Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Ghana International Bank (GHIB) 5.8 million pounds ($7.1 million) for failings in its anti-money laundering controls. The FCA said the bank provided correspondent banking services to other lenders, allowing them to provide products and payment services they would otherwise be unable to provide. …

The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) will from July this year rollout free treatment for children with sickle cell and cancer registered with the scheme. NHIA has adopted Hydroxyurea, a drug commonly used medicine for patients with SCD in developed countries approved by Ghana’s Food and Drugs Authority in 2018 …

“Honesty is the best policy” Benjamin Franklin (American Statesman: 1700)   In 1507, King James IV of Scotland was granted the title of “Protector and Defender of the Christian Faith” by Pope Julius II in October, 1521, Pope Leo X granted the same title to King Henry VIII for his …

A Founding Member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakoe has said the structure of the NPP will make it difficult for Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia to be the flagbearer and eventually, President of Ghana.   Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe said he has known Bawumia for quite sometime and …

A Founding member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe has said that the Akufo-Addo government has been plagued with series of corruption for which Trade Minister, Alan John Kwadwo  Kyerematen should have resigned.   Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe said he would have followed Mr Kyerematen if he had had …

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) appears to be contacting successful aspirants who went through the party’s vetting process. The vetting report was supposed to have been released to the public today but party sources said the aspirants have to be informed before making it public. One of the successful aspirants …

The Ghana Health Service has expressed worry over the rate at which children between the ages of 0 and 15 are contracting COVID-19 in Accra.   According to the service, data available indicates cases involving children in Accra have increased from 18 percent to 20 percent in June. Ghana currently …

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has refuted claims he has endorsed an aspiring candidate in the New Patriotic Party’s flagbearership race. According to him, media reportage suggesting that he had endorsed the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s candidacy, against the other aspiring candidates at the recent Peduase Valley Resort Father’s …

The New  Patriotic Party (NPP) is today expected to release the results of aspiring officers who were vetted by its national executive elections committee. Fifty-one persons submitted their nomination papers before they made their appearance at the vetting committee. Even before the results are made public today, the fate of …

Popular Ghanaian dancehall artiste Emmanuel Andrews Samini was on Wednesday (22 June) elected the president of the Students’ Representative Council (SRC) of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA).   The ‘My Own’ hitmaker polled 307 votes against his main rival Theophilus Quartey, who had 212 of the …