The Ghana cedi has appreciated by 21.0% against the US dollar in nine months of 2025. However, the local currency lost about 19% in value between late July 2025 and September 2025, after recording 40.5% appreciation as of July 2025. According to the Bank of Ghana’s September 2025 Summary of Economic and Financial Data, the […]
Police have physically removed The Gambia’s auditor general, Momodou Ceesay, from his office after he refused to give up the post, in a government reshuffle carried out by President Adama Barrow. Ceesay, who has spent almost three years as auditor general in the West African state, says he had turned down Barrow’s recent offer to […]
The number of people in Japan aged 100 or older has risen to a record high of nearly 100,000, its government has announced. Setting a new record for the 55th year in a row, the number of centenarians in Japan was 99,763 as of September, the health ministry said on Friday. Of that total, women […]
The Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) has raised alarm over the escalating cost of contesting presidential elections, warning that democracy risks being captured by the wealthy elite. At an Open Society forum in Accra, the think tank’s Executive Director, Professor H. Kwasi Prempeh, revealed that it now requires an estimated $200 million to mount […]
The Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference has called on President John Mahama to immediately declare a state of emergency in areas ravaged by illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey. In a strongly worded pastoral message, the bishops warned that galamsey “ravages our rivers and forests, poisons our soil, endangers public health, corrupts governance, erodes our moral […]
Former Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has paid tribute to Apostle Kwadwo Safo, the founder of Kristo Asafo Church and Kantanka Group of Companies, who died last Thursday, at age 77, saying he “served Ghana beyond the capacity of a religious leader.” Reacting to the news of the passing of Apostle Safo, Dr Bawumia described […]
The National Anti-Illegal Mining Operations Secretariat (NAIMOS) has demolished more than 300 makeshift structures and destroyed several equipment in a three-day operation along polluted water bodies in the Western Region. The crackdown, which began last Thursday and ended last Saturday, saw members of the NAIMOS task force work with Blue Water Guards to dismantle galamsey […]
The Food and Beverages Association of Ghana (FABAG) says the proposed upward review of electricity tariffs by the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) will cripple businesses, trigger job losses, and derail government’s 24-hour economy policy. In a strongly worded statement, the Association described the planned increases as “a recipe for disaster.” It said the business […]
The President of the Ghana Stammering Association, Emmanuel Addo, has advised fluent speakers to desist from completing the sentences of People Who Stammer (PWS) during conversations. He explained that while fluent communicators may assume they are being helpful, completing the statements of persons who stammer prevents them from fully expressing themselves and being truly heard. […]
The Convenor of FixTheCountry, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, has announced that the movement will hold a vigil on Sunday, September 21, at Revolution Square in Accra, to protest the ongoing environmental destruction caused by illegal mining (galamsey). He disclosed the plan in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday, 15 September 2025, stressing the urgent need […]
The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) has confirmed that two Air Peace pilots tested positive for alcohol and cannabis following a runway excursion at Port Harcourt International Airport on July 13, 2025. A preliminary accident report, signed by the NSIB’s Director of Public Affairs and Family Assistance, Mrs. Bimbo Olawumi Oladeji, revealed that the Boeing […]
Larry Ellison briefly became the world’s richest person Wednesday before ending the day just $1 billion shy of the lead. The uber-billionaire is still on the verge of becoming the world’s richest person, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, growing his net worth $88 billion Wednesday, briefly toppling longtime title holder Elon Musk from his […]
