The Director of Programmes at the Ghana Integrity Initiative has revealed that, the Ghana Immigration Service is highly perceived as corrupt. According to Mrs. Mary Awelana Addah, the service consistently competes with other revenue mobilising organisations for the top five spots in perceived corrupt ranking indexes. “We realised from the …

The Bank of Ghana has revealed that the number of registered internet banking customers has reduced. According to the central bank, the number fell by 12.9 per cent from 936,965 in 2017 to 815,904 in 2018. The BoG made these observations in the Payment Systems Oversight Annual Report, 2018 “Number …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says his Government, over the course of the last two and a half years in office, has succeeded in restoring fiscal discipline in the management of the economy, resulting in the macroeconomic indices pointing in the right direction. According to President Akufo-Addo, the favourable macroeconomic …

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, marked the Akwasidae Festival for Asanteman in London last Sunday. The King who is on a short visit to the United Kingdom (UK) marked the festive occasion in grand style. Otumfuo arrived at the durbar grounds to a rapturous applause from the Ghanaian community …

The Chief Justice, Her Ladyship Justice Sophia Akuffo, has commissioned a new District Magistrate Court in Wulensi in the Nanumba South District of the Northern Region. The edifice, which is the first of its kind in the district, was built with the District Development Facility of the assembly. Addressing a …

The female student of Federal University of Technology Akure Ondo State, left with grievious injuries by policemen, has revealed that she was assaulted for refusing to have sex with the security operatives. The student identified as Sheba Ogbu, said the incident happened at about 9:30pm along Oyemekun Road in Akure on …

Award-winning Ghanaian dancehall musician Shatta Wale has landed on the soil of the United States of America. Although we know he is not there for a vacation, as he always puts across that he does not travel just for fun and taking pictures, many don’t know what compelled the ‘Gringo’ …

Ghana’s debut 20-year bond issued was not a failed or under-subscribed offering but a fairly priced offering that has established another data point along government’s yield curve, the Finance Ministry has said. In a press statement issued on Wednesday, the government said although the amount received in bids was less than the …

The government has asked the Queen to suspend Parliament just days after MPs return to work in September – and only a few weeks before the Brexit deadline. Boris Johnson said a Queen’s Speech would take place after the suspension, on 14 October, to outline his “very exciting agenda”. But …

A daughter of Dr Kofi Abrefa Busia, Nana Frema Busia, has described President Akufo-Addo as being ungrateful to her father who as a prime minister bifurcated his power and ceded a ceremonial presidency to Edward Akufo-Addo, the President’s father on a “silver platter” just to ensure there is peace in …