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If the Black Stars get to the semifinals of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Ghana will invest little over US$14 million on them, the sports ministry informed Parliament on Friday (4 November 2022). The competition begins on November 20, 2022. Portugal, Uruguay, and South Korea were placed in Group H …

Former president of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS), Emmanuel Yiadom Boakye, has called the three teacher unions’ current strike action illegal and dishonorable. He asserts that it is absurd for teacher unions to protest against a colleague of theirs who has been named Director-General of the Ghana Education …

In my article on government’s planned construction of a national place of worship, the National Cathedral, I alluded my reason in support of the argument to a research finding, from a credible source, that the world was heading for an inevitable Depression and Hopelessness amongst its inhabitants due, mainly, to …

A Forensic Chartered Accountant, Mr. Awuni Akyereba has called the leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government as a matter of urgency, reprimand its Member of Parliament (MP) for Old Tafo, Vincent Ekow Asafuah for the latter’s scathing attacks on the Education Minister, Hon. Osei Yaw Adutwum over the …

Collins Adomako-Mensah, an Afigya Kwabre North NPP Member of Parliament (MP), has backed up Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah- Bonsu’s assertion that the entire Majority Caucus now supports calls for the ouster of Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta. A motion of censure was then filed against Mr. Ofori-Atta after the Minority in …

Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, vice president, has urged the preservation of Ghanaian culture and history as a gift to future generations. Dr. Bawumia underlined the importance of cultural sustainability in his speech on Saturday at the 2022 Hogbetsotso Festival, which also happened to be the festival’s 60th anniversary. He said that …

On Saturday, November 5, 2022, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the President of the Republic, departed Ghana to represent Ghana in the delegation to the World Leaders’ Summit of the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference (COP 27), which was taking place in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. The UN Framework Convention on …

Seth Terkper, a former Finance Minister, has denied claims that he was not in charge of Ghana’s negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) while former President John Dramani Mahama was in office. He claims that despite the negotiation being presided over by famous economist Prof. Kwesi Botchwey, Terkper attended …

Every child born inside the borders of Ghana will receive a National Identification Card (Ghana Card) number at birth beginning in the first quarter of 2023, according to Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia. The vice president stated that this places Ghana on level with sophisticated states in a series of …

According to Mr. John Abdulai Jinapor, a member of the minority caucus in the Ghanaian parliament and the member for the Northern Region’s Yapei Kusawgu constituency, fuel prices increased by over 200 percent (200%) between January 1 and November 1, 2022. He maintains that there is no explanation for the …