The Sissala West District Chief Executive (DCE), Mrs. Ayisha Baton Hor has assured locals that there is no cause for alarm regarding security. About 800 Burkinabes are seeking refuge in seven communities in the Sissala West district of the Upper West region. The development comes after unknown persons attacked their …

Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter is a man of few words who can’t hide his love for everything Ghanaian. Earlier this week, the American Internet entrepreneur announced that he was revisiting Ghana after his last experience. “Finally back in Ghana,” he tweeted on December 5. Although …

The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has waded into the on-going debate on the government’s impending Debt Exchange Program set to be rolled out. According to the teachers, they are interested stakeholders on the Domestic Bond Market, running on the Teachers Fund with its subsidiaries, the Tier-3 Pension Scheme …

Many people faces difficulties before achieving success in life, but it depends on how to overcome the challenges. A young woman believed to be in her 30s has shared her sad ordeal over the struggles she went through after her mother died leaving behind a newborn baby. The lady narrated …

Chris Ofikulu   United Bank for Africa (UBA) Ghana has officially opened its latest branch to serve customers and the banking public throughout Ashaiman and its environs. The opening ceremony was held on Wednesday, 30th November, 2022.   Speaking at the official opening, the Managing Director of UBA Ghana, Chris …

Following Brazil’s 2022 World Cup match against South Korea on Monday, Cameroon Football Federation chief, Samuel Eto’o was captured in a “violent altercation” with a spectator. A viral video appeared to capture Eto’o, 41, kneeing a spectator in the face during the World Cup in Qatar. The incident happened outside …

Traditional leaders at Adrobaa, a farming community in the Tano North Municipal of the Ahafo Region have performed rituals to pacify the land after an accident which claimed the lives of five pupils. The Nananom, led by Adrobaahene, Nana Odiasempa Boadu and Nana Adwoa Dum II, the Queenmother in the area, …

Deputy Minister of Finance, John Kumah, has underscored the enormity of the economic challenge that government is currently faced with and has thus urged institutional bondholders to sign on to the current domestic debt exchange proposed by government. Kumah told Joy FM on Tuesday, December 6; that the consequences for …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, has given the assurance that government willoperationalise the National HIV and AIDS Fund to increase domestic resource mobilisation to improve care. The President gave the assurance following calls to re-activate the Fund to increase domestic resource mobilisation due to the recent upsurge in new …

Deputy Finance Minister, Dr John Kumah, has said that the current hardship in the country might be because the government over-relied on borrowing to run the economy. According to him, the government could have considered other alternatives to financing its projects and programmes aside from borrowing. “Maybe the levels of …

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has announced an upgrade to the GH¢1 coin with some enhanced security features. “The upgraded GH¢1 coin is bi-metallic with an outer gold and inner silver. The coin has a pronounced rough edge and incorporates a latent image, which appears in a rectangular form below …

According to healthline Do you know there are some fruits and vegetables that taste better when you remove the peels before eating them? The reason for this is because while the peels of many fruits and vegetables are completely safe to eat, the peels of others might introduce hazardous bacteria …

The Attorney-General, Godfred Yeboah Dame has in a legal opinion indicated that a mandatory Debt Exchange programme would be illegal. Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta on Monday announced domestic bondholders with the exception of Treasury bill holders will be affected by the debt exchange program. Per the arrangement, bondholders will get 0% interest …

International ratings agency, Moody’s has downgraded GCB Bank PLC’s (GCB Bank) global long-term local currency deposit ratings to Caa3 from Caa2. Moody’s investors also downgraded the bank’s long-term foreign currency deposit ratings to Ca from Caa2, its long-term Counterparty Risk Ratings (CRRs) to Caa3 from Caa2, its long-term Counterparty Risk …

Even though there was violence everywhere in the 1980s and 1990s, armed robberies in Ghana were extremely rare. Although I drove a cab and a trotro in Accra and Cape Coast, I never encountered any armed robbers there. It was after traveling from Ghana to Nigeria in the early 1980s, …

    The theme for this year’s celebration was “Accelerating Agricultural Development Through Value Addition”. This was celebrated on 2nd December 2022 in Koforidua in the Eastern regional capital.   Kingdom Exim Ghana Limited, a mother company of the kingdom Exim group, the leading West African based quality focused Agro …

The minority has threatened to disapprove the 2023 budget estimates, and debt restructuring until some five conditions are met by government. According to Haruna Iddrisu, they will not accept the debt restructuring programme announced by the finance minister. This comes after Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta announced that Ghana is embarking …

“Urinating during intercourse” is a “very widespread health problem” that “affects many people (primarily women) during intercourse,” according to Healthline. Male bodies have a natural defence mechanism that makes it difficult to urinate during a hard-on, making this a more common issue among women. In this post, I want to …

Several Ghanaians have thronged their various financial institutions to withdraw their savings and investments to avoid losing both their principal and interests. This panic withdrawal is based on reports that some customers of Databank and Ecobank have lost hundreds of cedis on their investments which has to an extreme affected …

A NURSE revealed the thing that people can never tell she’s wearing under her scrubs. Jessica Birden, who goes by @jboss7691 on the app, told fans in a recent video that she wears a corset waist trainer while on the job, without being noticed. The nurse has a secret weapon …

Applicants seeking admissions into Colleges of Education in Ghana will from 2023 be expected to write an entrance exam. The exam will be based on two core subjects; Mathematics and English. The Chief Director at the Ministry of Education, Divine Ayidzoe, disclosed this at a conference on teacher training with stakeholders. Mr …

An aspirant for the National Executive Committee membership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Wonder Victor Kutor, is predicting that the party will be in political office for at least 16 years if it wins the 2024 general elections . He said there is no doubt the NDC will form the …

The Health Services Workers’ Union(HSWU) has vowed to resist any attempt by the government to touch the Pensions of its members. The General Secretary of the HSWU, Franklin Owusu Ansah, at a press conference held on Sunday said “If the government finds it so important to do the debt restructuring, …

Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta announced a Domestic Debt Exchange on December 4, 2022; with the view that details of the said programme will be presented today, December 5. One of three key points he put out in his four-minute address was the fact that there “There will be NO …

Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta has been announcing measures to be contained in Ghana’s Domestic Debt programme. Speaking at a press briefing today, December 4, 2022; he outlined different measures as relates to among others Treasury Bills, other domestic bonds etc. “Your T-bills are safe. Treasury bills are totally exempted …

Magdaline Awushi Bukudah   Healthcare professionals in the Volta Region, specifically the Central Tongu district, have recounted the positive impact the services of Zipline has had on healthcare delivery. This comes after about a year since the company began operations from the Anum center. The Anum distribution center of Zipline …

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has described the results of the 2022 batch of students who wrote the West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) as the best in the last eight years. According to President Akufo-Addo, “six (6) years on following the implementation of the …

The old terminal building at the recently inaugurated Sunyani Airport is to be remodeled and expanded to accommodate the expected increase in passenger throughput. The facility was officially inaugurated on Wednesday, August 3, 2022, after a seven-year closure to allow for an extensive renovation of the domestic airport sited in …

Flatulence is most commonly caused by colds and ulcers. However, poor portion control and indiscriminate eating can also cause flatulence. Your stomach may feel bloated or full of gas due to the fermentation of foods that take a long time to process. The remaining food will eventually cause a lot …

The human body keeps reacting in some way or the other depending upon various internal and external factors. Sometimes, you fall sick and that’s because maybe your body is fighting some unwanted foreign elements or viruses. However, sometimes there are issues that may not be serious or need immediate attention, …