Being homosexual isn’t a crime, it is only a sin – Pope Francis declares
Leader of the global Roman Catholic faithful, Pope Francis has declared as “unjust,” laws that criminalize same-sex relationships. He admonished Catholic bishops who support laws against Lesbians, Gays, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) to welcome such people to the Church because they were all God’s children and God loves all His children. “Being homosexual isn’t a […]
National Cathedral: It could cost taxpayer about $1b rather – Okudzeto Ablakwa
Contrary to the widely publicised information that the building of Ghana’s National Cathedral will cost $400 million, the Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has contested the figure. According to him, the Ghanaian taxpayer could rather be paying about $1 billion for the construction of the edifice that has recently been embroiled […]
Eat humble pie, revoke ‘ill-timed, unstrategic’ changes – Cletus Avoka to NDC executives
Cletus Avoka, outgoing Member of Parliament for Zebilla, has asked the National Executives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to reverse changes made to the leadership of the Minority Caucus in Parliament. Avoka speaks on changes Avoka, a one-time Majority Leader and veteran lawmaker, has affirmed in an interview on Joy FM (January 24) that Members of […]
Mahama advised against changing Haruna Iddrisu and co – Pratt reveals
Ace journalist, Kwesi Pratt Jnr. has disclosed that former President John Dramani Mahama, though was consulted in the latest reshuffle of the Minority leadership in parliament, was not in support of the changes. “The former president did not endorse this,” he revealed based on his impression from conversations he had with top echelon of the party. […]
Ghana begins receiving payments for reducing carbon emissions in forest landscapes
Ghana has become the second country in Africa after Mozambique to receive payments from a World Bank trust fund for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, commonly known as REDD+. The World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) paid Ghana $4,862,280 for reducing 972,456 tons of carbon emissions for the first monitoring period under […]
2 managers in trouble over non-payment of GH¢4,758.69 SSNIT contributions
The Accra District Court ‘B’ has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of managers of the Royals Institute of Excellence for non-payment of Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) contribution, totalling GH¢4,758.69. They are Benedict Kwafo and Dominic Nyamekye. The warrant was issued on January 14 during weekly situational court sittings in which […]
DDEP: Take your principal, 5% coupon and stay away from government bonds – Economist
A chartered economist is advising individual bondholders to accept the government’s decision to pay them a five percent coupon on the maturity of their bonds by the end of 2023. Mr Bernard Oduro Takyi gave this advice in an interview on the mid-day news on Accra 100.5 FM on Tuesday, January 24, 2023. According to […]
Cedi sells at GH¢12.90 to $1 on forex market, GH¢10.41 on interbank market
Note that these rates may be different at a forex bureau near you. Our forex bureau rates are provided by Afriswap Bureau De Change in Osu, Accra. The Interbank forex rates from the Bank of Ghana today, January 25, 2023, have shown that the Ghana Cedi is trading against the dollar at a buying price of 10.3998 and a selling […]
US attorney General denies president Joe Biden is being treated better than Trump in classified document probes
US Attorney General, Merrick Garland has pushed back on criticism that the US Justice Department is treating President Biden more favorably than former President Donald Trump as the government investigates their mishandling of classified documents. Some Republicans have claimed that the Justice Department of is handling Biden’s classified document investigation with kid gloves compared to […]
Boxing legend, Mike Tyson is accused of raping a second woman in the early 1990s
Boxing legend, Mike Tyson has been accused of raping a woman after the two met at an Albany nightclub in the early 1990s, according to the unidentified plaintiff’s $5 million lawsuit filed earlier this month. The woman claims Tyson raped her in a limousine, resulting in ‘physical, psychological and emotional injury’ in the years since […]
