The Bank of Ghana, BOG has asked market players not to panic because they have adequate dollars to stabilize the cedi. The BOG gave the assurance in a circular issued to all commercial banks in the country. According to Joy FM’s report, the circular could be seen as the fresh …

The Governor of the Central Bank of Ghana, Dr Ernest Addison has explained the rationale behind government’s policy decision to introduce new Bank notes of Ghc100, Ghc200 and 2Ghc coin. Addressing a presser covered by MyNewsGH.com, the Governor said “twelve years after the redenomination exercise, sustained periods of high inflation …

The Bank of Ghana on Friday November 29, 2019, introduced two new high denominations. They are the GH¢ 100 and GH¢ 200 Banknotes. The Central Bank also introduced a new GH¢ 2 coin. Why The New Notes? According to the Central Bank, high levels of inflation currency depreciation in the …

The Bank of Ghana on Friday November 29, 2019, introduced two new high denominations. They are the GH¢ 100 and GH¢ 200 Banknotes. The Central Bank also introduced a new GH¢ 2 coin. Why The New Notes? According to the Central Bank, high levels of inflation currency depreciation in the …

The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) has expressed its unpreparedness to engage with Nigerian traders in Ghana following the name-calling it has been subjected to by the latter. GUTA said members of the Nigerian Traders Association, Ghana (NUTAG) have at every opportunity hurled insults at them over their insistence …

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has introduced new higher denominations. They include a GH¢ 100 and GH¢ 200 banknotes. It has also introduced a GH¢ 2 coin. Governor of the Central Bank, Dr. Ernest Addison, launched the new notes and coin on Friday, November 29, 2019. BY Melvin Tarlue

No 1 Oxford Street Hotel and Suites is a 5 star luxury hotel and suites, offering a hospitality experience unlike any other found in the city of Accra. To celebrate the upcoming soft opening, they will be giving away a gift every day from the 1st to the 25th December …

Three hundred construction companies have submitted bids to the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) for the construction and rehabilitation of roads in cocoa growing communities nationwide. The firms are competing to be selected as contractors for the first phase of the cocoa road projects, which resumed this year after it was …

Close to 7,000 caterers who cocked under the Ghana School Feeding Programme for the third term of the 2018/19 academic year have been paid, Gender, Children and Social Protection Minister, Mrs. Cynthia Morrison has confirmed. “So everyone is expected to receive payment today, [Thursday November 28] as has been confirmed …

The Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) on Thursday announced that it will disconnect power to the Volta Aluminum Company Limited (VALCO) on December 30 because of a $30million debt owed it. The management of the power transmission company said VALCO’s debt and that of Electricity Company of Ghana, and Northern …

Percy Sackey is a teacher at the Obo Presby School in the Kwahu Hills. He uses music and dance to teach and motivate his pupils at the school. Joy News’ Justice Baidoo visited the school to learn more about the teacher’s unconventional methods of teaching. He says encouraging his students …

The Western Region Office of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) has resumed water supply to the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis from its Daboase Headworks in the Wassa East District after ten days of cut in supply. The cut in water supply was as a result of a cable blast, which affected …

The government says it is encouraged by the new Afrobarometer report which says more Ghanaians believe that the country is “moving in the wrong direction” than two years ago. Speaking on Eyewitness News, a Deputy Information Minister, Pius Hadzide said the report points “to the fact that the people do …

The Students’ Representative Council of University of Education Winneba, Kumasi and Mampong Campuses whose core mandate is to promote the general welfare and interest of students, coordinating the social, cultural, intellectual and recreational activities of the students in the University have appealed to the government of the day to give …

The Ghana AIDS Commission has announced a surge in the number of persons who are contracting HIV infections in Ghana. In a statement released to the Community through the churches, mosques and the media, ahead of World AIDS Day slated for December 1, 2019, the commission said 19,931 new HIV …

Robert Cudjoe, the immediate past Public Relations Officer for the Ministry of Health, has thrown a jab at Ghanaian unemployed nurses and midwives, labelling them as ungrateful beings. Responding to calls made by the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association, urging government to recruit 40,000 nurses and midwives within the …

The Ghana Union Traders Association (GUTA) has expressed disappointment in the failure of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to enforce trade protocols “ECOWAS is dead, we don’t have ECOWAS,” GUTA National Organizer Clement Boateng declared as a retail trade feud between Ghanaian traders and other West African …

Old students of Dwamena Akenten Senior High School at Offinso in the Offinso South district of the Ashanti region has averted what could have been a sanitation crisis in the school with the building an ultra modern 20-seater toilet facility. The facility, which was at the cost of GHC70, 000, …

About 400 unemployed graduate teachers have appealed to the government and the Education Ministry to have them immediately posted. According to them, despite graduating from the various Colleges of Education, they are yet to be posted to the various senior high schools in the country. President of the coalition of …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has procured four hundred thousand (400,000) sets of questions and answer booklets from the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) for distribution to the first batch of beneficiaries of the Free Senior High School policy preparing to write their final examination April next year. The exams …

Some stakeholders in the cocoa value chain have asked government to pay critical attention to the deplorable roads in many cocoa roads as they impact negatively on the full benefits the country derives from the cash crop. They are thus asking government to urgently fix such roads to prevent the …

The Auditor-General, Mr. Daniel Yaw Domelevo, has discovered $ 3.4b in unpaid penalties relating to the Petroleum Holding Fund. The latest report on the management of petroleum funds for the year ending December 2017, found that a total amount of US$220m was outstanding. Of the total amount, US$219 million represents …

Ghana has learnt a lot of lessons in mining which will help the country to forestall the “Obuasi situation” in Nyinahin where bauxite would be mined, Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said. “After almost 100 years of mining gold, we have learnt some hard lessons”, Dr Bawumia said at a …

Ghana’s total debt stock has hit GHS208.6 billion, according to new data from the Bank of Ghana. The stock rose by GHS3.1 billion between July and September. Per the central bank’s Summary of Economic and Financial Data, the current debt stock represents 60.3 per cent of Ghana’s GDP. A total …

The world has seen a few true geniuses over the course of time. Some of the most well-known brains are, of course, Isaac newton, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. Could a third emerge from today’s young generation of thinkers? Clearly, a good memory is important for children to learn and …

The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE), in its aspirations to transform into an efficient, world class platform for investments and raising capital, has signed and exchanged a Memorandum of Understanding with the Singapore Cooperation Enterprise (SCE). SCE, an agency of the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Foreign …

Citi FM and Citi TV’s campaign to get Ghanaians to consume more local rice to stimulate economic growth continues to get the backing of relevant personalities and agencies both in the public and private sectors. The latest to join in the campaign is the John Agyekum Kufuor Foundation, which is …

Vice President of the Greater Accra Poultry Farmers Association, Michael Ampem has appealed to government to subsidise the cost of feed to enable them increase production of birds for the market. Experts in the poultry industry claim there is a shortfall in the number of birds required to meet local …

November 24th 2019 Celebrated Highlife musician Jamson who became Physically challenged after getting his first massive hit song 20 years ago said he hasn’t stopped doing music. Speaking to some selected Bloggers at the just ended media after attending the just-ended 2019 3 G awards in the United States of …

The issue of which Ministry has the responsibility to issue visas in the country came up for discussion during yesterday’s sitting of Parliament, with some members expressing divergent views. The discussion revealed what was described as confusion amongst the members on the issuance of visas. Speaking on the matter, the …