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Ghana has over the years been a haven for many nationals largely due to its high level of hospitality and generosity. Citizens have lived and continue to live in peace and tranquillity despite all the ethnic and cultural differences that exist in the country. Aside from the differences based on these lines, political ideologies have also been another divisive factor ...

The country’s total debt stock has now hit GHS200 billion as at the end of May 2019. This was contained in the Bank of Ghana’s summary of financial and economic data that reviewed the health of the economy. Details of the debt numbers   The new debt stock figure means that since May 2018 the total debt stock has gone up by ...

A security analyst has dismissed fears over the seeming rising number of police officers who have resigned from the service to do politics. According to colonel retired Festus Aboagye, security officers must be allowed to follow whatever profession they want to be once they resign from the job. “We should allow anyone, whether police, fire service, Immigration, BNI, intelligence officer ...

The leader of the Economic Fighters League (Fighters), Mr Ernesto Yeboah, has questioned the priorities of the Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), Prof Stephen Adei as well as the general leadership of the country and asked them to channel their energies into creating a better future for the younger generation. “They have energy to slap the youth ...

Educationist Professor Stephen Adei has said Ghana is lagging behind as far as the provision of quality education for the citizenry is concerned. In an exclusive interview with CTV News (a subsidiary of Class Media Group) the former rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) observed that despite the high number of universities in the country, ...

Ghana and Cote D’Ivoire have lifted the suspension of cocoa sales for the 2020/2021 season, effective July 16. The decision was contained in a joint communique issued and signed by Mr. Joseph Boahen Aidoo, the Chief Executive of the Ghana Cocoa Board, and the Chief of Cote d’Ivoire’s Coffee and Cocoa Council, Yves Kone-Brahima. The two countries, at a two-day ...

Police at Adabraka in Accra have arrested the owner of Beetle Pub – a popular drinking spot located at Adabraka – for murder. Euripides Aryee was arrested on Tuesday night for allegedly shooting his friend to death who was later identified as Kwabena Boateng, 60, after having a meal with him. Mr. Boateng, alias Dada Boat, who was allegedly shot ...

The premises of the Koforidua District Magistrate Court ‘A’ was flooded by incensed residents when two suspected murderers of the 24-year-old businesswoman, Rita Afia Adusei Opokua made their maiden appearance in Court Tuesday, July 17, 2019. The two accused persons, Francis Torgbuiga, 36, and Iddi Mohammed alias Colombia, were remanded into Police Custody to reappear on July 30, 2019. This ...

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of I-ZAR Group, Rashida Saani Nasamu, is the Guest Speaker for the official launch of the Zongo Skills Project in Accra slated for next week Saturday 27th July 2019 at Nima. The project is an initiative expected to train and equip a target of 100,000 Out-Of-School youth from Zongo communities across Ghana in relevant skills ...

Vociferous activist of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Asare Obeng otherwise known as A Plus, has cautioned members of the party to hasten slowly in believing everything said by the Editor-In-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Jnr. Vociferous activist of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Asare Obeng otherwise known as A ...