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Foreign Affairs Minister-designate Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has indicated the country’s preparedness to start issuing chip-embedded passports by mid-2021. She was responding to a question posed by Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu when she appeared before the vetting committee on Thursday, February 11, 2021. According to her, preparations were far advanced and …

Health Minister-designate, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu on Wednesday admitted the delay in payment of allowances to frontline health workers, and gave the assurance that they would be paid by close of this week. Attributing delay to inconsistent data, the Minister-designate said he had tasked health facility managers to review the list of …

More than 15,000 direct and indirect jobs are currently being affected negatively due to the failure of Ghana and UK to sign a post-Brexit trade agreement that allows Ghanaian fruit producers’ tariff-free access to the UK market as exists under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). Ghana and UK failed to …

The fire had gutted parts of the Ghana Commercial Bank at Dzodze in the Volta Region of Ghana  The fire reportedly started around 6:45 pm on Monday evening, February 08, 2021, according to an eyewitness who spoke to My News Ghana By 7:20 pm, the fire had gone out of control …

Figures related to international tourism to Ghana showed a 69 percent decline in 2020, the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) has revealed. The authority explains the shortfall can been attributed to the adverse impact of the Coronavirus pandemic amid travel restrictions and lockdowns. Nelson Jones, the Acting Director of Public Affairs at the …

Ghana and the United Kingdom (UK) on Thursday February 4 finalised an agreement that will provide duty-free and quota-free access for Ghana to the UK market and preferential tariff reductions for UK exporters. Ghana’s Trade Minister Alan Kyerematen in a tweet said “I am pleased that we have finalised a new Interim …

Salary Of Ministers In Ghana – A minister is a politician who heads a ministry, making and implementing decisions on policies in conjunction with the other ministers. Thus being a minister is a very lucrative and prestigious profession. President Nana Akufo-Addo has submitted to Parliament for the approval, through the …

Budding Ghanaian striker Kwadwo Baah will sign for English Premier League side Manchester City at the end of the season. The 18-year-old reached an agreement with Pep Guardiola’s side on Monday. Baah’s contract with his current club Rochdale- in League One-expires at the end of the season. His pre-contract agreement …

Ghana is running out of fiscal space as its debt-to-GDP ratio reached 74% at the end of 2020. Latest economic and financial data released by the Central Bank put the country’s debt stock at GH¢286.9 billion. This figure is the highest in nearly four years, following early attempts to cushion …

Ghana has been ranked as one of the countries on the African continent that is heavily indebted to Asian superpower, China. China over the past few years has established itself as one of the world’s economic superpowers and as such the Asian country has become one of the biggest lenders …