NEWS

Reckless Behaviour of Rating Agencies Caused Ghana

June 20, 2023

 – Akufo-Addo President Nana Akufo-Addo has said that Ghana’s recent economic crisis was worsened by the “reckless behaviour” of rating agencies that were downgrading the country’s economy and succeeded in shutting Ghana out of the capital market. He described Ghana’s economic situation as one of the most difficult periods in its post-Independent history, which was […]Continue Reading

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Brilliant ‘Galamsey’ Boy Asks For More Support

June 19, 2023

…After GNPC Scholarship By Gifty Arthur   Stephen Koomson, the brilliant Mpohor Senior High School (SHS) student, who could not further his education to the university because of financial challenges, thus forcing him to go into illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, has finally gotten support. The brilliant but needy SHS graduate, who earlier spoke […]Continue Reading

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Cocobod Alerts Cocoa Farmers

June 19, 2023

…Says ‘Galamsey robs you of your future pensions’ The head of the Public Affairs Department at the Ghana Cocoa Marketing Board (COCOBOD), Stephen Fiifi Boafo, has reiterated the devastating socio-economic consequences that illegal mining (galamsey) is having on the future livelihoods of cocoa farmers in the country. Mr. Boafo said illegal miners are robbing farmers […]Continue Reading

NEWS

Mystery Death Hits Nogokpo

June 19, 2023

…As former Assemblyman allegedly commits suicide   Residents of Yelibato, a community near Nogokpo in the Ketu South municipality in the Volta Region, are in a state of shock following the discovery of the lifeless body of the former assemblyman for the Nogokpo-Ativuta electoral area, Mr. Christian Kwame Amuzu. The body of the 60-year-old man […]Continue Reading

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Giving NMC Powers To Bite Dangerous For Media

June 15, 2023

–Pratt, Kabral, Others Insist   Some veteran journalists have opposed proposals to give the National Media Commission (NMC) powers of the High Court to sanitise the media landscape, saying “it is dangerous for the media.” Mr.Kabral Blay-Amihere, a writer and former chairman of the NMC; Mr. Kwaku Sakyi-Addo, a journalist and communications consultant, and Mr. Kwesi Continue Reading

NEWS

Ga East Assembly Soaked In Debts

June 15, 2023

The Ga East Municipal Assembly in the Greater Accra Region is said to be saddled in huge debts and crawling, a development which has brought some critical projects being executed by the assembly to a temporary halt. The situation, The Anchor is formed, has forced creditors, as well as service providers, some of who are […]Continue Reading

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Speeding Vehicle Kills KATH Midwife

June 15, 2023

…At ‘Abandoned’ Sofoline Interchange There is expression of shock and anger by families and friends of one Francisca Abena Asare, a midwife at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), who met her untimely death days ago in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital. The 32-year-old mother of one was knocked down by a speeding vehicle at […]Continue Reading

Business

May inflation rises marginally to 42.2% after four consecutive decreases

June 14, 2023

Inflation for May 2023 has experienced a marginal increase, rising from 41.2% in April 2023 to 42.2%. The Government Statistician, Prof. Samuel Kobina Annim, disclosed that the main drivers of this inflation are food and non-alcoholic beverages constituting 52.4%. Housing, Water, Electricity, Gas, and other fuels constituted 13.1%, and transport contributed 9.2%. Clothing Continue Reading

Foreign

Woman convicted for rape of eight-year-old boy

June 14, 2023

There is outrage in Tanzania after a middle-aged woman was found to have raped an eight-year-old boy and infected him with sexually transmitted diseases. Desderia Mbwelwa, 57, has been sentenced to 29 years in prison at a court on Friday but details of the verdict have not been widely reported until now. On the day […]Continue Reading

Opinion

Yaw Nsarkoh: The burden of charity…

June 14, 2023

As one of the few that went back to University Primary School (UPS), Legon, to become a teacher, I know that, largely, our parents kept that school going at very high-quality standards, through their meagre salaries. There were regular deductions at source (Finance Officer deducted straight from their salaries). People like Professor Ebenezer Laing used […]Continue Reading