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Asante Kotoko midfielder Fabio Gama Dos Santos is delighted by his output on his full debut as the club handed Liberty Professionals a 2-0 defeat in the Ghana Premier League (GPL) on Monday. Having joined the Porcupine Warriors in October, the 28-year-old made his first start for the Porcupine Warriors in the matchday eight fixture at the Accra Sports Stadium. He ...

Member of Parliament for Asawase constituency Muntanka Mubarak in 2019 apologised to fellow lawmaker Kennedy Agyapong after calling him a drug dealer. The two MPs were engaged in a near brawl following Mr Mubarak’s referral of Mr Agyapong to the Privileges Committee of Parliament over his comments prior to the murder of undercover journalist Ahmed Hussein-Suale. Mr Agyepong was displeased with his referral to the committee ...

The Deputy Communications Director at the Presidency, Fatimatu Abubakar, has reiterated that the NDC’s election petition will not overturn the outcome of the 2020 election. According to her, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Ado has selected competent lawyers including Akoto Ampaw and Frank Davies to face the NDC in court, adding that the NPP will win the court case. Speaking on ...

Jacob Osei Yeboah, has opined that it would be impossible for the Electoral Commission (EC) to rig an election. He believes the systems in place in organizing elections in Ghana makes it impossible for an election to be rigged. To him, parties need to present competent party agents in an election so they will follow the processes thoroughly. JOY as he is ...

Rising gold prices and the dwindling appeal of South Africa as a production source should be the perfect backdrop for Ghana to extend its lead as Africa’s biggest producer of the yellow metal. Gold has risen about 30% over the last 12 months even as mining majors have sought to diversify away from South Africa, due to problems such as ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has announced about US$91 billion in financing to 80 countries, including US$11.3 billion to 48 low-income countries since the onset of the pandemic in late March and as of September 15, 2020. Out of this lending, the IMF channeled US$30 billion (equivalent to SDR 21.2 billion) in financing to 69 countries through emergency lending facilities. ...

The Institute for Energy Security (IES) has said it is sceptical about the Akufo-Addo administration’s renewed promise to supply electricity to all by the end of its second term. This comes after President Akufo-Addo in his inaugural speech during his swearing-in last week disclosed of government’s commitment to extend electricity supply to communities lacking. In a statement issued, the IES ...

Parliament has approved a $162, 931,563.27 Barclays Bank PLC loan to finance the design, construction and furnishing of seven district hospitals and provide an integrated IT systems by NMS Infrastructure Limited. The money is part of the amendment agreements to the ECGD Loan Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Ghana, Barclays Bank PLC (as Coordinating MLA) and Her ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana has admitted that it is possible that the December 9, 2020, declaration of the presidential-elect may have been characterised by “computational and mathematical errors” made in the course of the collation of the results, “but these did not have a material effect on the overall results as declared”. John Dramani Mahama, who contested the ...

Waarschijnlijk wordt de lockdown verlengd. Een verlenging van een week of twee ligt voor de hand, zeggen ingewijden. Aanscherping van de maatregelen wordt ook niet uitgesloten. De besmettingscijfers zijn nog steeds veel te hoog, zei premier Mark Rutte vrijdag nog. Wel lijkt het aantal ziekenhuis- en ic-opnames wat af te vlakken. Ook in andere landen zoals Duitsland is de lockdown ...