Economist, Dr. Ebo Turkson has predicted of dire implications on interest and exchange rates should inflation rise in May. According to him, this will have a negative impact on businesses and the economy entirely. “When prices increase generally, our exports become less competitive because our goods are more expensive than formerly. So inflation is not ...
The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has described as “wild”, “unsubstantiated” and “insensitive” comments made by Asempa FM presenter, Kojo Asare Baffour Acheampong popularly known as KABA on the death of Major Maxwell Mahama. According to the GAF, it was worried that such misleading information had been peddled in the media and it is ready to ...
Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the National Identification Authority (NIA), will issue the first of the proposed Ghana National Identity Card on September 15, 2017. According to Prof. Kenneth Agyemang Attafuah, Executive Secretary of the NIA, persons living in areas with good internet coverage will get their cards within 10 minutes of filling the appropriate forms, ...
Modern Women of Wisdom International (MWOW), a humanitarian organization, is advocating for improved access to opportunities for persons with albinism, as the world commemorates albinism day today. The organisation believes this could afford them avenues of social mobility. The group in a statement said “we urge the Government and stakeholders of modernization to construct a different world ...
The Minority in Parliament has accused government of misleading Ghanaians with its promise to abolish taxes on the importation of spare parts. Minority Spokesperson on Finance, Cassiel Ato Forson, contended that the Customs Amendment Bill approved by Parliament is aimed at getting the necessary legislative backing to remove the import duties on spare parts, is ...
Importers have warned they will increase the prices of goods within the coming months should government fail to halt the proposed 0.02 percent deductions on all imports outside the African Union (AU). President Nana Akufo Addo has indicated that cabinet has approved the deduction awaiting Parliamentary approval and implementation. In a speech read on his ...
Capital Bank has organised a training programme aimed at building the capacity of over 100 of its trade clients on the regulatory framework governing trade transactions. The event was also used to reward trade clients who have distinguished themselves over the past year. The participants, drawn from the northern sector of the country, were provided ...
A Cape Coast High Court has sentenced a 28 year-old sprinter bus driver to a fine of GH¢600.00 for careless and inconsiderate driving, negligently causing harm and driving without a license. The convict, Prosper Agbadzi, pleaded guilty to all the charges and will serve two months prison term or in default pay the fine. Police Chief ...
Eleven teams have qualified to the next level of the 2017 AgriTech Challenge hosted by the Kosmos Innovation Center. The teams qualified after impressing a jury with the presentation of their business plan pitches at an event held at the ISSER auditorium at the University of Ghana, Legon. The first in the series of three ...
The Member of Parliament for Savelugu, Mohammed Abdul Samed Gunu has said the rift between the appointed Municipal Chief Executive MCE of the area, Hajia Ayishetu Seidu and some aggrieved NPP constituency executives is likely to reduce their chances of winning the next elections. For the third consecutive time, the angry residents staged a demonstration ...
The Minority in Parliament has bemoaned government’s decision to reduce allocation to the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETfund) by 21%. According to the Minority, the reduction would affect project delivery under the GETFund. Speaking on the floor of the Parliament before approval of the GETfund Formula for the allocation of its GHc790 million, Deputy Minority ...
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has shut down six illegal landfill sites in the metropolis. The six include a huge site on the Mortuary Road, behind the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC) Other landfill sites within the Glefe, Okponglo, Adedenkpo, Tunga and Mallam Market areas have also been closed down. Currently, the Accra Metropolis has ...
Authorities at the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), have closed down all of the school’s campuses following a court ruling that some actions taken by the school’s council was illegal. According to a press statement signed by the registrar of the school, all of its campuses will remain closed until Friday, June 16, 2017. “In ...
US student Otto Warmbier has been freed from jail in North Korea, but his parents say he has been in a coma for a year. The US secretary of state said the 22-year-old was on his way home to the US. The Warmbier family told US media they had found out only last week that ...
Professor Francis Kofi Ampenyin Allotey, a renowned Ghanaian Mathematician and Scientist has been inducted as Fellow of the Nigerian Mathematical Society (NMS). The award was in recognition of Prof. Allotey’s outstanding contributions towards the advancement of mathematics, science and technology in Africa and across the globe. Other recipients of the 2017 NMS Fellows Award alongside ...
The Ministry of the Interior has reiterated its commitment to vigorously support government’s fight against illegal mining. It said the government will deal firmly with persons who carry out the illegal act regardless of their political affiliations and resistance. The Deputy Interior Minister, Henry Quartey, who made the comments said despite the resistance from some ...
The Ghana-Turkey Corporation and Development Association (TUDEC), has honored six gallant Ghanaians for their role in championing peace in the country at a Dinner held in Accra on Thursday, June 8, 2017. The annual dinner themed, Peace and Dialogue If tar, is organized during the month of Ramadan, to bring members of all religious affiliations ...
The Bolgatanga Magistrate Court has remanded into police custody five suspects for allegedly lynching a 67-year-old woman accused of being a witch at Yenboka Kenna, a town in Pelungu in the Nabdam Distrcit of the Upper East Region The five have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder. The suspects are Gbambil Sore, Kofi Pale, ...
A brand new Chevrolet saloon car which has been on display at the foyer of West Hills Mall since April has suddenly triggered off a wave of shopping which mall management describe as unprecedented. The Ghc120, 000 Chevrolet Cruise has only two weeks to remain on display as, come Republic Day – July 1, 2017 ...
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