South Africa’s Shoprite Holdings will lay off 115 staff and close another Kenyan store, less than a year after its opening as part of the supermarket’s expansion into the east African country, a letter seen by Reuters shows and the company confirmed.
In the letter, addressed to the Kenyan Union...
The 3% levy charged all consumers of electricity for street lighting has generated GH¢273.9million of revenue to government in 2018 and 2019, Energy Minister John Peter Amewu said when he appeared before Parliament to answer questions from members last Thursday.
“In summary, a total amount of GH¢273,876,832 was collected by...
The Sickle Cell Foundation of Ghana (SCFG), in collaboration with Novartis, has developed a mobile digital application (App) to help manage the data collected on newborns in the National Newborn Screening Programme for Sickle Cell Disease (NNSP-SCD). This initiative forms part of the Mission of the SCFG and its...
Government has made savings of GH¢1.5billion in underdeclared taxes since implementation of the Common Platform (CP) in the telecommunications sector since 2017.
“The introduction of the CP has uncovered that, prior to the introduction of the policy, GH¢470million in taxes was lost from potential underdeclarations between 2015 to the first...
Everything seemed so surreal and unimaginable. It felt like the virus was only in Asia and would be stopped before it reached us here in Africa and Ghana. From Asia, we heard it was in Europe, then America.
Before we could even blink, the first few cases emerged in some...
To support businesses come out of the pandemic’s quagmire and hasten the so much needed economic recovery, some reforms aimed at lessening the tax burden on businesses must be implemented, global auditing giant Deloitte has proposed.
In its post-Mid-year Budget analysis report, the auditing firm has proposed a raft of...
Jobberman, the leading recruitment digital portal in Ghana has introduced skills assessments as a more objective means by which employers and recruiters can hire new team members.
The skills assessments are the first of its kind to be introduced by any job portal in Ghana and its main objective is...
Banks in the country are ready to finance projects and programmes in the private and public sectors with potential to revive the economy irrespective of COVID-19 prevalence, panellists at the fifth edition of the B&FT-organised Ghana’s Most Respected CEOs Breakfast Series, have said.
The panel, made up of bankers, economists...
Rejuvenate Gaia Global has donated 450 bags of Greenfert organic granular fertilizer to support the second edition of the annual Women in Food and Agric Leadership Training Forum & Expo (WOFAGRIC) being organized by Agrihouse Foundation in Kumasi.
The event, which starts today, Thursday August 6 to Friday August 7,...
The overall impact of National Service Scheme (NSS) on the economy of Ghana can never be over-emphasized. The truth of the matter is that many young graduates have in one way or the other served the country and that cannot be taken for granted. In my final year in...