Word on the streets is that times are hard, prices of items have skyrocketed, and everything seems to have increased except the salaries of workers. Broadcaster, Bridget Otoo, on Tuesday, solidarized with employees who have gone months without salaries in the current economic hardship that has seen almost everybody complaining. …
Read More »Mohammed Salisu now ready to play for Black Stars – Report
There is good news for Ghanaian football fans as ‘rebel’ Mohammed Salisu is now ready to play for the Black Stars after several failed attempts. He has been courted by Ghana for long spells but has always turned down overtures from his country of birth for reason best known to …
Read More »IMF team to arrive in Ghana today; bailout talks begin on Wednesday
A team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is set to arrive in Ghana today, Tuesday, July 5, 2022, ahead of a discussion with the government of Ghana on a bail-out request made to the fund. Negotiations will begin on Wednesday, July 6, 2022. President Nana Akufo-Addo on Friday, July …
Read More »Keep schools open despite strike by teachers – GES to headmasters
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has directed Heads of Senior High Schools to mobilise their management teams to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all students in schools. GES further directed heads of basic schools not to shut down their facilities, despite the ongoing strike by teachers. This comes after …
Read More »Let’s find money to complete National Cathedral to avoid shame – Catholic Bishop
Most Reverend Gabriel Kumordzi, the Bishop of Keta-Akatsi Diocese of the Catholic Church has stated that it was imperative to find funds to complete the National Cathedral of Ghana project. He observed that it would be a shame that the project is abandoned and for people to be pointed in …
Read More »A mother’s struggle to feed six children as prices soar
Some families in Kenya are eating just once a day, or not at all, because of rising food prices, writes the BBC’s Catherine Byaruhanga in Nairobi. Early in the morning, I find Florence Kambua hunched over, digging through the dump site outside her front door to collect plastic, glass, clothes …
Read More »Yul Edochie offers to help homeless actor, Aguba
Actor Yul Edochie has offered to help a fellow Nollywood actor, Kenneth Jideofor, popularly known as Aguba, who is reportedly homeless. Pictures of Aguba in a shabby environment trended on the internet on Monday as multiple reports noted that he was homeless at the moment. Reacting to the news, Edochie …
Read More »We were forced to go to IMF – Gabby Otchere-Darko
New Patriotic Party (NPP) stalwart, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko has said that the government was compelled to seek a bailout at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). According to him, the government was left with no choice as policies it proposed, including the E-Levy that could possibly have brought practical solutions to the country’s …
Read More »Fuel prices to go up as NPA announces restoration of UPPF margin
The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has announced that it is restoring the full Unified Petroleum Price Fund (UPPF) margin on petroleum products. It made the announcement to players in the industry on Thursday June 30, 2022, indicating that the decision takes effect from Friday, July 1, 2022. “We hereby wish …
Read More »14-year-old dormant factory brought back to life in Central Region
After 14 years of shutdown, Coastal Groves Limited, a wholly owned Ghanaian organic orange juice processing factory in the Central Region of Ghana, was on Tuesday, re-inaugurated by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. The ceremony took on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and …
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