The National Sports Authority (NSA) has commenced vetting for over 1,000 selected athletes, who are to benefit from the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) stimulus package following the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic. The exercise fixed at the Accra Sports Stadium is to verify the authenticity of the selected athletes by the various …

The Head of Communication for the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Mr Henry Asante Twum, has revealed that all players will be tested prior to the resumption of the Ghana Premier League in October. The 2019/2020 Premier League season, FA Cup, and other competitions, have been annulled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking …

Former President of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA), Bice Osei Kuffuor, popularly known as Obour, has joined forces with some leading members of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to rally support for the Nana Akufo-Addo government in the forthcoming December general elections. In June this year, Obour contested in the …

Every day, you burn calories when you move around, exercise, and go about your daily tasks. Your body even burns calories at rest, through basic functions like breathing, circulating blood, cell processes, amongst others. Another way to burn calories is through sexual activities. Burn some serious calories by undressing, kissing, …

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has hailed government’s industrialisation drive under its flagship One District One Factory intiative, as well as the banking sector clean up. In the EIU’s latest country report on Ghana in which it partly analysed the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on the Ghanaian economy and …

CRISIS TO RECOVERY STRENGTHENING ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA DURING COVID-19 SPEAKING NOTES FOR IMF WEBINAR DR. MAXWELL OPOKU-AFARI, FIRST DEPUTY GOVERNOR, BANK OF GHANA JULY 22, 2020 1. Introduction The global economy is going through extraordinary times, requiring even more exceptional responses. Policy response has been swift and decisive in …

A South African woman danced out of a hospital in the Western Cape Province with medical staff at the Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH) clapping and cheering her on. 48-year-old Zuliswa Maqana was admitted to a district hospital on May 4 with severe virus symptoms. She went through 54-days in Intensive …

The former leader of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir is facing a trial in the capital Khartoum over a 1989 coup that brought him to power. Bashir is facing charges over the military coup in 1989 and could receive the death penalty if convicted. Following the 1989 coup, Bashir stayed in power …

Social media has been set ablaze, with Assin Central Member of Parliament, Kennedy Agyapong, topping the trends following news of a scratch on one of his vehicles, an Escalade, by a Metro Mass driver The said incident is said to have happened near the Kasoa toll booth. According to an eye …

At least 683 new COVID-19 infections have pushed Ghana’s case count to 29,672. Some 26,090 have recovered with the death toll still at 153. The number of active cases is therefore 3,429, according to the latest update from the Ghana Health Service. A geographical overview of the active cases shows …