Breast Care International (BCI) has urged the government to enact laws and regulations to ensure that pastors do not use concoctions or other treatments for breast cancer. According to Dr. Beatrice Wiafe-Addai, president of the organization, churches in Rwanda and Kenya are strictly regulated, which is yielding a lot of positive results, and Ghana should follow suit. According to her breast cancer is not caused by witchcraft or any other spiritual means, so patients should always seek treatment at health facilities rather than sleeping in prayer camps and hoping to be cured. At the breast cancer sensitisation and screening programme…
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A cargo of Russian oil is heading for storage tanks in Ghana, a nation that exports crude itself and is on the doorstep of two regional supply powerhouses. The development suggests that traders could be scouring the market for new buyers of Russian barrels after the European Union stopped almost all seaborne imports from the country in December. The bloc’s measures made Moscow hugely reliant on Chinese and Indian purchases. The tanker Theseus arrived in Ghana’s territorial waters on Friday carrying about 600,000 barrels of Russian oil from a port in the Black Sea, according to tanker tracking data compiled…
Ghana’s cedi, the world’s second-worst performing currency this year, is heading for more pain after the country missed a self-imposed deadline to restructure its bilateral debt and move closer to tapping foreign aid. Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta wanted to reach a restructuring agreement with bilateral creditors by the end of February to help qualify for a $3 billion International Monetary Fund program. So far, Ghana has only partially completed the domestic-debt part of the exchange program. The cedi has slumped 21% against the dollar in 2023, the worst performer among more than 100 currencies tracked by Bloomberg after the Lebanese pound. Still,…
Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Jean Mensa has revealed that the Ghana Card will not be a requirement in the casting of votes in the 2024 General Elections. However, she said that the Ghana Card will be the sole identity document to be used in the voter’s registration process in the acquisition of new Voters’ IDs if the new constitutional instrument is passed. “Mr. Speaker, I wish to emphasise that the Ghana card will not be used to vote in the 2024 elections, the Ghana Card is only a requirement to register as a voter,” she said in Parliament.…
The Electoral Commission (EC) has continued justification of its new Constitutional Instrument proposal presented to Parliament. EC Chairperson, Jean Mensa explained the rationale that informed her conclusion to use the Ghana Card as the only verification document in acquiring a Voters’ Identification Card. She admitted that the system employed by the National Identification Authority (NIA) in securing a Ghana Card is vibrant for which reason her outfit has decided to fall on their product. Jean Mensa made these comments after finally appearing before the House following a summon. “I think the NIA system is more robust because they have persons…
The Ghana Health Service has confirmed 12 additional cases of Lassa fever in the country. This follows an initial two cases reported in Accra on February 26. The 12 additional cases were discovered following the institution of control measures including contact tracing testing of all those who had been in close contact with the initial two confirmed cases. This brings to 14 the total number of confirmed cases for this outbreak. One death has so far been recorded. According to the GHS, “all 13 cases are alive and in stable condition and are being managed in designated health facilities. A…
President Akufo-Addo is confident Ghana will reach a final deal with the International Monetary Fund for a bailout at the end of this month following progressive talks with Chinese authorities for debt cancellation. According to him a meeting with the Chinese Exim Bank is progressing positively giving indication the country could seal a deal with the Paris club. He said this in an address at the annual ambassadors and high commissioners get-together at the Peduase lodge last night. “Just as we managed to get the staff level agreement in recorded time in December last year, whose terms we’re systematically fulfilling…
Ghana star Christian Atsu has been pulled alive and sound from the wreckage after spending 26 hours under the rubble following Monday dawn’s devastating earthquakes that hit Turkey. Hatayspor’s Vice President, Mustapha Ozat, has confirmed this in an interview, indicating that the club’s sporting director is still unaccounted for. “Christian Atsu was removed with injuries. Unfortunately, our sporting director Taner Savut is still under the rubble.” The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has also confirmed receiving the news of the 31-year-old’s recovery and asked for continuous prayers for the former Chelsea winger. “We’ve received some positive news that Christian Atsu has…
Christian Atsu’s local manager, Abdul Hayye Yartey, has described his rescue from the Turkey earthquake rubble as “huge and miraculous”. The Ghana winger was trapped in the debris of the devastating disaster that hit Turkey on Monday dawn for 26 hours. Yartey is relieved of the 31-year-old’s recovery alive after the building housing his apartment in Hatay collapsed, with 1000s across the globe fearing for his life. However, news broke on Tuesday of the Hatayspor attacker’s rescue. Reacting to the development, Yartey expressed his relief and elation: “This is huge and miraculous. To be under the debris for about 24…
Professor Godfred Bokpin, Professor of Finance and Economics at the University of Ghana Business School, has once again lashed out at Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, over the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme, saying, Ghana has all the opportunity to avoid defaulting on its bonds. According to him, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its Article IV in April 2022 cautioned the government over its unsustainable debt. “There were reasonable people in this country who started urging the government to go to the IMF. Now if you check Article IV surveillance that the IMF did running to April 2022, we considered that…
