Business

European chocolate firms ripping off cocoa farmers—COCOBOD CEO

July 12, 2022

The Chief Executive Officer of COCOBOD, Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has accused European companies that buy cocoa beans from Ghana and Ivory Coast of deliberately setting conditions that always keep the global prices of cocoa beans down. According to him, cocoa farmers from the two countries have been made worse off due to unfair pricing regime […]Continue Reading

Business

IMF team to engage Bawumia, Parliament today

July 12, 2022

The visiting team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is expected to engage the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, today as part of its data gathering and engagement with the government. This is one of the high-level meetings that the team will be holding together with the government’s policy and technical team. Joy Business is […]Continue Reading

NEWS

Supreme Court preserves key evidence against former SSNIT boss Ernest Thompson

July 12, 2022

The Supreme Court has, in a unanimous decision, dismissed a case filed by former Director-General of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), Ernest Thompson. The court turned down his request to set aside two Special Audit Reports on the operation of an Operational Business Suite acquired by SSNIT. Mr. Thompson is accused of […]Continue Reading

SPORTS

I am ready to extend my contract and play in Africa with Hearts of Oak – Sulley Muntari

July 12, 2022

Accra Hearts of Oak midfielder, Sulley Muntari, has expressed his desire to extend his current contract with the club and join the team in their quest to conquer Africa. Muntari joined the Phobians earlier this year on a six-month deal, helping them to secure the 2022 President’s Cup as well as beating Bechem United to […]Continue Reading

Crime

6 persons arrested for lynching man at Aburansa

July 12, 2022

The Central Region Police Command has arrested six persons suspected to be linked to a lynching incident at Aburansa. According to eyewitnesses, some residents beat the 28-year-old mechanic to death after they claimed that, he looked like a murderer. Festus Eduafo was lynched at Aburansa when he was en route to Aborbeano to visit his […]Continue Reading

ENTERTAINMENT

Sista Afia’s mother wows patrons at Ghana Music USA

July 12, 2022

The 2022 edition of the Ghana Music Awards USA came off over the weekend. One of the highlights of the event was when musician Sista Afia performed with her mother on stage. In a video she shared on social media, the singer called her mother, known as Mama G, to the stage surprising the audience […]Continue Reading

EDUCATION

New book ‘The Usurper’s Dream’ explores Ashanti Empire’s deity, gods and magic

July 12, 2022

The West has been very deliberate in creating its local heroes in recent times. Fiction has been a way of doing this through the advent of characters – many of which have become household names, while others have been morphed into movies and animations produced by Marvel Studios, DC Comics and others. Yeayi Kobina was […]Continue Reading

POLITICS

Go beyond your jurisdictions to help tackle human trafficking – MP to world leaders

July 12, 2022

Member of Parliament (MP) for Mpraeso, Davis Ansah Opoku, has asked all world leaders to collectively help fight human trafficking. The lawmaker said the menace cannot be fought by individual countries alone. He, however, acknowledged the importance of local interventions in tackling the problem. Go beyond your jurisdictions to help tackle human trafficking – MP […]Continue Reading

Foreign

Twitter hits back at Elon Musk over breach of obligations

July 12, 2022

Twitter fired back at Elon Musk on Monday, accusing the world’s richest person of “knowingly” breaching an agreement to buy the social media firm. It comes days after the Tesla CEO sought to back out of the $44 billion deal, accusing Twitter of breaching its obligations under the merger agreement. In a letter sent to […]Continue Reading

NEWS

LCI car sale saga: Larry Odonkor apologises to Lighthouse pastor in Madagascar

July 12, 2022

Embattled former pastor of Lighthouse Chapel International (LCI), Larry Odonkor has apologized to his former junior pastor, Rev. Edmund Amartey following some revelations made in a rejoinder by the latter on the circumstances surrounding the sale of a car belonging to the church. In the apology, Larry Odonkor admits Rev. Edmund’s claims which were backed […]Continue Reading