The World Bank has rated Ghana among the highest growing economies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Speaking to media men at the launch of the 18th edition of Africa’s Pulse, a bi-annual analysis of the state of African economies, a Program Leader with the World Bank, Errol Graham, said Ghana is helping drive the overall growth of the region with its 8.1% ...

Aside from the fact, there were diversions of campaign resources that played to the disadvantage of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the run-up to the 2016 elections, there are new issues cropping up as contributory factors to the party’s defeat. Former President John Dramani Mahama has revealed that internal bickering, disunity and power struggle at the constituency level cost ...

A Member of the Council of State and lawyer, Sam Okudzeto has insisted that former President Jerry Rawlings should apologize for the “mess” that ensued following the mysterious deaths of three prominent Ghanaian judges and a retired army officer in 1982. “There was absolute lawlessness in the country,” Okudzeto told Daniel Dadzie on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show Wednesday. “The ...

The Minister of State in charge of Tertiary Education, Professor Kwesi Yankah, has advised former President John Mahama to desist from drawing him into his campaign on education. According to him, any process to reform the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) flagship education programme, the free Senior High School (SHS) policy would compromise the gains made so far. His comment comes ...

DSP Edmund Oheneasah (retd.) was working in the information room at the Police headquarters in Accra that night in August 1982. It was at a time in the country when every long conversation in Ghana would not have been complete without a discussion on who killed the judges. And it most probably would end with another charge on the police ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has revealed that the rationalisation of the banking sector has ensured that deposits of 1,147,366 Ghanaians were saved. Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the new Standard Chartered Head Office on Wednesday, 3rd October, 2018, President Akufo-Addo noted that his administration assumed the reins of office in January 2017, with the country’s banking sector in ...

Arguably, Moesha Boduong is the most talked about Ghanaian personality on social media due to her ‘wicked’ The Instagram model and actress five months ago received lots of backlash from Ghanaians after her interview with CNN. Moesha in the interview claimed that in Ghana, a lady cannot survive the hard economic conditions without the help of a man to pay ...

President of the Creative Arts Council, Mark Okraku Mantey, has revealed that government has released some funds to the body. The money, according to Mr Mantey, is aimed at helping the Creative Arts Council start some of its numerous projects. The Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Catherine Afeku in March last year inaugurated the Creative Arts Council led by ...

Ace Broadcast Journalist and the Host of Abusua Nkommo, Kwame Adinkra has descended heavily on the Ghana Highway Authority (GHA) describing the institution as the most useless and bogus state institution. Ghanaians have recently complained about poor road network in the country which is affecting business activities especially farming activities in the rural areas. About 80 percent of roads in ...

Inmates at the Nsawam Medium Prisons are demanding for the immediate removal of the leadership of the prison Officers detailed to manage the facility. According to the inmates, they would have no option to address their grievance than to embark on massive demonstration in the prison yard which will be very difficult for anybody to control them, should their call ...