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The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has acknowledged that Ghana’s relatively low cocoa pricing is one of the contributing factors to the increase in cocoa smuggling into neighbouring countries. This situation has led to significant financial losses to the country and the destitution of cocoa farmers. “It is serious. At the …

An 11-year-old daughter of Member of Parliament for Wa Central, Rashid Pelpuo, has shared what she believes can solve some of the challenges Ghanaians face in the country. According to Barika Fathia Pelpuo, the solution she discovered was based on day-to-day challenges she encounters either on her way to school …

Stella Wilson Agyapong, the wife of famous politician and presidential hopeful, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong incurred his wrath in her attempt to shield a supposedly corrupt health worker who exploited a woman at a government hospital. On the account of the Assin Central Member of Parliament, a woman he had met at …

Ghanaian business magnate and founder, chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of the McDan Group of Companies, Dr. Daniel McKorley, has made known his intentions to pay the medical bills of Sulemana Abdul-Samed, the tallest man in Ghana. Sulemana Abdul Samed, also known as Awuche, is the tallest man in Ghana. …

The Baba Yara Sports stadium will be unavailable for domestic competitions until, after Ghana’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Angola, the Ghana Football Association announced on Wednesday. This decision was made during a meeting on Wednesday, attended by representatives from the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the Ghana Football …

It has been revealed that a member of Ghana’s National Wheelchair Tennis Team who were attacked by gunmen in Nigeria is a mother of twins. According to the coach of the team. Philip Plange, he personally convinced the physically-challenged nursing mother to join the team on their trip to Nigeria …

Madam Florence Benford joined parliament as a staff cook in 1993 – the First Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana and has since served parliament to date. Madam Florence Banford who is now the Principal Catering Officer, 55, said she did not expect she will be in parliament this long. In …

Dr Tiah Kabiru Mahama, a technical advisor at the Office of the Vice President, has warned Ghanaians against voting back former President John Dramani Mahama to power. Speaking in a Good Morning Ghana interview monitored by GhanaWeb, on Thursday, February 9, 2023, Dr Kabiru Mahama said that Mahama has had the …

Ghana’s Ambassador to Turkey, Francisca Ashitey-Odunton, has disclosed that every Ghanaian resident at the epi-centre of the earthquake in Turkey has been accounted for with the exception of footballer Christian Atsu. Christian Atsu, who was trapped in the disaster caused by the earthquake in Turkey, was reported to have been rescued …

Of all the stories many Ghanaians know of the man who first brought cocoa seedlings to Ghana, the narratives that they came from Fernando Po (now Equatorial Guinea) and that Tetteh Quarshie was only able to smuggle the seeds by swallowing them have been the most predominant. Well, while only …