The Producer Price Inflation(PPI) rate for April 2022 is? 31.2 percent, the Ghana Statistical Service said on Wednesday. The rate represents a 1.9 percentage point increase in producer inflation relative to the rate recorded in March, 2022 of 29.3 per cent. Professor Samuel Kobina Annim, the Government Statistician, said the month-on-month change in the producer … The post Producer

The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) is asking the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to further increase the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) to 19 percent. The proposed increment will be a 200-basis rise in the current policy rate of 17 percent, and comes as the Committee prepares to announce its … The post IEA proposes hike in Monetary Policy

Togolese authorities have reopened the country’s land borders after two years of closure. The borders were reopened from the midnight of Tuesday, May 17, 2022 after they were shut in March 2020, due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. A statement sighted by the Ghana News Agency (GNA) and jointly signed by Mr Payadowa Boukpessi and … The post Togo reopens land borders to

Mrs Rita Nupe Botchway, a Project Officer at the Legal Resources Centre (LRC), says the Community Service Bill when passed into law, would reduce the excess number of inmates in the prisons. She said the Bill would also ensure that offenders such as parents and caregivers sentenced would be able to carry out their punishments … The post Community

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) and African Petroleum Producers’ Organization (APPO) have agreed to establish an African energy bank to address the threat faced by the continent’s oil and gas industry. The two organisations have therefore signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in that regard. The MoU copied to Ghana Business News states among others: … The post Afreximbank

The Accra High Court trying ten persons for high treason has ordered Mr Kabral Mohammed Ayambillah, a prosecution’s witness, to produce the imaging (visual presentation) of data extracted from the WhatsApp conversation of the alleged coup plot. Imaging is the process of making a visual representation of something by scanning it with a detector or … The post Treason

National Service Personnel have been paid their March allowance on Monday, May 16, 2022, Madam Gifty Oware, the Deputy Executive Director, National Service Scheme, said on Tuesday. Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Accra, she said: “They have been paid. Just yesterday we paid the month of March awaiting to pay … The post March

Dr. George Peprah, Medical Superintendent at the Takoradi Hospital has urged the public not to hesitate in reporting stroke cases, especially whenever they observed symptoms of the disease to save the situation. He bemoaned the situation where most stroke cases got to the hospitals late coupled with the lackadaisical attitudes of health officers and the … The post Public

The Electoral Commission of Ghana has begun inspection of all registered political party offices across the country to ensure that they operate in accordance with the Political Parties Act. This forms part of the mandates by the EC as enshrined in the Political Parties Act 2000 (Act 574) to inspect political party offices and monitor … The post EC

An Accra Circuit Court has granted a GH¢20,000.00 bail with one surety to a student who allegedly took GH¢5,500.00 from a trader under the pretext of buying him laptops online. The Court presided over by Mr Emmanuel Essandoh ordered that the surety should be Archibald Therson-Cofie’s mother. Therson-Cofie, 19, pleaded not guilty to defrauding by … The post Court

The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has allayed fears of imminent shortage of fuel following reported shortage of petrol and diesel at some filling stations. The Authority said though some oil marketing companies recorded shortages at some of their outlets, there was no shortage of petroleum products in the country as speculated. It said as of … The post Current

President Macky Sall of Senegal has called on Africa’s development partners to agree to a renegotiation of the terms of the current multilateral system in light of shocks dealt to the global economy by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war between Russia and Ukraine. President Sall, also Chairperson of the African Union, made the call … The post Renegotiation

ActionAid Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organisation, has appointed Mr John Nkaw as its new Country Director. A statement by the Board Chair of ActionAid Ghana, Nana Yaw Okyere-Aduachie, said Mr John Nkaw’s appointment took effect on May 1, 2022. He succeeds Sumaila Abdul-Rahman who resigned from office in August 2021. Until his recent appointment as Country Director, John Nkaw served as Head of … The post ActionAid

The State has closed its case involving the 14 alleged murderers of Major Maxwell Adams Mahama. The Prosecution presented 14 witnesses, who testified before the High Court and were cross examined by the lawyers for the accused persons. Police Chief Inspector Samuel Agyarkwa was the last prosecution witness to testify before the court presided over … The post Accused

Kete-Krachi District Court presided by Mr. Benjamin Bennette Atta Prah has remanded the driver who ran over six school children at Matamallam in the Krachi Nchumuru District of the Oti Region into police custody. Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Mr John Nchor, Oti Regional Police Public Relations Officer in a statement copied to the Ghana … The post Court

Norsaac, a civil society organisation, has called for an expeditious trial of a case in which a 14-year-old girl has accused her father of engaging in repeated sexual intercourse with her. Norsaac has also called on the Police to handle the case sensitively to ensure that the welfare of the girl remains topmost priority as … The post Norsaac demands expedited

Participants at a conference organised by the Community Court of Justice to examine the ECOWAS model of integration have urged the Community to establish a mechanism for monitoring the implementation of Community Laws. They also called for the strengthening of the Court’s regulatory functions and commonality in order to achieve the higher degree of supranationalism … The post West

A third of all Human Rights complaints filed at the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) last year, related to Child Rights. Data compiled by CHRAJ, and shared with the Ghana News Agency, indicate that out of a total of 8,412 Human Rights complaints filed in 2021, 2,791 of the cases, representing 32.2 … The post Child rights cases on the rise –

Dr Chantara Thevy Ratnam, an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) expert in Polymer Technology, has arrived in Ghana to assess a project plan to manage plastic waste using nuclear technology. The project under the Technical Cooperation project of IAEA is dubbed: “NUTEC Plastics”, an initiative by the government to manage plastic waste. During her 5-day … The post IAEA

Three suspects arrested for committing various crimes, have escaped lawful custody at the Tongo Police Station in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region. The suspects, Francis Dabang, Fawas Musah and Kojo Dinaya were assisting Police investigations and to be processed for court when they broke custody. Assistant Superintendent of Police, Mr David Fianko-Okyere, … The post Three