Indexing government scandals one at a time
Uncertainty hangs over the 2024 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) as the examining body, West African Examinations Council (WAEC), waits to recoup almost 98 per cent of GH¢95.83 millio...
June 19, 2024
More than 120 containers of free Malaria and Tuberculosis medications donated by Global Fund to Ghana have been left to rot at the Tema Port for many months. The total containers were more than thi...
June 11, 2024
The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) have withdrawn the country’s hockey teams from the Africa Games in Ghana citing the poor condition of the playing surface. S...
March 18, 2024
Ghana has submitted debt restructuring scenarios to bondholders which include a haircut of 30% to 40% on principal, a coupon of not more than 5%, and a final maturity of not more than 20 years, Fin...
Oct. 16, 2023
Police have arrested protesters during demonstrations against the cost of living and the economic crisis gripping the country. Some journalists who were covering the protests, which took place outs...
Sept. 21, 2023
Ghana has for the second successive year dropped on the annual Press Freedom Index released by Reporters Without Borders. The country’s ranking fell from 60th place last year to 62nd place in 20...
May 3, 2023
A bombshell report authored by former Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, has found itself in the public domain indicting several New P...
April 20, 2023
Ghana has suspended payments on most of its external debt, effectively defaulting as the country struggles to plug its cavernous balance of payments deficit. The finance ministry said that it wi...
Dec. 20, 2022
Ghana’s cedi slumped to become the world’s worst-performing currency this year as investors continued to squeeze foreign capital to the west African country before a deal with the International Mon...
Oct. 17, 2022
Ratings agency, S&P Global Ratings, has revised Ghana’s rating from B-/B to CCC+/C, putting the country’s creditworthiness into junk status. It also reviewed the country’s economic outlook to ne...
Aug. 8, 2022
Ghana is heading for its smallest cocoa crop in 12 years after drought withered pods and illegal gold miners damaged plantations, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Preliminary da...
July 30, 2022
Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Prof. Kwasi Opoku Amankwah, says a review of the Free Senior High School Policy is underway. This exercise, he reveals is geared at determi...
July 22, 2022
A Bloomberg study has ranked Ghana 2nd among countries with the highest debt default risk in 2022. The country closely follows El Salvador (ranked number one) in the Sovereign Debt Vulnerability...
July 19, 2022
Ghana’s president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has authorized Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta to commence formal engagements with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to support the country’s e...
July 6, 2022
Senior High Schools under the free SHS programme have threatened to shut down and students sent home if the food supply situation does not improve. This is a result of the poor food supply situa...
May 9, 2022