Ghana lost about $9.8 million to cybercrime in 2022, according to the Cyber Security Authority (CSA). Many of these crimes include mobile money fraud, fake online shops, email scams, and data theft.
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Discover how 62% of Ghana’s CHPS compounds are ghost facilities, leaving rural communities without healthcare. This investigative report exposes corruption, empty clinics, maternal deaths, and the urgent need for reform in Ghana’s primary healthcare system.
“Why isn’t Harvard saying that almost 31% of their students are from FOREIGN LANDS, and yet those countries, some not at all friendly to the United States, pay NOTHING toward their student’s [sic] education, nor do they ever intend to.”
The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) has clarified that it is not waiting for a 60-day window before reducing prices of made-in-Ghana products. Rather, the Association emphasized that price reductions are already underway, as manufacturers respond to recent improvements in the macroeconomic environment.
Adwoa works hard on her 15-acre cocoa farm. With the help of these trees, she’s increased her cocoa harvest by 50%. But her carbon earnings for the whole year? Just $14.72. Meanwhile, big chocolate companies in Europe are making over $120 million by trading carbon credits from trees like hers.
Adwoa is one of 140,000 cocoa farmers in Ghana who joined the REDD+ program. It promised that farmers would get paid for protecting trees and reducing deforestation. But in her region, Western North, nearly 92% of farmers have no formal land documents. Because of this, their trees don’t count in the digital systems used to trade carbon. They are left out.
President John Dramani Mahama has officially inaugurated the eighth National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), charging the body to craft a comprehensive, long-term development blueprint that transcends political administrations and secures Ghana’s future prosperity.
A newly constituted 13-member Board of Directors has officially been sworn in to steer the affairs of the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBoD).
An Accra-based District Court has remanded a 46-year-old police inspector into custody for allegedly causing the death of a senior officer during a patrol operation.
Mr. John Senya, Organiser of the Ashanti Regional Poultry Farmers Association and CEO of Senya Farms, is calling on government to reconsider its funding approach under the much-anticipated Nkoko Nkentenkente poultry farming initiative, aimed at tackling Ghana’s soaring youth unemployment.
The Kumasi High Court has sentenced 36-year-old Dominic Afriyie, popularly known as “GH,” to 120 years in prison with hard labour for two counts of robbery, and life imprisonment for murder.