President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced that the Kumasi campus of the University of Education will become an autonomous institution under the name, University of Skills and Entrepreneurial Development. During a sod-cutting ceremony at the school for the construction of a Technical Examination Unit at the College of Technology …
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ECG, NEDCo & VALCO debt to GRIDCo hit ¢814 million
The Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) has for three years running recorded losses, with a net loss of 114.3 million cedis last year. According to GRIDCo, the Volta Aluminum Company Limited (VALCO) owes it 30-million dollars while ECG and NEDCo also owed about 607 million cedis and 177 million cedis …
Read More »Money launderers mostly use West Africa to get to Europe – BoG
Most money launderers around the world use West Africa (WA) as their entry point into Europe, Naa Welbeck Anuonyam, an Official at the Financial Stability Department of the Bank of Ghana, has said To that end, she said Ghana is taking the fight against money laundering seriously due to the …
Read More »Market women were consulted on new GH¢200 notes – BoG
A number of agencies and market women were consulted by officials of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) for their inputs into the decision that went into the introduction of the GH¢200 and GH¢100 notes, Mr Phillip Ottoo, Director of Research at the BoG, has revealed. Speaking at a training workshop …
Read More »No child will be denied SHS education by reason of poverty – Akufo-Addo
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called on Ghanaians not to give the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) mandate in the 2020 general elections to come and cancel the free SHS policy. Nana Akufo-Addo said the NDC wants to cancel the policy under the disguise of reviewing but reiterated …
Read More »VIDEO: Patients queue in ambulances at Korle-Bu due to ‘no bed’ syndrome
A record overcrowding at the Accident and Emergency Centre (A&E) of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra Saturday forced authorities to keep patients requiring emergency healthcare in ambulances for hours. Patients who arrived in ambulances from across the country with different trauma cases could not get beds at the A&E …
Read More »Ghana Health Service prepares to fight CSM
The Public Health Unit of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in the Upper East Region has engaged its counterparts from Togo and Burkina Faso in a cross-border meeting to share information on diseases of epidemic potential among the three countries. Dr Josephat Nyuzaghl, the Upper East Regional Deputy Director in …
Read More »I won’t pay ¢10,000 cost Supreme Court slapped on me – Akua Donkor
Leader of Ghana Freedom Party (GFP), Madam Akua Donkor says she will not pay the 10,000-cedi cost awarded against her by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court in dismissing Akua Donkor’s suit against President Nana Akufo-Addo and vice president Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on November 27 asked the politician-cum-farmer to pay …
Read More »Phase 1 and 2 of VW car assembling plant commences in 2020
German Ambassador to Ghana, Christoph Retzlaff has confirmed that the German car manufacturer, Volkswagen (VW) will from early 2020 commence the first phase for the establishment of an assembling car plant in Ghana. According to him, the second phase of the assembling plant will also be established at new premises …
Read More »Black Friday shopping experience hugely patronised in Ghana
Shoppers in Ghana and across the world have yet again participated in one of the world’s exciting shopping experiences. The Black Friday usually offers shoppers outrageous reduction in prices on all kinds of items. Although not a very common experience in Ghana, the day is gradually gaining recognition. Citi Business …
Read More »COCOBOD trial: Key State witness rejects A-G’s fertilizer exhibit
The ongoing trial of former COCOBOD Chief Executive, Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni and businessman, Seidu Agongo, on Wednesday recorded another shocking moment with the Attorney General’s third prosecution witness rejecting the state’s most vital exhibit; the powdered lithovit foliar fertilizer entered into evidence last year. The exhibit is at the …
Read More »PDS weighs legal options against GoG over deal termination
Power Distribution Services Limited (PDS) has said it is “carefully weighing its options” as far as its response to the Government of Ghana’s termination of its power distribution deal with the private firm, adding that it “continues to reserve all its rights under the transaction agreements and applicable laws to …
Read More »Don’t panic, we have enough dollars to stabilise the cedi – BOG to banks
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 …
Read More »Govt explains why it introduced Ghc100, Ghc200 Cedi notes
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 …
Read More »What you need to know about new GH¢100, GH¢200 banknotes, GH¢2 coin
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 …
Read More »What you need to know about new GH¢100, GH¢200 banknotes, GH¢2 coin
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 …
Read More »GUTA refuses engagement with Nigerian traders in Ghana
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 …
Read More »Bank of Ghana introduces GH¢100, GH¢200 notes and GH¢2 coin
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
Read More »No 1 Oxford Street Hotel and Suites celebrates opening with 25 Days of Christmas
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 …
Read More »300 Companies bid for 43 cocoa roads
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 …
Read More »About 7000 Caterers Under School Feeding Paid
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 …
Read More »GRIDCo to disconnect power to VALCo in December
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 …
Read More »VIDEO: Meet the dancing teacher who uses music and dance to teach his pupils
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 …
Read More »Ghana Water Company resumes supply to Sekondi-Takoradi after 10 days
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 …
Read More »Afrobarometer report on economic performance is good feedback – Government
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 …
Read More »Grant Us Our Freedom- UEW SRC of Kumasi and Mampong Campuses to Government
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 …
Read More »HIV infections on the rise, 19,000 new cases in 2018 – Report
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 …
Read More »Ghanaian nurses are very ungrateful – Fmr Health Ministry PRO
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 …
Read More »ECOWAS is dead – GUTA fumes
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 …
Read More »Dwamena Akenten SHS: Old Students give 20-seater toilet facility to Alma mater
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, …
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