RAYLIZA GHANA | MONDAY, 24TH MARCH 2025
The US State Department has frozen nearly all foreign assistance worldwide effective immediately days after President Donald Trump issued a sweeping executive order Monday to put a hold on such assistance for 90 days. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent a cable, seen by CNN, to all US diplomatic posts on Friday outlining the move, which threatens billions of dollars of funding […]
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Nikki Haley ended her failed bid for the White House much like she spent the final weeks of campaigning: with a warning for her former Republican rival. “It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him,” she said, pausing. “And I hope he does that.” […]
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Armed gangs have stormed the main prison in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, releasing many inmates. The vast majority of about 4,000 men held there have now escaped, a local journalist told BBC News. Among those detained were gang members charged in connection with the 2021 killing of President Jovenel Moïse. Violence in Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, has worsened […]
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Simon Osei Mensah, the Ashanti Regional Minister, is set to hold a meeting with shop owners in Adum in Kumasi today. This meeting is to address the ongoing protests by the business leaders due to the struggling economy. The traders in Adum have since Monday closed their shops, while others in areas such as Bantama have replicated the action. Some […]
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It was educative, informative, and entertaining when all the five (5) public schools in Woe gathered on Friday, July 1, 2022, at the Rhema Full Gospel Church to participate in the Better Version of Me project. The initiative, which began in 2020, gathered over 800 teenage female students from five public schools in Woe: Aklorbordzi D.A Basic School, Salvation Army […]
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There have not been any panic withdrawals at various branches of both Capital and UT Banks, following GCB Bank’s takeover of both banks, Bank of Ghana has indicated. The Bank of Ghana confirmed the takeover of UT Bank and Capital Bank by GCB Bank in a statement on Monday morning, announcing that it had “approved a Purchase and Assumption transaction […]
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President Nana Akufo-Addo has said Ghana lost about $3 billion in economic activities during the power crisis that hit the nation under the Mahama administration. Akufo-Addo who quoted figures from the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) said the country lost about GHc618 million in economic activity in 2014 alone which he said is “equivalent to 2 percent […]
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The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has said it will investigate and sanction officials whose activities led to the collapse of UT Bank and Capital Bank. “The last phase of the BoG’s action would involve a thorough investigation of operations of UT Bank and Capital Bank and appropriate action will be taken against shareholders, Directors, and key a Management personnel who […]
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The re-branding of one of the two collapsed Ghanaian-owned banks, UT Bank, which has been taken over by GCB Bank, has started barely hours after the Bank of Ghana’s announcement. Citi News’ Anita Arthur reported from the headquarters of UT bank at Airport that the bank’s logo on the building has been replaced with that of GCB bank. She also added […]
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A former Health Minister, Alex Sebgefia is skeptical about government’s decision to restore allowances to trainee nurses. According to him the decision which has compelled government to also re-introduce the quota system for nursing training institutions is ill-informed and will only “create difficulties” for the government. “I think that they are creating difficulties for themselves because the allowance is not something that […]
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