‘ORDINARY’ CITIZENS: THE PUNCHING BAGS OF POLITICIANS
The erstwhile president of Ghana, His Excellence John Dramani Mahama has added his voice to the many the economic crisis currently plaguing Ghana. On his official Facebook page, the former…
AKUFO-ADDO NOW DETERMINED TO FIX GHANA’S ECONOMY
Despite Ghana’s economy being recently downgraded by a major rating agency, Standard & Poor’s (S&P), President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is optimistic that it would recover. The global and local…
AFRICA TO PREVENT WORLD WAR III
The African continent has been urged to aid Ukraine in fending off the Russian invasion by President Volodymyr Zelensky. President Zelenskyy, who was dressed in his signature, straightforward, yet iconic…
HEALTH IS WEALTH: NOT EVERY PACKAGED WATER IS ‘WATER’
The Food and Drugs Authority of Ghana (FDA), is responsible for enforcing pertinent standards to safeguard the public’s health and ensuring the safety, quality, and efficacy of human and veterinary…
GHANA DOUBLES ITS LOAN REQUEST FROM THE IMF
According to Bloomberg, the government of Ghana will be considering obtaining $3 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over a period of three years upon reaching an agreement on a…
CEMENT PRICES TO RISE AGAIN DUE TO CEDI DEPRECIATION
Prices for cement are anticipated to rise, starting the next week. The 50-kilo bag’s wholesale price is anticipated to rise from its current GH59.00 price to GH68.00. Some of the…
‘FARMERS ARE NOW MY FAN CLUB’ – DR. OWUSU AFRIYIE AKOTO
Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, the minister of food and agriculture, claims that farmers in the nation now adore him because of the changes he has brought about in the agricultural…
BUSINESSES IN GHANA THREATENED BY CEDI DEPRECIATION
The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) has stated that the depreciation of the cedi against other major trading currencies is alarming and the increase in the monetary policy rate…
CORRUPTION AMONG COUNCIL OF STATE MEMBERS?
The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has recovered Ghc1.074 million from a business owned by a Council of State member. The amount from Eunice Jacqueline Buah Asomah-Hinneh’s frozen foods company,…
INVESTORS ON THE RUN AS S&P DOWNGRADES GHANA’S CREDIT RATINGS FROM B- TO CCC+
Standard and Poor’s (S&P) Global Ratings, an American credit rating organization, downgraded Ghana’s foreign and local currency sovereign ratings to CCC+/C from B-/B on Friday, August 5. This moved Ghana’s…
GLOBAL CURRENCIES IN CRISIS
In the past three months, a number of nations had their currencies depreciate significantly against the dollar. The Russian Ruble appreciated versus the US dollar. The dollar gained value by…
NAPO TEASES MAHAMA AS BEING KINGPIN OF DUMSOR
Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has been approved by Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, also known as NAPO, as the next leader of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). Napo believes that the Vice…
“DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO”: THE ERA OF LIP SERVICE LEADERSHIP
The purpose of Founders’ Day, celebrated on the 4th of August every year, is to recognize the contributions of all individuals, particularly those who led the fight for Ghana’s independence.…
SEXUAL CRIMES ON THE RISE: WHAT COULD BE THE CAUSE?
Six students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have been accused of raping a first-year student and remanded by the Asokore Mampong District Court. The development…
BANK OF GHANA ILLEGALLY FUNDING GOVERNMENT?
Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, the Minority Spokesperson on Finance has accused the Bank of Ghana (BoG) of printing money to fund the government’s budget without obtaining parliamentary approval. He quotes…
THE AFRICAN PEOPLE HAVE WAITED LONG ENOUGH
Ghana’s president, Nana Akufo-Addo, said at a four-day Reparations and Racial Healing Summit in Accra on Monday that reparations for the heinous Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade that saw Africans and people…
DOLLAR NOW SELLS AT GHS8.86 AS OF TODAY, AUGUST 2
The Ghana Cedi is currently trading against the dollar at a purchasing price of 7.6102 and a selling price of 7.6178, according to the Bank of Ghana’s interbank exchange rates…
TWO PROMINENT NOLLYWOOD ACTORS REPORTEDLY KIDNAPPED
Cynthia Okereke and Clemson Cornel, alias Agbogidi, two well-known Nollywood actors and members of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), have reportedly been abducted. The information was first released in a statement made accessible to Premium Times on Friday by…
SIM RE-REGISTRATION: IT’S ABOUT TIME
The re-registration of SIM cards initially started on October 1 of 2021 and finished on March 31, 2022. However, because the majority of Ghanaians hadn’t yet received their Ghana cards,…
NO SCHOOL ON PERIOD DAYS
I was born in the mid-nineties, a time when girls’ education was not common, and if they got the chance to go to school, some parents could only afford secondary…