GHANA RECORDS OVER 23,000 NEW HIV/AIDS CASES IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2022
Accra, Ghana (GS) The infection rate of the HIV/AIDS disease among Ghanaians continues to increase in spite of efforts by the Ghana Aids Commission, {GAC). to educate the public about the dangers of the disease and measures that can be taken to reduce the spread. In an interview with the Daily Graphic newspaper in Accra,... Read More
‘GTV DID NOT GIVE US VALUE FOR OUR MONEY’-NLA EXPLAINS THE DECISION TO TERMINATE THE CONTRACT
The management of Ghana’s National Lottery Authority, (NLA), has issued a response to allegations made against the Authority by a popular Ghanaian broadcaster, Mr. Kwasi Kyei-Darkwa, (a.k.a. KKD), concerning the abrogation of a contract between the NLA and Ghana Television (GTV), which is operated by the state-owned Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), and the State Insurance... Read More
GHANA’S SPECIAL PROSECUTOR LAUNCHES PROBE INTO ALLEGED CORRUPTION AT THE CUSTOMS DIVISION OF THE GHANA REVENUE SERVICE
Accra, Ghana (GS) Ghana’s corruption problem has reached a crescendo with the nation’s Special Prosecutor determined to smoke out and prosecute corrupt officials in government who have been causing huge financial losses to the state through dubious waivers and tax exemptions, especially at the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority, GRA. Consequently, the Office... Read More
RISING FOOD PRICES IN AFRICAN MARKETS HURTING GHANAIANS IN THE WASHINGTON DC METRO AREA
Washington DC, (GS). Thousands of Ghanaians living in the Washington DC metropolitan area are complaining about the rising cost of food prices in African grocery stores across the region. Prices of staples such as cooking oil, rice, smoked fish, and the popular goat meat which is prized by many Ghanaian residents have reached astronomical prices.... Read More
HOPESON ADORYE, EKOW VINCENT ASSAFFUAH, MP FOR OLD TAFO SUMMONED TO APPEAR BEFORE NPP’S NATIONAL COMPLAINTS COMMITTEE
Accra, Ghana. (GS) The National Steering Committee (NSC) of the New Patriotic Party has referred a former parliamentary candidate for Kpone-Katamanso Hopeson Adorye and the sitting MP for Old Tafo in the NPP stronghold of the Ashanti Region, Hon. Ekow Vincent Assafuah, to the National Complaints Committee for allegedly breaching the party’s Code of Conduct.... Read More
Steve Hanke’s inflationary escapades: (mis)calcutions
J. Atsu Amegashie July 9, 2022 Steve Hanke, a professor of applied economics in the department of Environmental Health and Engineering at John Hopkins University (USA), has for, some years, embarked on a mission to compute inflation rates in several countries, especially developing countries. On social media, he was not known to Ghanaians until he... Read More