Day: June 17, 2025

Accra: President John Dramani Mahama has attributed Fitch Ratings’ upgrade of Ghana’s Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to ‘B-Minus’ with a stable outlook from Restricted Default (RD) to prudent economic management embarked upon by the government. Speaking at the opening of the 2025 Ghana-European Union Partnership Dialogue in Accra, President Mahama emphasized Ghana’s steady macroeconomic recovery and fiscal governance. According to Ghana News Agency, the Dialogue was attended by all 10 ambassadors of EU member countries resident in Ghana and over 10 Ghanaian Ministers of State. President Mahama reiterated the government’s commitment to restoring macroeconomic stability through prudent fiscal

Dakar: Financial and philanthropic leaders have called for inclusive fintech solutions and policy reforms to close the digital and financial divide-particularly for rural women entrepreneurs. They emphasised the need for rigorous tracking of remittance impacts on women and the development of gender-responsive investment mechanisms. They made the call during a Regional Conference on ‘Sustainable Philanthropy and Remittances for Gender Equality’ held in Dakar, Senegal. According to Ghana News Agency, the forum was co-hosted by UN Women and the Ford Foundation and brought together over 150 thought leaders from philanthropy, finance, government, technology, and civil society. In a release copied to

Accra: Dr Stephen Amoah, Member of Parliament for Nhyiaeso, has advocated the urgent need to include entrepreneurship as a core subject in the Junior High School (JHS) academic curricula and as an elective course in the Senior High School (SHS) curricula, respectively. The legislator believes that integrating entrepreneurship into the education system will ignite students’ interest and enable them to create their own businesses after school, thus reducing youth unemployment and easing the pressure on the government to find public sector jobs for graduates. According to Ghana News Agency, Dr Stephen Amoah made these remarks in a statement read on

Kassena-Nankana West: For years, the people of Kassena-Nankana West District in Ghana’s Upper East Region have watched helplessly as their land suffer the harsh weight of climate change. According to Ghana News Agency, wildfires, once seasonal threats, became annual threats, devouring farmlands, destroying forest reserves, and leaving trails of charred earth where crops once flourished. Human activities including cutting down of trees for charcoal, burning farm and forest residues for agricultural purposes, and hunting for bushmeat have constantly depleted many forest reserves, farmlands, and economic trees such as baobab, dawadawa, and mangoes, destabilizing the ecosystem and biodiversity. The rains have

North Tongu: Mr. Daniel Glikpo, the North Tongu District Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), has called on Ghanaian youth to take a leading role in addressing plastic pollution through responsible environmental practices. He disclosed this at a district-level commemoration of World Environment Day 2025, where he underscored the urgency of adopting sustainable waste management habits, especially among younger generations. According to Ghana News Agency, the event was held under the global theme, ‘Ending Plastic Pollution,’ and the sub-theme, ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.’ Mr. Glikpo emphasized the increasing threat plastic waste poses to the environment and urged young

Accra: Women are an integral part of the fishing industry of Ghana; they are the invisible hands powering the sector, from canoe-side processing to smoked fish marketing. According to Ghana News Agency, while most women in the fish processing sector focus on smoking fresh fish for the market, Mrs. Mabel Ibidun Quarshie, a 61-year-old former banker turned agripreneur, is leveraging more potential in the industry to change the narrative. She is the founder and CEO of Acquatic Foods Limited, a fish processing business that is redefining how Ghanaians view, eat, and profit from fish. Her journey began with loss, detoured

Beijing: A cup of hot Chinese tea is not just steamy but alluring and savory and surely leads to a lingering taste experience. Tea is one of the greatest inventions by China and a priceless gift to the world, contributing immensely to the health and civilisation of humanity. Chinese tea, with an ancient origin, can be traced back to the era of the enigmatic ruler, Shennong, a man who is renowned as the ‘Father of Chinese Medicine’. According to Ghana News Agency, fueled by an insatiable thirst for knowledge, Shennong is said to have immersed himself in the dews and