A Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, Dr Mohammed Ibn Chambas has advised African governments to tackle corruption head on to ensure efficiency and development within the continent. Ibn Chambas made the call when he spoke at the maiden Ampomah-Martey-Alabi Leadership lecture organized by the University of Professional Studies ...
Minority Chief, Mubarak Muntaka, has pooh-poohed government’s 2018 budget and policy statement presented in Parliament today [Wednesday], November 15. Speaking to Citibusiness Editor, Vivian Kai Lokko after the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta had presented the budget in the law making house, Mr. Muntaka, MP for Asawase, said government failed to provide actual figures to back ...
The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta on Wednesday, November 15, 2017, presented the Akufo-Addo government’s 2018 Budget Statement and Economic Policy to Parliament. The budget highlighted results from the government’s policy programmes over the past months, and announced the government’s planned developmental programs for the next fiscal year. Among the major programs to be rolled ...
The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has described the achievements chalked by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government, ten months into their tenure given how little the previous administration had left in the nation’s coffers as a “miracle.” Ken Ofori Atta, reading the government’s budget and policy statement today [Wednesday] for 2018, listed a number of programmes ...
The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has announced that government will launch a National Development Bank, with the capacity to mobilize private capital towards agricultural and industrial transformation. According to him, Government has already set-up a task force to develop a road-map for the establishment of the bank. Mr. Ofori-Atta made the announcement during the presentation ...
Government has reiterated its commitment to ensuring that local companies thrive by announcing that young business owners in the country will receive tax holidays. The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta, made this announcement on the floor of Parliament today, Wednesday, November 15, whilst presenting the government’s budget and policy statement for 2018. According to the ...
The Akufo-Addo administration has announced the implementation of a tax threshold to protect workers on minimum wage as part of its major tax reforms in the 2018 budget. This means income tax for minimum wage earners has essentially been abolished. The government has long served notice of its intent to lessen taxation, and the relief being offered ...
The government has announced that privately-owned universities will be granted some tax reliefs thereby enabling them to thrive and admit more students. Making the announcement in the 2018 budget read in Parliament today, [Wednesday], November 15, Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, revealed that the private institutions will no longer be required to pay corporate income tax. According to the ...
Government expects to spend an estimated 62 billion cedis in the 2018 financial year, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has revealed. This is equivalent to 25.7 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and represents an annual growth of 14.5 percent. The Finance Minister made the announcement today, Wednesday, November 15, 2017, in parliament during ...
In fulfillment of its promise to make basic education free and accessible to all, government has announced plans to increase capitation grant from GHC 9.00 to GHC 10.00 in 2018. The previous NPP government, led by former President John Agyekum Kufour, reinforced free basic education through the disbursement of capitation grants, with an initial amount ...
The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has proposed an average reduction of 13 percent in electricity tariffs for residential consumers of electricity. Consumers in the non-residential category will also see a 13 percent drop in tariffs. The high electricity tariffs were a major part of the New Patriotic Party (NPP)’s campaign ahead of the 2016 elections, with many ...
The Akufo-Addo administration has introduced a special initiative targeted at jobless graduates called the Nation Builders Corps (NBC). In the 2018 Budget address, under the theme, “From Stabilization to Work; Putting Ghana to Work Again”, the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, said 100,000 tertiary graduates will be employed under the NBC in 2018. Every one of Ghana’s ...
Over 3,000 young people have been employed under government’s Planting for Food and Jobs programme which was launched in January 2017. The Minister of Finance , Ken Ofori-Atta, who made this known whiles presenting the 2018 Budget and Policy statement in Parliament today , [Wednesday], indicated that a total of 2,160 university graduates and 1,070 ...
The Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has announced that government intends to grow the economy by 6.8 percent in 2018. This represents a 0.5 percent increase, compared to 2017 which was pegged at 6.3 percent. Presenting the 2018 Budget and Financial Statement in parliament today, Monday, November 15, 2017, Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, stated that government ...
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta, is on the floor of Parliament, presenting the government’s 2018 budget to lawmakers. The budget is the second to be read by Akufo-Addo administration since it took over the administration of the country in January 2016. The budget is expected to focus on about 10 key areas including infrastructure, macroeconomic ...
Many people living with diabetes are struggling with related emotional problems – an issue that needs support and recognition, a charity says. Diabetes UK surveyed 8,500 people about diabetes and how it affected their daily life. Three in five said their condition made them feel down. Of those in employment, 16% felt discriminated against at ...
Ahead of today’s [Wednesday] reading of the 2018 budget and economic policy statement by the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta in Parliament, some Ghanaians have been speaking about their expectations, and how they expect it to influence their lives. Some Ghanaians who spoke on Eyewitness News on Tuesday, were hopeful for among other things, a ...
Zimbabwe’s military has read out a statement after taking over the national broadcaster, ZBC, saying it has taken action to “target criminals.” However, it said this was not “a military takeover of government” and President Robert Mugabe was safe. Heavy gunfire and artillery were heard in northern suburbs of the capital, Harare, early on Wednesday. ...
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