GENERAL NEWS

Moody’s Investors Service (Moody’s) on Friday, February 4 downgraded Ghana’s long-term issuer and senior unsecured debt ratings to Caa1 from B3 and changed the outlook to stable from negative. It said the new rating of the country’s economy reflects the woes Ghana is facing in fixing its liquidity and debt …

The embattled Metropolitan Chief Executive for Sekondi-Takoradi, Mr Abdul-Mumin Issah, has said the truth about his recent heated exchange with a police officer that was captured on camera, for which he has been suspended from office by President Nana Akufo-Addo and also facing court charges, will eventually come out. In …

An ex-convict, Kwame Asante, who claims to have survived attempts to poison him while in prison narrates how an inmate serving one hundred and sixty-four years at the Ankanful Maximum Security Prison, Atta Ayi, led a group known as “Black Coat’ to plot to kill him. According to Asante, the …

The Minister of Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako-Attah, has told parliament that the combined cost of the Kwame Nkrumah Circle interchange (Circle Dubai) and Ring Road flyover projects was GH¢268,159,470.20. According to him, the two projects were together known as the Kwame Nkrumah Circle Interchange. He said while the construction of …

Onua FM/TV presenter, Captain Smart, had reiterated his long-held position that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is corrupt and that was the main reason he cannot fight corruption. The Onua Maakye presenter went on a tirade during the February 4, 2022 edition of his show to call out corruption in …

As announced by the Welfare Sub-Committee of the Apeate Disaster Relief Committee, thirteen deceased persons have been identified by their families on 04/02/22. “No other report has been received on any missing bodies,” a statement signed by Dr. Isaac Dasmani, Committee Chairman, said. The statement added, “We extend our condolences …

A first year student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology University (KNUST) is feared dead after a private vehicle run into a number of students at Ayeduase close to the KNUST campus. According to eyewitnesses, the speeding vehicle skidded-off the road, crashed into some structures and run into …

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has launched the e-Travel Card to facilitate the cashless disbursement of travel allowance and other payments for local and foreign trips of public officials. Dr Bawumia speaking at the launch in Accra on Friday, 4 February 2022 said since independence, public officials are provided cash …

Fire officers have for the past two hours been making frantic efforts to put out a fire that has gutted some grocery shops at Adum in the Central Business District of the Ashanti Region. “Fire officers are struggling to douse the flame. The heavy vehicular traffic in the area is …

Paul Adom-Otchere, the host of Good Evening Ghana, has not been friendly with Sulemana Braimah and ‘The Fourth Estate’ team especially over an investigation into the Lighthouse Chapel International. In the wake of that exposé, the Board Chairman of the Ghana Airport Company Limited, GACL, spent the entire editorial segment of his …