StarLife Assurance, a leading life insurance company in Ghana, has presented a cheque of GH¢10,000 to a member of the Old Toms (St. Thomas Aquinas SHS) 1997 Year Group as first claim payment to its newly introduced ‘My Clique’ life insurance policy. The StarLife ‘My Clique’ Plan which was launched 3 months ago is a […] The post StarLife Assurance pays first

OmniBSIC Bank has extended its profitability by one more quarter, in an impressive streak of gains that have now become part of the bank’s brand. The indigenous lender posted a gross profit of GH¢36.93 million in the third quarter of this year to sustain its profit run and cement a turnaround that begun in the […] The post OmniBSIC Bank in

Sammy Gyamfi, the National Communications Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is not giving Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, some slack following current economic challenges. Mr. Gyamfi seems not to fathom why the head of government’s Economic Management Team who was hailed by New Patriotic Party members as an “economic messiah” has remained […] The post Sammy

The Rotaract Club of Obuasi and Rotaract club of Kumasi all in the Ashanti Region in collaboration with Arise 2 Connect Africa, have renovated the kindergarten block of Boete Basic School. The groups also stocked up the library of the school in Boete, a suburb of Obuasi.   The Rotary Clubs say the decision to […] The post Obuasi and Kumasi Rotaract

If steps are not taken to curb the rampant increase in the prices of fuel at the country’s filling stations, the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers Ghana (COPEC) predicts that fuel prices could reach GHS18 per litre by the end of the year. ‘We are now hitting GHS15 per litre for fuel,’ according to Duncan Amoah, Executive […] The post Fuel

Over the weekend, fuel prices have shot up to almost GHS16 per litre at some stations in the country. At a leading Oil Marketing Company, Total Energies, for instance, the price of Diesel now stands at GHS15.99 while petrol sells for GHS13.10. This is a sharp rise from the GHS11.06 per litre for petrol and […] The post Fuel prices jump to almost GHS16/litre appeared first on

Over the weekend, fuel prices have shot up to almost GHS16 per litre at some stations in the country. At a leading Oil Marketing Company, Total Energies, for instance, the price of Diesel now stands at GHS15.99 while petrol sells for GHS13.10. This is a sharp rise from the GHS11.06 per litre for petrol and […] The post Fuel prices jump to almost GHS16 per litre appeared first

Over 6000 youth passed out on Friday (14 October 2022) under the Youth Employment Agency’s Community Health Worker (CHW) module across the 16 regions of Ghana. For the very first time, the beneficiaries are going to receive a monthly allowance of GHC500, an improvement on the GHC250 that was received by their previous cohorts. CHW […] The post YEA employs 6000 Community

Recent flooding in Nigeria has become an “overwhelming” disaster, and many states were not properly prepared for them despite warnings, the minister for disaster management has said. More than 600 people have died in the worst flooding the West African nation has seen in a decade. Some 1.3 million people have been displaced, and more […] The post Nigeria

The three-day football scouting tournament organised by Africa 1 Media and sponsored by FBNBank has successfully ended with coaches and scouts discovering exciting football talents across age categories U-15 and U-17 at the Ajax Park on the University of Ghana campus in Accra. The Football scouting tournament, which was aimed at unearthing football talents brought […] The post FBNBank

The acting head of the African Centres for Disease Control (CDC), Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, has returned to Kenya after allegedly being mistreated over the weekend by immigration officials at Frankfurt airport in Germany. He said the immigration officials “imagine I want to stay back illegally”. Dr Ogwell was due to attend the World Health Summit […] The post Africa’s

The Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) is targeting a 30 percent to 40 percent increase in transport fares following the recent rise in prices of petroleum products. The union has said negotiations for the upward adjustment will begin tomorrow. In an interview with Citi News, the General Secretary of GPRTU, Godfred Abulbire, said such […] The post GPRTU

Self-styled evangelist Patricia Asiedua is expected in court later this morning over charges of defrauding by false pretence and charlatanic advertisements. The head pastor of Heaven Way International Church, also known as Nana Agradaa, is on trial for allegedly engaging in a money-doubling scam. The Circuit court has so far denied her bail on three […] The post Nana Agradaa trial continues

Over 500,000 candidates will sit for this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) which begins today, October 17, 2022. The examination which will last for one week will be written in 2,033 centres across the country. The students are expected to start with social studies and ICT papers. The Ghana Education Service ahead of the […] The post 2022