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Goldband data shows 98.8% of Ghana’s small scale gold exports went to Dubai and India in 2025
Posted on with No CommentData obtained by JoyNews Research from GoldBod through a Right to Information request shows that Ghana’s small scale gold exports in 2025 were overwhelmingly concentrated in just two markets. Of the 103,804 kilograms of small-scale gold exported through GoldBod in … Read more →
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Fuel prices to go up 5-10% in May
Posted on | CommentThe Chamber of Petroleum Consumers has predicted a 5 to 10% increment in fuel prices on the local market from May 1. “Fuel prices on the local market is set to go up by between 5-10% in the next petroleum … Read more →
Bank of Ghana injects $100 million into Agric sector
Posted on | CommentThe Bank of Ghana says it has initiated measures to address challenges facing the country’s agric sector as part of efforts to improve the sector’s contribution to economic growth. Agriculture’s contribution to GDP has been declining over the years partly … Read more →
Gov’t won’t privatise ECG – Prez Mahama
Posted on | CommentPresident John Dramani Mahama says government does not have any intention of privatising the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). In concluding his speech at the May Day celebrations at the Jubilee Park in Wa in the Upper West region, the president said, … Read more →
DISTURBING PHOTO: Woman boiled in soup
Posted on | CommentA 33-YEAR-OLD woman, alleged to have poured hot soup on a woman and her one-year-old daughter, has been arrested by the Kpone District police. The woman, Charlotte Teye, a chop bar operator and resident of Kpone, was said to have … Read more →
Groupe Nduom buys ISF Bank in Chicago
Posted on | CommentGroupe Nduom has completed the transaction to acquire a bank in the USA. This begins a new important and pioneering chapter in the entrepreneurial history of our multi-national group of companies. The acquisition of Illinois-Service Federal Savings Bank (ISF Bank) … Read more →
Former Cameroon airlines boss jailed for life for $56m graft
Posted on | CommentA court in Cameroon has jailed for life the former head of the defunct national carrier Camair, Yves Michel Fotso, on conviction of embezzling almost $56 million, legal sources said Tuesday. Fotso, already sentenced to 25 years behind bars in … Read more →
Ghana Police to get new uniform in August – IGP
Posted on | CommentThe Ghana Police Service would outdoor a new uniform in August this year, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) John Kudalor, has said. Addressing a durbar of the personnel at Wa on the second day of his official visit to … Read more →
Grades manipulation hit UPSA
Posted on | CommentGrades manipulation scheme at the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), formerly Institute of Professional Studies (IPS), has been uncovered. Documents available to Joy News reveal that 22 final year students of the school – who were supposed to graduate, last … Read more →
US$3.1m SIF support for 4,000 farmers
Posted on | CommentThe Social Investment Fund (SIF) is to provide US$3.1 million in loans to about 4,000 farmers to boost agribusiness across 22 selected districts in the country. Executive Director of the Fund, Mr Joseph Acheampong said 40 per cent of the … Read more →
Takoradi: Mad woman’s baby stolen
Posted on | CommentA newly born baby girl belonging to a mentally-derailed woman in the Sekondi Takoradi Metropolis has been reported stolen. According to the Department of Social Welfare in the Sekondi Takoradi Metropolitan Area (STMA), all efforts to trace the individual who … Read more →
Bank charges up by 100%
Posted on | CommentBanks in the country have began charging almost 100 percent increase in tariffs for maintenance of personal and corporate current accounts as well as other charges, Business Finder understands. The financial intermediaries say the increases have become necessary because of … Read more →
Tidal waves kill Fisherman at Axim
Posted on | CommentTidal waves that ravaged several homes and displaced many residents in the Nzema East municipality of the Western Region last Sunday led to the death of a fisherman. Residents of Brawire and Akyenim, both suburbs of Axim, capital of the … Read more →
Accra: Man beheads son
Posted on | CommentA 34-year-old man has beheaded his three-year-old son and hanged himself at Ablekuma Pentagon in Accra. The deceased, Philip Dzakpasu according to reports, slit the throat his son, Kelvin Mawuli Dzakpasu in his sleep on Tuesday. The cause of his … Read more →
Charlotte Osei’s explanation on EC’s new logo “Juvenile nonsense” – Lecturer
Posted on | CommentSenior Political Science lecturer of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr Richard Amoako Baah has pooh-poohed the explanations given by the Electoral Commission boss, Madam Charlotte Osei regarding the commission’s decision to come out with a … Read more →
FPSO: Why the frequent breakdown
Posted on | CommentTHE frequent irregular breakdowns of the Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) Kwame Nkrumah vessel have dire implications on the country, energy think-tank Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) has said. According to Dr Ishmael Ackah, Head of Policy Unit … Read more →
New York First Lady receives Ghanaian students (PHOTOS)
Posted on | CommentWife of New York Mayor, Chirlane McGray has commended efforts by governments in developing nations to improve the lives of young people and position them ahead of imminent challenges posed by the new world order. First Lady McGray made the … Read more →
Central University Students crashed to death by tipper truck
Posted on | CommentNews just in suggests three students of the Law Faculty of the Central University College in Prampram have been crashed to death by a tipper truck, Tuesday evening. Details about the fatal crash are sketchy but sources say damage to … Read more →
2,469 fire outbreaks recorded in first quarter of 2016
Posted on | CommentTwo thousand four hundred and sixty nine (2,469) fire outbreaks have been recorded within the first quarter of the year as against 2,036 within the same period in 2015; representing 21.27 per cent increase, the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) … Read more →
WASSCE ‘connection’: 2 arrested for extorting monies from SHS students (PHOTO)
Posted on | CommentTwo persons have been arrested by the Nungua District Police Command for allegedly extorting monies from final-year students of three senior high schools (SHSs) in Accra, on the pretext of helping them to pass their West African Senior Secondary Certificate … Read more →
Father of 3 commits suicide
Posted on | CommentKOFI NTI, a 42-year-old mobile money agent resident at Junction 1 near the Koforiuda Polytechnic in the Eastern Region, allegedly committed suicide last Monday morning. The deceased purportedly hanged himself on a mango tree with a nylon rope following the … Read more →
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