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The Cedi traded against the dollar at a mid-rate of 8.0671 Its trade value against the Pounds Sterling was at a mid-rate of 9.7410 The Euro’s mid-rate stands at 8.2096 Note that these rates may be different at a forex bureau near you. Our forex bureau rates are provided by Afriswap …

  A 31-year-old Ghanaian, by name Abdul Inusah, has been convicted in the United States (US) for defrauding individuals in multiple states. According to a statement issued by the US Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of West Virginia, Inusah was convicted by a federal jury for his role in …

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on Ghana and other African countries to help dispel the lies being told by Russia as reasons for attacking his country. According to President Zelenskyy, the accusations being made by Russia that Ukraine is habouring nuclear weapons and that its citizens are naxists are false, …

A Forty-Seven (47) year old who is hooked to smoking marijuana known as ‘Wee’ in the local parlance has confessed that he and his colleagues sometimes smoke dried human and animal excreta laced with weed and tramadol. Officials of the Narcotics Control Commission (NCC), there is a surge in the …

The 2019 song ‘Already’ by American singer Beyoncé featuring Ghanaian dancehall artiste Shatta Wale has received gold certification in the United States of America. The certification, by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), marks 500,000 units of the Afrobeats song sold. The achievement was chalked on Monday 8 August 2022. It …

Sub-Saharan Africa plays a critical role in advancing global priorities to the benefit of Africans and Americans. It has one of the world’s fastest growing populations, largest free trade areas, most diverse ecosystems, and one of the largest regional voting groups in the United Nations (UN). It is impossible to …

Prof. Kwaku Asare, a US-based lawyer, has asked law students to boycott the Ghana School of Law exams amid reports of the undertaking they are being made to sign for the exam. Speaking on The Big Issue, he urged students to defend their LLB degrees. “They can do so by boycotting …

The youngest of two boys found with the decomposing bodies of their parents in their home at Maakro has spoken. According to the youngest of the two boys who were found unconscious by the police, they were starved for religious reasons. “We were not eating because our parents said food …

The United State has announced new monetary support in the area of development assistance to Ghana. The sum of US$2.5 million announced today (August 5, 2022) is to help Ghana amid a global food crisis, a USAID statement read. The statement comes at a time a top official of the …

A Russian court has sentenced US basketball star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison on drug charges. As Griner, 31, was being led out of the courtroom in handcuffs, she was heard saying: “I love my family.” The double Olympic winner has admitted possessing cannabis oil, but told the …