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Ghana is to pay some $750 being cost awarded against the country by the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice wasting the time of the judicial body in a case filed against the Government of Ghana by Transparency International (GI), Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), and the Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition (GACC) in connection with the botched Agyapa deal. The suit was filed ...

Ghana Black Stars’ abysmal showing in January’s African Cup of Nation has been viewed by many contemporaries as the worst performance in the history of the national team. O boy! It seems the aged have stopped watching football. I remember my first real opportunity to glance at my favourite team in action was in 2006 in Egypt when I was ...

All the members of the Council of State will now take 20% less of their allowances, as part of measures devised by the government to tackle the economic crisis afflicting Ghana. Speaking at the Jubilee House, the seat of the Presidency, the Chairman of the Council, Nana Otuo Serebour II, said, “We have decided to reduce our monthly allowances by ...

Ghana striker Jordan Ayew will play against Nigeria in the 2022 World Cup playoff after testing negative for coronavirus. The Crystal Palace man will join the Black Stars in Kumasi to continue their preparations for the first meeting at the Baba Yara Stadium. “Jordan Ayew has tested negative for Covid and will join the team later this week in Kumasi ...

The incessant calls on Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia to speak on the economic crisis show how confident Ghanaians are in his ability to confront the difficulties and resolve them, his spokesperson Dr Gideon Boako has said. He told Accra-based Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen political show on Tuesday, March 22, 2022: “These calls on the Vice-President to talk about the economy is ...

The National Communication Officer for NDC, Sammy Gyamfi, has stated that the current state of Ghana’s economy cannot be used to access any form of loan facility. Speaking on GHOneTV Tuesday, the Communication Officer disclosed that the current administration has mismanaged the economy which has contributed to the hardship in the country. “An economy which has a debt to GDP ...

The Ministry of Communication and Digitalisation has extended the Sim Card re-registration exercise to 31st July 2022. A statement signed by Ursula Owusu Ekuful on Tuesday, March 22, 2022, stated that many Ghanaians were yet to acquire their Ghana Card, which is the sole identification card for the purpose of the registration and made it difficult for them to complete ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said his government is not unable to tackle the economic crisis buffeting Ghana currently. Addressing a meeting with the Council of State at the Jubilee House on Tuesday, 22 March 2022, Mr Akufo-Addo said: “It is no secret that our economy is going through difficult times”. “It is also no secret that we are not alone ...

The Bank of Ghana has said its business and consumer confidence surveys conducted in February 2022, revealed “a softening of sentiments with business confidence declining by a greater extent”. It said while consumer confidence dipped by 0.7 percentage points, business confidence declined by 9.6 percentage points. The central bank Governor Dr Ernest Addison said at the Monetary Policy Committee’s 105th ...

Deputy Ranking Member on the Education Committee of Parliament, Dr. Clement Apaak, believes former President John Dramani Mahama has been vindicated by the government’s likely decision to review the flagship policy, Free Senior High School (SHS). To him, though it is not too late, it has been long overdue since the policy is a good one, except that it has ...