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  Team Ghana have booked a place in the final of the men’s 4x100m relay at the 2022 World Athletics Championship in Oregon. The Ghanaian quartet finished third in heat 1, with a season-best time of 38.58s behind the USA (first) and United Kingdom (second). The quartet includes Sean Safo-Antwi, …

The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has cut the sod for work to begin on the construction of the first Inland marine port in the northern parts of Ghana and an accompanying Industrial Park at Debre in the Savannah Region. The multimodal transport corridor, known as the Trans-Volta Logistics Corridor, …

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has dispelled claims by some media and some members of the opposition NDC that she has contradicted Vice President Bawumia on the use of the Ghanacard as a travel document for returning Ghanaians. At the launch of the ePharmacy platform on Monday, …

Only Ghanaian candidates are left to write the West African Senior High School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), scheduled from August 1 to September 27, 2022. This is because the other four-member countries of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) — Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and The Gambia — have returned to …

A report on corruption and bribery in Ghana has disclosed that more than 17.4 million bribes were paid to public officials in 2021. The maiden national survey, titled: “Corruption in Ghana – people’s experiences and views” was put together by the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice, in partnership …

latest survey conducted by the Ghana Statistical Service with other stakeholders in the fight against corruption has ranked the Ghana Police Service as the most corrupt institution among 23 other institutions sampled. This was revealed in a research dubbed; corruption in Ghana, Peoples Experiences and View. The aim of the …

Ghana has been ranked second most peaceful country in the sub-Saharan Africa region only behind the island nation of Mauritius. This is according to the 2022 edition of the Global Peace Index, GPI, report released this week. The country’s overall score was 1.759 as compared to 1.715 in 2021, the …

Managing Editor of Insight Newspaper, Kwasi Pratt Jnr, has bemoaned the rate at which Ghana imports products that can easily be produced in Ghana. Speaking to the host of Atinka FM’s AM Drive Kaakyire Ofori Ayim, Kwesi Pratt Jnr revealed how disheartening it is to know that Ghana is the third largest …

The Social Security and National Insurance Scheme (SSNIT) has merged the identity of a total of more than 1.9 million beneficiaries to the National Identification Card (Ghana Card), Mr. Joseph Poku, the Chief Actuary at SSNIT, has disclosed. Mr. Poku said the merger was done between June 28, 2021, to …

Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) is to step up the promotion of Ghanaian Chocolates in a move to harness the untapped potential of the industry. GEPA has identified chocolates and the entire processed cocoa value chain as one of the priority products in the National Export Development Strategy (NEDS). Dr …