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The Producer Price Inflation (PPI) for January 2023 fell marginally to 52.1%, from 52.2% recorded in December 2022. According to data from the Ghana Statistical Service, the Mining and Quarrying (68.2%), Transport and Storage (62.6%) and Manufacturing (53.3%) recorded rates above the national average, while Information and Communication Activity recorded …

Minister of State designate for Local Government, Decentralisation, and Rural Development, Osei Bonsu Amoah, says President Akufo-Addo has taken steps to cut spending and reduce the country’s debt problem by scrapping some ministries established during his first administration. These ministries, according to him, include Special Development Initiatives, Regional Reorganisation, Aviation, …

Project Consultancy Firm in the Builsa South District, FASOTA Limited has rejected a directive from the Builsa South District Assembly to relocate some projects to a different location. According to the company, the projects in question are from GETFund hence they cannot carry out the Assembly’s orders without approval from …

Jurgen Klopp bemoaned his side’s individual errors as Liverpool slipped to a 5-2 defeat against Real Madrid on Tuesday.The home side appeared to be in complete control at Anfield after goals from Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah had given the Reds a deserved 2-0 lead within 14 minutes. Salah’s goal …

The national headquarters of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) at Adabraka in Accra will be scenes of activities as the party opens nominations for its presidential and parliamentary elections. The two-day exercise would kick-start the processes for the final leg of the party’s internal elections to elect presidential and …

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and his deputy Riek Machar have agreed to scrap a controversial law that allows the National Security Services (NSS) to arrest people without an arrest warrant. This is a significant part of reforms agreed in a peace agreement to end a brutal six-year civil war. …

The Deputy Majority Leader in Parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has urged the House to draft and pass a new law, through the efforts of private members to prohibit children under 16 from consuming and using social media. “In that law, offending parents or guardians, through whose negligence and or acquiescence children …

Meandering through the bustling traffic in Nigeria’s main city, Lagos, Oyewumi Azeez Olawale makes his way to a visa appointment. Just a year ago, the Nigerian medical student was scrambling to find safe passage out of Ukraine after the Russian bombardment began on 24 February. But with other studying options …

A former Minister of Finance, Dr Kwabena Duffuor, has said the domestic debt exchange programme (DDEP) is not a panacea for fixing the broken economy.According to him, debt treatment was only an aspect of the fiscal tool box needed to fix such an ailing economy and could, therefore, not be …

The Ministry of Health (MoH) is collaborating with all stakeholders to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by the year 2030. The ministry gave the assurance at a public forum where stakeholders bemoaned the slow pace of delivering the 2030 global UHC agenda. Speaking at the forum in Accra, a policy …