What does having a female president or vice president mean to the girl-child in Ghana? It means a lot. Generally, it means the same thing that the male presidents and vice presidents have meant and still mean to our boy-children: a role-model they can identify with through gender and physique, a...
…blames COVID-19 constraints on businesses The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) would be losing GH¢8 million, a quarter of its projected tax revenue of GH¢32 million for the year, due to the impact of the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) on businesses within the metropolis. The assembly, was expecting to use part of...
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has said it is taking steps to address the recent brouhaha and accusations regarding under-declaring of taxes among telecommunications companies in the country; saying it is working on forwarding letters to them in a move to retrieve the ‘lost’ monies. This comes after the Minister...
Thirty-Six young Ghanaian students have been awarded scholarships for various master degree programmes in universities across Europe, under the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree Programme. This prestigious international study programme is part of the EU’s flagship educational and training programme, Erasmus+, which supports education, training, youth and sport in Europe. The...
The latest National Insurance Commission’s report has revealed that IBAG members earned a total brokerage income of GH¢134million in 2019 - up from GH¢113million in 2018. This represents a year on year growth of 19%. According to the report, the top-10 companies contributed a total of GH¢78.9million in 2019 compared...
The Ghana Premier League and Division One Football League and all other contact sports, including boxing, hockey and basketball, will resume on Friday, October 30, 2020, the government has announced. President Nana Akufo-Addo made this known on Sunday, September 20, 2020, during his 17th address to the nation on the...
- expressed deep appreciation to their parents and guardians President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has congratulated the graduating West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) and the about 531,674 Junior High School (JHS) three student who just completed their Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) 2020,...
To contain the spread and keep the fight against the deadly coronavirus pandemic ongoing, President Nana Akufo-Addo has, with Executive Instrument, extended the mandatory wearing of face masks by all persons to December as the number of active cases has dropped by more than 72 percent in three weeks. The...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has revealed that sixteen out of the twenty-three airlines that operated at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) prior to its closure have, again, commenced flights to and from Accra. According to him, currently, a total of 10,061 passengers have been tested at the KIA. The president...
MTN Ghana has said it tariffs have been revised following the passage of the Communication Services Tax (Amendment) Act, 2020 (Act 1025). In a statement issued by the telecommunication giant, MTN Ghana said the new tariffs reflect the 4 percent reduction in the Communication Services Tax. “Tariffs for all voice calls,...