General News of Friday, 30 December 2022   play videoAkosua Frema Osei-Opare, Chief of Staff The Chief of Staff, Akosua Frema Osei-Opare, has urged Ghanaians to maintain their composure and optimism for better times despite the country’s current economic challenges. According to her, the coming year [2023] will see an improvement in the economic situation even as the country recently ...

Business News of Friday, 30 December 2022 File photo The Ghana Revenue Authority has said it is commencing the implementation of a unified common property rate platform from New Year’s Day. It is doing so in conjunction with the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies. “Effective January 1, 2023, the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) will be partnering the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in ...

Health News of Monday, 19 December 2022 Participants who were at the commissioning cutting a cake   Anglogold Ashanti Health Foundation (AGAHF) has commissioned a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the cost of GHC660,000. This is the first and only well-equipped Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Obuasi. The idea to put up the facility according to the Executive Director ...

  Volta region is the least region vaccinated against covid-19 out of 16 regions in Ghana Residents of the Volta Region in Ghana are resisting being vaccinated against the Covid-19 pandemic, a situation which is leading to the wastage of vaccines, the authorities have said. Available statistics from the Ghana Health Service (GHS) indicate that only 28.1 per cent of ...

  Justice Clemence Jackson Honyenuga A principal state attorney has predicted the outcome of a certiorari and prohibition application before the Supreme Court and has therefore, asked the High Court to dismiss an application for a stay of proceedings by counsel for former COCOBOD boss Dr. Stephen Opuni. Stella Ohene Appiah asserted that the applicant had been unsuccessful in previous ...

John Kumah, Deputy Minister of Finance and MP for Ejisu Deputy Minister of Finance, John Kumah, has underscored the enormity of the economic challenge that government is currently faced with and has thus urged institutional bondholders to sign on to the current domestic debt exchange proposed by government. Kumah told Joy FM on Tuesday, December 6; that the consequences for ...

Business News of Monday, 5 December 2022 Source: www.ghanaweb.com Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta announced a Domestic Debt Exchange on December 4, 2022; with the view that details of the said programme will be presented today, December 5. One of three key points he put out in his four-minute address was the fact that there “There will be NO haircut on ...

The ruins of Fort Komenda found in British Komenda in the Central Region. Image: Wikimedia Commons/F A great African merchant, businessman, and state-builder, John Kabes (also spelled John Cabess or John Cabes) established the paramount stool of the prosperous port city of Komenda in the Eguafo Kingdom of the Gold Coast (Ghana). Despite his tight links to the British and ...

Business News of Monday, 5 December 2022 Source: www.ghanaweb.com   play videoKen Ofori-Atta, Finance Minister Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta on Sunday, December 4, 2022; announced a number of measures under government’s Domestic Debt Exchange (DDE) programme. He stated in a 4-minute address that the announcement was in line with government’s Debt Sustainability Analysis as contained in the 2023 budget he ...

General News of Monday, 5 December 2022 Source: www.ghanaweb.com   play videoKen Ofori-Atta, Finance Minister Minister of Finance on December 4, 2022; announced measures in government’s Domestic Debt Exchange, DDE, as part of Ghana wider debt sustainability at a time Ghana is seeking support from the International Monetary Fund, IMF. He stated in a four-minute address that the announcement was in ...