Five English-speaking West African countries and Guinea have criticised a move to change the name of the regional currency from CFA franc to the eco. The West African Economic and Monetary Union, made up of eight former French colonies and former Portuguese colony Guinea Bissau, said in December that it …

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has defended the country’s armed forces after it admitted shooting down a passenger plane by mistake. He said the Revolutionary Guard – the elite unit responsible for the disaster – “maintained the security” of Iran. Widespread protests and criticism from abroad have put growing …

Government is expected to deploy about 60 soldiers to prevent the Oda Forest Reserve from further degradation resulting from alleged illegal gold mining activities by some supposed Chinese nationals. Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh, made this known to journalists at a ‘galamsey’ site inside the Oda Forest …

The embattled Chief Executive Officer of defunct Beige Bank Mike Nyinaku has been admitted at the Police Hospital in Accra after he fell ill Thursday, police prosecutors have told the court hearing his prosecution. Mr. Nyinaku is being prosecuted by the state over his role in the collapse of the …

President Akufo-Addo has left Accra on Friday to attend the UK-Africa Investment Summit being held in London, in the United Kingdom. The UK-Africa Investment Summit, being hosted by British Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. Boris Johnson, MP, on Monday, 20th January, will bring together “businesses, governments and international institutions to showcase …

One week celebration of 45-year-old policewoman, Insp. Kate Abban who together with her three children lost their lives to a gas explosion at Ablekuma Fanmilk, a suburb of Accra is underway. ACP David Eklu, Director-General of the Public Affairs Directorate of the Ghana Police Service together with other personnel and …

The government has completed the construction of 200 small dams under the One village, One dam (1V1D) initiative, the Minister of Special Development Initiatives, Ms Mavis Hawa Koomson, has announced. She said 570 dams would be constructed across the five regions of the north, as work on more than 100 …

A 22-year-old Level 300 student of the University of Cape Coast is in the grips of the Sekondi police for kidnapping an 18-year-old Senior High School student. The suspect, Simeon Cephas Andoh Dadzie, was said to have lured the girl from Sekondi to his hostel in Cape Coast and camped …

Bright Ashiagbor, 33, a native of Tegbi in the Volta Region is wanted by the Police for allegedly stealing building materials valued at GHc8,000. 00 belonging to Berock Ventures Limited, a building construction firm based at the Spintex Road in Accra. The suspect who was a storekeeper of Berock Ventures …

The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has set Monday, 20 January 2020 for the opening of nominations (sale of nomination forms) for parliamentary primaries in constituencies where the party has sitting Members of Parliament. The nominations will close on Thursday, 20 February 2020. An Aspiring Parliamentary Candidate (APC) according to …