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Ghana will end the year 2021 with an overall GDP of between 3.9% and 4.9%, Databank Research has said. “We expect the increased utilisation of spare production capacity to sustain the recovery in the manufacturing and trade sub-sectors”, the report said, adding: “We, however, view the rising cost of production occasioned by the tax hikes, transport fare hikes, and higher ...

A student of the Kumasi Girls SHS Ama (not her real name) has shared a story of starvation at the school over the past week. Students of St Louis and Kumasi Girls SHS went on rampage on Monday after which a joint police-military team went to the schools to calm the situation. According to Ama, there was inadequate food to ...

A public interest organisation, Social Democracy and Development Dialogue Forum – Africa (SDDDF-Africa), has petitioned the Privileges Committee of Parliament over the “unparliamentary” conduct of Assin Central MP Kennedy Agyapong. The organisation said the MP has gained exceeding notoriety for conducts that infringe parliamentary privileges and, so, must not be treated as a first-time offender appearing before the privileges committee ...

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has denied reports that its officers assaulted some students who were protesting over the cancellation of their mid-term break by the Ghana Education. The officers were reportedly called into a protest by students of St. Louis SHS and Kumasi Girls who were angry over the midterm cancellation. Some media accounts suggest a combined team of ...

AshantiGold Sporting Director Kwasi Darlington has said that Inter Allies defender Hashmin Musah should be investigated for scoring the two own goals in the Ghana Premier League game on Sunday. The AshantiGold-Inter Allies game has raised suspicions of match-fixing after the game ended 7-1 with some bizarre goals scored in that game. Inter Allies defender Hashmin Musah who came from ...

The Kumasi Metropolis has recorded over 200 cases of the Delta variant of the coronavirus with 10 mortalities occurring at different centres from 1 July to 13 July 2021. This was disclosed by the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) in a statement dated today, Monday, 19 July 2021 signed by the PRO Henrietta A.K Aboagye. The upsurge of the new cases ...

Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has admitted that he erred by not seeking parliamentary approval before contracting a private individual for procurement of Sputnik-V vaccines from Russia to vaccinate Ghanaians against the coronavirus. Mr Agyeman-Manu said this before the nine-member parliamentary committee probing the government’s contract to purchase Sputnik V vaccines at its second public hearing today, Monday, 19 July 2021. ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has provided the impetus for a stronger partnership between India and Africa with potential benefits to both as they build back sustainably after the crisis, experts attending the 16th CII-Exim Bank Digital Conclave on India-Africa Project Partnership(link is external) affirmed. Speaking at the virtual event’s opening, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, India External Affairs Minister said the two sides must ...

Thousands of Ghanaian youth have besieged the El-wak sports stadium with their credentials hoping to be recruited into the Ghana Armed Forces. The long queue started at dawn on Monday, 19 July 2021. The applicants, made up of mostly unemployed youth are being taken through various stages including screening, body and height check. The huge number of applicants had caused ...

Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has charged Ghanaians to jealously guard Ghana’s peace and refrain from acts that threaten the stability of the country. Speaking at the Millennium Excellence Awards over the weekend, Otumfuo noted that the current politically polarized nature of the country is a worrying situation that can ignite unrest at the least provocation. He, thus, urged all ...