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Prices of petroleum products are expected to decline this week following the stability of the cedi against the major international trading currencies and reduction of world prices of fuel. Mr Pius Enam Hadzide, a Deputy Minister of Information, addressing journalists in a news briefing, in Accra on Sunday, said the prices of petrol would drop averagely by 5.8 percent, diesel ...

Government is awaiting validated macro-indicators or indices from the Statistical Service before it can fully wean itself from the IMF’s three-year extended credit facility programme, a parliamentary report has revealed. The country is in its final year of the US$918m credit deal signed in April 2015 to fix its economy dogged by high deficit, inflation and a troubling public debt. ...

It is very interesting the pattern of events in this country, Investigative Journalist, Manasseh Azure Awuni has noted. That drones will be a prioritized option for optimizing health delivery when ambulances are unavailable, that there will readily be available for the President and his Vice, ambulances for lunch purposes when some pregnant persons in labour have to virtually be rushed ...

Parliament has finally approved the drones for medical delivery deal after three failed attempts. The Ghana Health Service (GHS) introduced the deal to help deliver blood and essential medicines across the country, especially to rural communities. 102 MPs voted for the deal while 58 dissented. The GHS recently described the deal as extremely useful and called on all Ghanaians to ...

A lawyer and governance expert, Dr Eric Oduro Osae, has said his reading of the law makes it clear to him that ex-Presidents John Mahama, John Kufuor and John Rawlings can all contest for the high office of the land. Dr Oduro Osae says the six months administration led by Mr Mahama prior to contesting in the 2012 general elections ...

The roof of the popular Kumasi city mall has caved in, authorities there have confirmed. The roof came down Tuesday morning. It is unclear what triggered the incident but no fatality has been recorded. Management of the facility however say they are on top of the issue and the place will be cleaned up soon. The mall was commissioned by ...

Government has officially withdrawn the controversial Ameri deal brought to Parliament by the sacked Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko. In its place is a new agreement which the current Energy Minister John Peter Amewu claims is an improvement on the initial agreement signed by the erstwhile NDC government in 2015. He would however not comment on whether this new deal is ...

The Herald, has cited the “renegotiated and enhanced terms” power management contract between the Government of Ghana and the Africa and Middle East Resources Investment Group (AMERI Energy) and discovered a gift of US$51.34 million from the 250MW emergency power generators. But the US$51.34 million gift from AMERI to Ghana, was necessitated by the Akufo-Addo government’s difficulties with raising the ...

The Herald, has cited the “renegotiated and enhanced terms” power management contract between the Government of Ghana and the Africa and Middle East Resources Investment Group (AMERI Energy) and discovered a gift of US$51.34 million from the 250MW emergency power generators. But the US$51.34 million gift from AMERI to Ghana, was necessitated by the Akufo-Addo government’s difficulties with raising the ...

Het aantal hogere inkomens met ernstige financiële problemen is in drie jaar tijd verdubbeld. In 2015 ging het nog om 9 procent, inmiddels kampt 18 procent van de hogere inkomens met betalingsproblemen. Het Nibud spreekt van een opmerkelijke ontwikkeling. ,,We tasten in het duister over de oorzaak.” 1,5 miljoen huishoudens (21 procent) in Nederland kampen met betalingsproblemen, zo blijkt uit het ...