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Isaac Adongo writes: UNIPASS/ICUMS is a messed manual system; stop the huge revenue theft

The Government of Ghana led by H.E Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo Addo has deliberately deployed a weak so-called Integrated Customs Management System (ICUM) through Unipass...

NLA and GRA set to launch VAT Raffle

The National Lottery Authority (NLA) and Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), the two strategic Revenue Mobilisation Institutions for Ghana's Government, will officially launch VAT Raffle...

Customs Officials at Elubo deny challenges with ICUMS

Customs officials at the Elubo land border – one out Ghana’s six land borders - have denied claims of challenges faced by...

How to become a billionaire – 7 characteristics of the rich & wealthy

In 1916, John D. Rockefeller, the father of the petroleum industry, became the world’s first billionaire. Nearly a century later in 2015, there were...

Quickly fix chaotic, snail-paced UNIPASS – Pharmaceutical Industry to gov’t

The Chamber of Pharmacy, Ghana and the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association of Ghana, have expressed qualms about the difficulties associated with import clearance at Ghana's...

ICUMS deployment: The new normal?

Dear Media practitioners, We have met here today to address some pertinent issues that have been raised and which have affected the roll out...

ICUMS records 1,452 transactions at land borders

Integrated Customs Management Systems (ICUMS) has registered 1,452 transactions at the land frontiers since it was deployed. Out of this, 408 were direct imports into...

Hollard insurance launches first virtual chatbot to boost accessibility

Hollard Insurance has launched the first virtual insurance chatbot in Ghana to make insurance more accessible to Ghanaians via popular messaging channels such as...

BoG shoddily inscribes amount on GH¢ 2 coin?

The Central Bank in November 2019 introduced the GH¢100 and GH¢200 notes as well as a GH¢2 coin as part of the country’s denominations. The...

CLOSSAG threatens strike action

The Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOSSAG) has hinted of plans to embark on industrial action in the next 14 days. The...

Govt to train 26,000 entrepreneurs – GH¢50m earmarked for programme

The government has started the process to train 26,000 young entrepreneurs across the country under the third phase of the Presidential Business Support Programme...

Sinapi Aba Savings and Loans makes donation to clients

Sinapi Aba Savings and Loans (SASL) Ghana, has provided for its clients some 5,000 face masks and 5,000 hand sanitizers to help combat the...

Details of why and how Venture Capital CEO agreed to refund GH¢15m

Details are emerging about how the Attorney General’s (AG’s) Department was able to conclude a settlement of a whopping GH¢15 million to be paid...

MTN reacts to NCA’s ‘monopoly breaking policies’

Telecommunications giant, Mobile Telephone Network (MTN), has responded to media reports on the National Communications Authority's (NCA) decision to implement some specific policies to...

Hollard Ghana distributes PPEs to Kamina Barracks Hospital, NEDCo, others

Insurance group, Hollard Ghana, in support of the fight against the spread of COVID-19 hasdonated hundreds of Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) to several institutions...

NCA to break MTN’s ‘near monopoly’ in telecom industry

The National Communications Authority (NCA), per a directive of the Communications Ministry, will in the coming days put in place certain policies aimed at...

ICUMS rakes in over GH₵177m at Tema Port in one week

The new Integrated Customs Management System (ICUMS) is said to have raked in ‎GH₵177.3 million in revenue at the Tema Port one week of...

GRA replies IMANI Africa

Management of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has responded to some assertions made by IMANI Africa against the newly deployed Integrated Customs Management System...

ICUMS make strides at Tema port, process over 4,000 BoEs

New managers of Ghana’s ports, Ghana Link Network Services Limited (Ghana Link), has denied claims by freight forwarders over the new Integrated Customs Management...

Checkout list of top 15 richest black people in the world

In the list compiled by the Africa Facts Zone, Nigeria's Aliko Dangote leads the pack with $9.5bn, while Mike Adenuga makes number three on...

NDC officials face prosecution over Saglemi housing project

Some former government officials of the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) are to be arraigned before court in the coming days for allegedly misappropriating...

Komenda Sugar Factory to be revived once borders reopen – Trade Minister

The Trade and Industry Minister, Alan Kyerematen says the Komenda Sugar Factory will be revived once the country’s borders reopen. The country’s borders have been...

Augson Global warns public of fake Facebook accounts and impersonation

A multi-sector investment conglomerate based in Ghana, Augson Global Limited has advised the general public to be wary of persons cloning the company on...

Former NIB boss’ son Stephen Gyimah courts contempt trouble for himself

Son of former Managing Director of the National Investment Bank (NIB), Stephen Gyimah, also known as Nana Yaw Poku, appears to have courted fresh...

Seth Terkper’s view: BoG reversing its stance on budget deficit financing

Introduction During the decade-long Global Financial and other crisis from 2008, BOG did not apply any of its fiscal powers under the Act 612. On...

John Kumah honoured for being Most Outstanding Integrity CEO

The Africa Centre for Integrity and Development (ACID), an Africa-based anti-corruption and Good Governance advocacy Civil Society Organisation, has presented an award to John...

Procedures for clearing cargoes under GCMS outlined by ICUMS

The Integrated Customs Management System (ICUMS) has outlined proposals for the release of cargo for the Bills of Entry processed in Ghana Customs Management...

ParkNWatch is back in grand style

COVID-19 has had a devastating effect on our daily lives, it has robbed us of our economic, political and social lives. Due to the effects...

ICUMS takes control of Ghana’s ports, GCNet and West Blue cease operations

All transactions related to the import and export of goods at the country’s various ports will effective today, Monday, June 1, 2020, be conducted...

ICUMS takes-over at Tema Port today

Effective today, June 1, 2020, all transactions related to the import and export of goods at the various ports will be conducted through the...

More troubles for Menzgold as Payboy terminates contract

Payboy Company Limited, the payment company that was recently appointed by Menzgold Ghana Limited to negotiate a settlement with its unpaid customers says it has terminated...

Why Kennedy Agyapong opened his own media house will shock you

A fight that ensued on a fateful morning of the year 2006 at Despite Media’s Peace FM is what provoked millionaire Kennedy Agyapong to...

COVID-19 and cedi depreciation to push debt stock to 76.8% of GDP – Seth Terkper

Former Finance Minister, Seth Terkper, has revealed that the nation’s debt stock to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) could go as high as 76.8 per...

Menzgold saga: EOCO arrests Payboy officials

Officials of the third party company, Payboy appointed by defunct gold dealership firm, Menzgold to negotiate settlement with its unpaid customers have been arrested. The...

Coronavirus: 57 personnel on Tullow’s CSV Lancelot test positive

Fifty seven workers on Tullow Ghana’s contractor support vessel CSV Lancelot have test positive for Covid-19. In a statement copied to Adomonline.com, the company said,...

Seth Terkper’s point of view: Is deficit financing back?

IS DEFICIT FINANCING BACK: BOG 2020 BUDGET DEFICIT SUPPORT AT 53%? Seth E. Terkper Introduction It seems the Bank of Ghana (BOG) May 2020 Monetary Policy Committee...

Check how much Ghana made from Year of Return

Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Barbara Oteng Gyasi, has said the tourism sector generated up to $3.3 billion for the Ghanaian economy last...

Akwatia youth throw weight behind newly appointed CEO of GCDGL

The Concerned Youth of Akwatia (CoYA) has denied claims by the Akwatia Development Association (AkDA) that its in disagreement with the appointment of Mr...

Why I’m now unpopular at the ports – Deputy Trade Minister explains

Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry, Carlos Ahenkorah, is not surprised about the ‘hostile’ nature of some Freight Forwarders and Clearing Agents towards him. He...

Coronavirus: Fishermen call for mass testing, disinfection of coastal areas

The leadership of the Ghana National Inshore Fisheries Association and Canoe Owners Association is calling on the government to, as a matter of urgency,...