A Ho District Magistrate Court has remanded into Police custody a 21-year-old footballer, Fenuku Frank Junior, the prime suspect in the Police recruitment fraud case. His plea was not taken. Police Inspector, Oscar Ayayi, prosecuting, narrated to the court presided over by Mr Akosa Amoanpong Yaw Agyare that the suspect …
Read More »FULL TEXT: Bank of Ghana’s annual report and financial statements for 2020
The Bank of Ghana has released its 2020 Annual Report and Financial Statements for the 2020 fiscal year. This comes after the central bank held its 102nd Monetary Policy Committee meeting to review economic developments of the country with an announcement of the policy rate decision to follow. In the Governor’s foreword …
Read More »PHOTOS: Kumasi Central Business District stinks as filth engulfs the city
The Ashanti Regional capital Kumasi is gradually losing the fight against poor sanitation as filth has engulfed almost every corner of the Central Business District of the metropolis. Piles of refuse according to some traders in the CBD of Kumasi have become a common sight at DR Mensah Market, Kejetia, …
Read More »BoG buys first gold in 60 years
For the first time in about 60 years, the Bank of Ghana (BoG) has purchased gold to augment its gold reserves and shore up the country’s foreign assets. The bank bought 280 kilogrammes of the precious metal this year under a historic gold purchase programme meant to double its gold …
Read More »Cedi set to end 2021 with the lowest depreciation since 1992
The Ghanaian Cedi continues to show remarkable strength against major currencies, especially the US Dollar, the latest report released by Bank of Ghana indicates. According to the latest Monetary Policy Report by the Bank of Ghana, the Cedi has shown a cumulative year-to-date depreciation of 1.7% for 2021. With this …
Read More »VIDEO: BoG to phase out GH¢1, GH¢2 notes soon
• The GH¢1 and GH¢2 notes will be replaced by its respective coins • This is because the notes, after widely being circulated, come back weak and torn • This was made known by the Governor of the Bank of Ghana Bank of Ghana Governor, Dr Ernest Addison, has disclosed that very soon, …
Read More »Govt mini cars for Okada riders ready
The Akufo-Addo led government has acquired some four-seater, fully air-conditioned mini vehicles to be used for the promised ‘Okada for Car’ initiative. Although the government is set to roll out the first phase of the initiative with some 100 vehicles, our checks at the Coastal Development Authority (CODA) indicate that …
Read More »Maglans Micro Credit Wins 2020 Best Microcredit Enterprise
A non-bank financial institution in Obuasi in the Ashanti Region, Maglans Micro- Credit, has won the Microcredit Enterprise of the Year 2020 at the second Ghana Credit Excellence Awards. The event—which came off at Tomreik Hotel in Accra on September 16, 2021,–was organised by the Chartered Institute of Credit Management-Ghana …
Read More »Ghana controls only 3.14% of global cocoa powder trade – GEPA
Ghana since 2016, has been controlling an average of three percent of global exports in the unsweetened cocoa powder trade, data from the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) has revealed. GEPA noted that Ghana’s global market share of the commodity has been fluctuating – recording 3.59 percent in 2016, 2.85 …
Read More »Tema ECG Loses Transformers to Thieves
Management of Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) in the Tema Region is expressing concern about rampant stealing of fuses in its transformers in the Tema Metropolis of the Greater Accra Region. The power distribution company is appealing to residents to be on the lookout for thieves moving to their various …
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