Government is making payments for treasury notes that matured on Tuesday, despite earlier statement that no coupons will be paid in 2023. Investors have been receiving payments on the government instruments with coupon rate of above 18.5% as of 6pm. However it appears the bonds were honoured because the domestic …
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A former Deputy Finance Minister, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, says 2023 will present one of the toughest years for the Ghanaian economy. Not only will the economy record one of the worst non-oil GDP growths, he predicts, but also the banking sector, local businesses and individuals will be adversely impacted …
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Baffuor Owusu Amankwatia VI has appealed to the government to empower chiefs to deal with the issue of Galamsey in the country. He said the powers of chiefs to arrest recalcitrant citizens had diminished and there was very little they could do to salvage the vile environmental degradation perpetrated through …
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The Ghana Police Service has announced the arrest of the last suspect in the deadly robbery on a Mobile Money agent in Kasoa in the Central Region on Tuesday, December 20. Ahmed, who is popularly known as Arrested, was nabbed on Monday, January 2 through a sustained police intelligence operation. …
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The management of the University of Ghana, Legon (UG) has justified the recent fees announced for the 2022/2023 academic year. Student leaders had raised concerns about the fees, describing them as too high and in contravention of the 15 percent recently approved by Parliament. But in a statement on Monday, …
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The Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) has revised its Covid-19 guidelines for the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) to come into force effective Friday, January 6. According to the updated guidelines, all passengers arriving from China will be required to present a valid negative Covid-19 PCR test result 48 hours prior …
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The chief of Drobonso in the Ashanti Region’s Sekyere Afram Plains District has accused personnel of the Agogo District Police Command of killing cattle in the area. The entry into Sekyere Afram Plains District for the purpose of shooting and killing cattle without justification, according to Nana Dankwah Dwubin-Siaw I, …
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The Member of Parliament (MP) for North Dayi, Madam Joycelene Tetteh has created employment for some 80 girls trained mostly in sewing and hairdressing. These girls drawn from seven of the nine traditional areas in the constituency were also given sewing machines or hair dryers depending on what training they …
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A 25-year-old man, Sowah, is in the custody of the Agona Swedru Divisional Police for allegedly shooting a sawmill operator to death at Agona Asafo in the Agona East District of the Central Region. The deceased, 43-year-old Kweku Yeboah, was shot dead on Friday during an altercation with the suspect. …
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Two Senegal lawmakers have been sentenced to six months each in prison for physically assaulting a female colleague in the nation’s parliament last month. In a December 1 bust-up, videos of which went viral on social media, opposition MPs Mamadou Niang and Massata Samb slapped and then kicked pro-government legislator …
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