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The Catholic Church has appointed Most Reverend Gabriel Charles Palmer-Buckle as the new Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Cape Coast. This was contained in a release by His Excellency Most Rev. Jean Marie Speich, the Apostolic Nuncio. The release said: “His Holiness Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of His Grace Archbishop Mathias Nketsiah of Cape Coast”, hence the new ...

Ghana sold $2 billion worth of dual-tranche Eurobonds with 10- and 30-year maturities on Thursday and it will pay issuer-desired yields, government and transaction sources said. The West African sovereign sold $1 billion each of the 10-year notes maturing in 2029 and a 30-year with 2049 maturity at 7.625 percent and 8.625 percent, respectively. It set guidance for the May ...

Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko has expressed satisfaction with the way his uncle, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is managing the country. According to him, Nana Akufo-Addo is not only fixing the mess left behind by the erstwhile Mahama administration but also growing the economy to create jobs and prosperity. Mr Otchere-Darko’s comment comes after government successfully sold $2 billion worth of ...

Member of Parliament for North Tongu in the Volta Region and a former deputy minister for Education, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa says there will be revolt if President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo dares rename the University of Ghana after his uncle, JB Danquah. He says history would have been rewritten by the President. Speaking on Okay FM’s ‘Ade Akye Abia’ programme, ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Oquaye has categorically stated that he will resign if he is ever presented with a bill that would legalise homosexuality in the country. The Speaker has on several occasions stated that Ghana will never legalise homosexuality as long as he remains Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament. In a recorded interview with Paul Adom Otchere for ...

Two persons have been arrested by the Kumasi police in connection with the gruesome murder of a final year student of Osei Kyeretwie Senior High School, Wednesday night. The suspects, whose identities are yet to be established, are suspected to be part of a gang of armed men who attacked the school and reportedly stabbed 19-year-old Godfred Arthur, twice in ...

The Tramadol drug apparently is not only abused by ‘boys boys’ who take it to feel high or for their various chilling and or sexual escapades. Some women also are using it on their husbands to pursue their ‘schemes’ on the blind side of the other. The call on regulatory bodies and other stakeholders to properly regulate the use of ...

The National Peace Council has denied that the statutory institution withheld the catalogue of challenges facing it until there was a change of government. Reacting to an editorial in the DAILY GUIDE, the council stated that ‘the Council under the Chairmanship of Rev Asante had put the same issues to the former government. Indeed it was after one of such ...

Ace Broadcaster, Kwami Sefa Kayi, has issued a stern warning to politicians who intend on fanning the current feud between the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II and some members of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) to their advantage. According to the host of PeaceFM’s political talk show, the citizenry will not sit down and allow politicians use tribal sentiments ...

Ghana has placed 5th in Africa and 95th in the world among 168 countries for its general quality of nationality, according to the latest Kochenov Quality of Nationality Index (QNI) by Henley& Partners. The general quality of nationality includes travel freedom, settlement freedom and external value of its nationality. This summarises the quality of life and opportunities for personal growth ...