The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has set Thursday, October 5, 2023, as the new date for the Elective Congress to be staged in Tamale. According to a GFA statement yesterday, the congress agenda starts with the election of the FA president followed by election of Women’s Premier League representative, three Division One League and five Premier League representatives, in that ...
It’s a few minutes to 4 p.m. I weave precariously through Accra’s ill-fated gridlock, en route to the South Korean Embassy. The decision on my visa application is ready, per the Embassy’s call over an hour ago. Ordinarily, this should be a leisurely twenty-minute ride, a far cry from this Friday’s madness. I called the Embassy to inform them I ...
MinoHealth AI Labs — based in my home city of Accra, Ghana’s capital — specialises in providing artificial intelligence for healthcare applications, such as medical image interpretation. I started the company in 2016 while living in Europe and returned to Ghana the next year, aiming to deploy deep learning (DL) to aid hospital diagnoses for diseases from diabetes to breast ...
Ghana has still emerged as the country across the globe with the highest outstanding loan under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust (PRGT) at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The Poverty Trust which is one of the funds countries can draw credit from is specifically to support the potential balance of payment problems of low-income countries over a period of ...
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) has commenced its regular meetings to review developments in the economy. This is the 114th meeting of the Committee and is expected to decide on steps to ensure financial and economic stability. Dominating the MPC meeting will be the policy rate decision aimed at taming inflation and ensuring price ...
The Nebraska-Ghana Trade and Investment Program and Husker Harvest Days event, which saw the participation of twenty two (22) Ghana Government officials and Private Businesses, has ended successfully in Lincoln, Nebraska. The event, held from 11th to 14th September 2023, under the theme – Facilitating Opportunities, has been described by participants as one of the most well-organized Trade and Investment ...
Recent data from the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), show that the Producer Price Inflation (PPI) for the month of August 2023 fell marginally to 28.3% from the 32.9% recorded in July 2023. This represents a 4.6 percentage point decrease in producer inflation relative to the rate recorded in July 2023 PPI is the average price of goods and services received ...
The economy of Ghana saw a 3.2% growth in the second quarter of 2023 according to provisional data from the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS). When seasonally adjusted, the real GDP increased by 0.7 percent in the second quarter of 2023, a 0.1 percentage point lower than what was recorded in the first quarter of 2022. Provisional real quarterly gross domestic ...
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has held an interactive engagement with affiliated Ministry of Health Training Institutions to discuss issues on new top-up programmes and other matters affecting the Health training institutions on the 14th of August 2023 at the College of Health Sciences Board Room. Chairing the meeting, Professor Christian Agyare, the Provost of the College ...
The 2022/23 Students’ Representative Council (SRC) of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, has commissioned a bus shelter at the Ahinsan Gate, a project valued at Ninety Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH₵90,000). Additionally, they also donated One Hundred and Fifty (150) class-room chairs to support students’ learning at the Ulzen Block. Master Frank Owusu, President, 2022/23 Students’ Representative Council (SRC) ...