BoG Cuts Key Interest Rates
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has cut its benchmark interest rate by 100 basis points from 23.5 to 22.5 percent, citing a downward trend in inflation towards medium term targets. The BoG has set eight plus...
Day: May 22, 2017
Atuabo Project Was Bloated By Over $40m – Dr. Manteaw
The Co-chair of the Ghana Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (GHEITI), Dr. Steve Manteaw is alleging that the one billion dollar cost of the Atuabo Gas plant in the Western Region was...
Aubameyang Equals Tony Yeboah’s 23-Year-Old Bundesliga Record
Gabonese striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has become the second African player after Ghana’s Tony Yeboah to win the golden boot in Germany twice. Aubameyang achieved the feat of winning the golden...
Ayews Strike In the Same Minute On Final Day of EPL
It was a day of rare luck as Andre and Jordan Ayew found the back of the net on the final day of the English Premier league. Both players ended their respective matches in a 2-1, both surviving the...
Ghana’s U17 Team Hit By Malaria Ahead of Niger Semi-Final Showdown
Ghana U17 team qualified from the group stage with an unbeaten record Ghana's Under-17 team have been hit by an outbreak of malaria rendering more than five key players as doubts for the semi-final...
I Lose Nothing Over Ghana Banishment – KP Boateng
Kevin-Prince Boateng appears to have put the final nail in the coffin over a potential return to the Black Stars, claiming he loses nothing if he does not represent the West Africans at the...
John Mahama ‘woos’ African Youth To Go Into Agriculture
The former president, John Mahama, is urging the youth in Africa to embrace agriculture and not neglect that sector. According to him, although there are many challenges within the sector, it has the...
Teenage Pregnancy Declines In Ashanti
Kumasi, May 22, GNA – Teenage pregnancy is on a downward trend in the Ashanti Region as the various interventions and intense public education campaign begin to show positive results. A total of...
SRC Asks UCC Rusticated Students To Ignore School’s Directive
The Student Representative Council of the University of Cape Coast (UCC), has asked 22 students who have been rusticated to bin the school’s directive. The SRC is asking the affected students not...
GSA Kickback Report Embarrassing; Crentsil Must Confess
The Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Standards Authority has described as "shameful and embarrassing," findings of an investigative committee claiming that the immediate past Executive Director...
Black Stars ‘B’ To Play Friendly Against Benin On Thursday
Kwesi Appiah's first game is on Thursday The local-based Black Stars will face their Beninoise counterpart in an international friendly at the Accra Sports Stadium on Thursday. The match will mark...
Thomas Abbey Confident of Making Black Stars ‘B’ Final Squad
Accra Hearts of Oak winger Thomas Abbey believes he will make the final squad for the 2018 CHAN qualifiers and WAFU tournament to be hosted by Ghana in September despite receiving late call-up to the...
Tunisia Protester Death Raises Fears of More Unrest
A young protester was killed Monday after a national guard vehicle "accidentally" ran him over in south Tunisia, raising fears of more social unrest in a region already rocked by weeks of protest....
I’ll Return To Football When Corruption Stops
Former Ghana international Anthony Yeboah says he has no immediate plans to return to football administration after being frustrated out of football a few years ago due to alleged underhand dealings...
Akufo-Addo To Name, Shame Corrupt Officials
President Nana Akufo-Addo has said his government intends taking the fight against corruption a notch higher by naming and shaming state officials who engage in graft. Speaking at the CEO’s Summit...
President Not Oblivious To Enormity of Corruption – Osafo-Marfo
President Nana Akufo-Addo says his administration will court the support of the business community in its efforts to rid the system of corruption. He said the scale and level of tolerated corruption...
Some Akufo-Addo Appointees Corrupt
Controversial Christian leader Very Rev Prof. Emanuel Martey says some appointees in the NPP government are corrupt. In an interview with some journalists in Accra, the former Moderator of the...
John Dumelo Apologises To A1 ‘bread Seller’
Ghanaian actor John Dumelo has apologised to Godfred Obeng Boateng, the graduate he spotted selling bread in traffic last Saturday. In an Instagram post he made on Monday, 22nd May, 2017 around...
Kanter Reveals Death Threats, To Seek US Passport
Oklahoma City Thunder's Turkish star Enes Kanter said Monday he plans to seek US citizenship and has been receiving death threats as a result of his outspoken criticism of his homeland's president....
Critics of Akufo-Addo’s Government Are Unwise – Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Martey
Immediate past moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Very Rev Professor Emmanuel Martey, has lashed out at critics of the four-month-old Akufo-Addo-led administration describing them as...