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January 29, 2024

Ghana cuts policy rate to 29 per cent

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has cut the policy rate, the rate at which the Central Bank lend to commercial banks, by a 100-basis point, citing disinflation as the reason.

The reduction in the policy rate was announced by Dr Ernest Addison, G…

Businessman on GHC50,000.00 bail over visa fraud

An Accra Circuit Court has granted a GHC50,000.00 bail with two sureties to a businessman who allegedly defrauded a woman of UDS5,000 under the pretext of securing her a German visa.

Faisal Moro Mohammed, 31, denied defrauding Madam Mercy Sarfo as w…

Two jailed 45 years for robbing banker at gunpoint

Benjamin Aboagye, aka Rapture, has been sentenced to 35 years imprisonment by an Adentan Circuit Court for robbing a banker at gunpoint at Pantang, Accra.

This was after Aboagye, a 28-year-old musician, was found guilty at the end of the trial on ch…

Ghana losing too many young women to cervical cancer

Dr Promise Sefogah, General Secretary, Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Ghana, has expressed worry about how the country is increasingly losing many young women to cervical cancer.

Dr Sefogah said out of the 30 million population, abou…

Gov’t will continue to care for cured lepers – Veep

Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has reiterated the government’s commitment to eradicate leprosy in the country and care for those affected by the disease.

Vice President Bawumia gave the assurance in Accra on Sunday when he joined the Ghana Lepers A…