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While people have long valued smartphones for their power, convenience, and usability, they’ve also expected a mobile device that blends versatility with portability. At Samsung Electronics, our drive to deliver the ultimate mobile experience has always been guided by the needs of our users. This unwavering commitment to meeting their evolving needs has driven the development and ongoing refinement of innovative form factors that consistently redefine the parameters of mobile experiences.Introduced in 2019, the first Galaxy Fold was a completely new form factor that combined the portability of a smartphone with the extensive productivity of a tablet, challenging conventional perceptions…

Ghana stands at a critical crossroads in its public health trajectory. As tobacco-related illnesses continue to claim lives and burden the nation’s healthcare system, there is a need to propose a workable solution, like some countries have, and adopt a more pragmatic approach to tobacco control. While smoking rates in Ghana are lower than in many other African countries, tobacco still poses a public health concern, contributing to chronic illnesses such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), lung cancer, ischemic heart disease, and stroke.Each year, thousands of Ghanaians suffer or die prematurely due to smoking-related diseases. Though smoking prevalence is…

Some Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) have started reducing prices of petroleum products at the pumps again.  This is the second time this week fuel prices have gone down at the pumps for the second pricing window of June. The reduction, JOYBUSINESS understands, is a result of competition among some major OMCs due to a price war. Competition in the Petroleum Products Market (Price War) Market leader, Star Oil, on June 19, 2025, announced that it has dropped the price of petrol again from GH₵10.99 per litre to GH₵10. 80. Diesel, which was selling at GH₵12.77 has also reduced to GH₵12.13…

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has charged four high-ranking public officials in connection with a brazen attempt to illegally claim and auction 10 containers of imported rice at the Tema Port.According to a statement issued via the OSP’s official X (formerly Twitter) account, the accused—Issah Seidu of the National Insurance Commission, James Keck Osei, a former director at the Office of the Vice President, and Customs officers John Abban and Peter Archibald Hyde—allegedly conspired to divert rice shipments imported from Thailand in 2022.Investigators say Seidu masterminded the fraudulent scheme by using fake documents, including one bearing a forged…

Kennedy Agyapong, former MP for Assin Central In a bold political move aimed at solidifying his base ahead of the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) upcoming presidential primaries, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has officially declared his intention to contest for the party’s flagbearership.The former Member of Parliament and businessman made the announcement during a closed-door meeting with 268 former Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) at his private office in Accra.The engagement, described by political observers as a strategic show of force, saw Mr. Agyapong outline his vision for Ghana, centered on job creation, economic empowerment, and radical decentralisation of governance.“As…

The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has issued a strong rebuke to two senior party figures, Ernest Owusu Bempah and Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye, warning them to cease their public feud over allegiance to rival presidential hopefuls.The decision was made at a high-level NEC meeting held in Accra on Tuesday, June 18, 2025, chaired by Acting National Chairman Danquah Smith Buttey.Owusu Bempah, who serves as a Deputy National Communications Officer, has been a vocal supporter of Kennedy Agyapong, a former contender in the party’s presidential race. Abronye, the Bono Regional Chairman, has openly…

Chief Executive of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly, Richard Ofori Agyemang Boadi, is optimistic of completing the second phase of the Kejetia Market redevelopment project in two years. The project which stalled for some months, is now progressing steadily as contractors work to install and erect critical installations and infrastructural equipment at the facility. Speaking on the sidelines of his tour to some schools during the BECE in Ashanti Region, Mr. Boadi Agyeman disclosed that the government has assured of releasing funds by July 2025 to complete the market project. “We are expecting to have some releases from the central government…

It is not in the least bit surprising that America’s President Donald John Trump would so cavalierly and nonchalantly tell Ms. Giorgia Meloni, the Prime Minister of Italy, who was at the time visiting with him at the White House, that he could not tell the difference between the Republic of Congo, with its administrative capital city of Brazzaville, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), formerly called Zaire, with Kinshasa as its capital or administrative headquarters.And yet, the hip-shooting MAGA Revolutionary who has been widely described by his critics and some political analysts and commentators as being disposed towards…

An economist at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi Prof. Mohammed Hadrat Yusif, has called for sweeping reforms to Ghana’s monetary policy framework, including granting operational independence to the Bank of Ghana (BoG). According to him, such reforms are essential to restoring macroeconomic stability and supporting long-term national development. Delivering his Professorial Inaugural Lecture, Prof. Yusif examined Ghana’s monetary policy history and its persistent structural weaknesses. The lecture, titled “Monetary Policy in Ghana: Revisiting the Tobin’s Model,” traced the economic divergence between Ghana and peer countries like South Korea and Malaysia, nations that were at similar…

Community Aid for Rural Development (CARD Ghana), a Non-Governmental Organization, has held a one-day capacity-building training on local governance structures and processes for networks of women and youth-led associations in the Upper West Region.The event, held on June 14, 2025, forms part of efforts to strengthen the She Leads Social Movement under the She Leads Project being implemented in the region with support from Plan International Ghana.The She Leads project aims to increase the sustained influence of girls and young women on decision-making and transform gender norms in formal and informal institutions.President of the She Leads Social Movement in the…