President Akufo-Addo has given assurance to the people of Damongo in the Savannah Region that the Damongo Water Project will start in the first week of August this year to provide potable water to the area. Responding to a request for water and some educational facilities made by the Overlord …
Read More »Chief Justice Petitions CID To Investigate Bribery Allegations Against Him
The Chief Justice, Justice Kwasi Anin Yeboah, has petitioned the director general of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, to investigate bribery allegations leveled against him. A private legal practitioner, Akwasi Afrifa, in a letter he wrote in response to a complaint filed against him (the …
Read More »NIA Boss Ken Attafuah: Ghana Card To Replace Passport Soon
Ghanaians will soon be able to use the Ghana Card as a passport for travelling across the globe, the National Identification Authority (NIA) has said. The NIA has begun talks with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Information Technology Agency (NITA) to get two separate certifications to make the …
Read More »Akufo-Addo Commissions 85-Bed Central Gonja District Hospital
President Nana Akufo-Addo has commissioned an 85-bed Central Gonja District Hospital, located in Buipe, in the Savannah Region, at the start of his 2-day tour of the Region The Buipe Hospital, whose construction commenced in 2018, is one of six medical installations for which the Government secured an 80-million-Euro facility …
Read More »Ghana’s First Digital Currency Ready For Piloting In September – BoG
The Bank of Ghana is ready to begin the pilot phase for the first digital currency known as the ‘e-cedi’ by September this year. Also known as the Central Bank Digital Currency, it is expected to operate in a sandbox in the interim before introducing to the general public as …
Read More »If You Can Cross 6 Minutes In Bed, You Are Normal – Urologist
“We don’t have a culture of asking questions’, host of Joy FM’s Home Affairs, Edem Knight-Tay would remark to her guest, Dr Matthew Yamoah Kyei, a consultant urologist at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. But under the relative anonymity of radio, the men would emerge from their hideouts, revealing on Joy …
Read More »Speaker Announces Review Of GIPC Act Permitting Nigerian Traders Into Ghana’s Retail Space
A joint communique between Ghana and Nigeria on the sides of the Extraordinary ECOWAS Summit will exempt Nigerians from the $1 million minimum capital requirement under the GIPC Act 2013, Act 865. Hitherto, this prevented Nigerians from trading in Ghana’s retail market. This announcement was made by the Speaker of …
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GSS Extends Deadline For 2021 Population And Housing Census To July 18
The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has extended the deadline for the 2021 Population and Housing Census to Sunday, July 18. This will allow enumerators complete work in the outstanding enumeration areas. The exercise, which started on Monday, June 28, was expected to end today, July 11, 2021, in all sixteen …
Read More »Euro 2020 Final: Penalty Heartbreak For England As Italy Win
England‘s bid to end their 55-year wait for a major trophy ended in the familiar agony of defeat in a penalty shootout as Italy claimed the Euro 2020 crown at Wembley. On a night of anticipation, tension and ultimate heartbreak in a feverish atmosphere, England looked on course for their …
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