted that even though Ghana is a third world country, the ...

Ghana coach Charles Kwabla Akonnor is set to drop some players invited for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations double header against Sudan due to the coronavirus scare. Most of these foreign-based players invited ply their trade in Europe which is currently hit by the virus with authorities forced to suspend games or played behind closed doors. According to health ...

A future government of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will prosecute Mavis Hawa Koomson, the Minister of Special Development Initiatives, for causing financial loss to the state as far as the one village-one dam (1V1D) programme is concerned. At a press conference organised at one of the dried-up dams at Nakpachie in the Northern Region, the Communication Director of the ...

Barely three weeks to his first game as Black Stars coach and Charles Kwablan Akonnor is yet to put pen to paper on a contract. The GFA after talks with the government settled on Akonnor as Stars coach following their decision not to renew of Kwasi Appiah’s contract. Expectations were that the government which adopted an uncompromising stance on their ...

The Volta Music Awards 2020 is scheduled for this Saturday, 14th March at the Ho Technical University auditorium. The night will see performances from some of the region’s finest performers including Sika Coleman, Selorm Razy, Kaira Borborbor Group, Tokz, Koran, BlazeBwoy, DKlass ft. The Six Ladies, Fiamor, KOSE , Planett Machette, ZyGee, Freeman Sorsis (Loyce Dance), Agbeshie, Keeny Ice, Camidoh, ...

Fans of Ebusua Dwarfs were stunned upon hearing that the woes of their beloved club in the ongoing Ghana Premier League stems from bickering over girlfriend snatching amongst the players. The Crabs are enduring one of their worst seasons in the Ghanaian top-flight after thirteen round of matches. The Cape Coast-based outfit are sitting 16th place on the league standings ...

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has taken disciplinary action against its National Secretary Murtala Mohammed for suggesting that the party supports the compilation of a new voters register. Murtala Mohammed is reported to have attacked Imani Africa’s Franklin Cudjoe for kicking against the new register adding that the PPP supports the EC in its quest to compile the new register ...

The Coronavirus is putting the world’s economy under severe strain and the consequences are already being seen in oil production. The benchmark barrel of North Sea Brent crude oil plunged heavily in Asia, losing nearly 25% to $33.29 per barrel. For experts, this is a loss of nearly 50% since January 1. It’s a concern in oil-producing African countries. Many ...

Over four hundred polling station executives of the ruling New Patriotic Party in the Akropong Constituency of the Eastern Region are to petition the National Executives of the Party over the disqualification of Philip Addison and William Agyei Twumasi from the Parliamentary primaries leaving the incumbent Member of Parliament Nana Ama Dokua Asiamah to go unopposed. The two were part ...