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Video: Killer taxes may send Ghana back to IMF – Minority reacts to Mid- year Budget Review

The Minority in Parliament says Ghana is likely to return to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a bailout just a year after it...

2019 WASSCE results: Check out candidates who failed English Language

The West African Examinations Council has released the provisional results of candidates who wrote the West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) in 2019. The...

Govt to pilot centralised application and processing service for tertiary institutions in Nov.

The Government of Ghana, through the Ministry of Education, is set to pilot Centralised Application and Processing Service (CAPS) for tertiary institutions in the...

Gyakiti residents appeal to govt for potable water [Photos]

Residents of Gyakiti in the Asuogyaman District of the Eastern region have appealed to government for an immediate intervention to deal with the absence...

Ignore Badu Kobi’s comments, remain focused – Gender Minister urges woman

Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Cynthia Morrison has urged Ghanaian women to ignore Prophet Emmanuel Badu Kobi’s provocative comment against Ashanti, Fante...

Audio: Okyenhene rejects govt’s community mining initiative

The Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin, has vehemently rejected government's community mining initiative instituted by the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Mining as alternative to illegal...

Photos+Audio: Car knocks down man to death at Gomoa Mpota Junction

A 30-year-old man, identified as Neenyi, has been knocked down to death by an unidentified car at Gomoa Mpota Junction in the Gomoa East...

We will match to your church if…– Group to Badu Kobi

A group, calling itself the Women of Faith and Substance, has threatened to match to Prophet Badu Kobi’s church if he fails to apologise...

Audio: Telecoms Chamber reacts to 3% increase in ‘Talk Tax’

The Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications is shocked at the increment of the Communications Service Tax from 6% to 9%. The increment, according to the Chief...

Audio: ‘Talk Tax’ increment needless – Coalition for Social Justice

The Coalition for Social Justice (CSJ), a political pressure group, has described as needless government's decision to increase the Communication Service Tax, popularly known...

WAEC releases 2019 results; withholds those of over 48,000 candidates

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released the 2019 West African Senior School Certificate Examination results with those of 48,855 candidates withheld by...

Budget review: Over GH₵5bn to be spent on energy sector – Minister reveals

It has emerged that over GH₵5 billion of the GH₵6.3 billion Supplementary Budget needed for the remaining months of the 2019 fiscal year will...

Audio: Luxury car owners, dealers shower praises on Akufo-Addo over Luxury Vehicle Tax

Vehicle and Assets Dealers Association of Ghana has welcomed the decision by the Akufo-Addo government to withdraw the Luxury Vehicle Tax which was introduced...

Canadian girls kidnappers: Four granted GHC 800,000 bail

The Accra High Court has granted bail to four of the eight accused persons standing trial for the kidnap of two Canadians in Kumasi. Each...

Acting IGP cracks whip; interdicts police commander for unlawful detention

The Acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP), James Oppong-Boanuh, has interdicted the District Commander for Lakeside, DSP Eric Partey Opata, for unlawful detention of a...

Ghana Cocoa Board to raise $1.3 billion in syndicated loans

Ghana Cocoa Board will raise $1.3 billion in syndicated loans for its operations in the 2019/2020 season, the Minister of Finance Mr Ken Ofori-Atta announced in...

GNAT raises red flag over SHS 2 vacation classes

The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) says the decision by the Ghana Education Service (GES) to sideline teacher unions on discussions regarding the...

Driver, Houseboy remanded over robbery

An Accra Circuit Court on Monday granted a GH¢ 20,000.00 bail with a surety each to two persons, including a teenager who is a...

Govt took tough decisions to right wrongs of Mahama’s era – Finance Minister

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has said that the Akufo-Addo government has had to take some difficult decisions to correct the wrongs of the...

We shall fix our roads not with pictures and videos – Ofori-Atta jabs

The politics about infrastructural development will be taken a notch higher as the Akufo-Addo government intends to fix a lot of roads across the...

Govt eats humble pie over killer Luxury Vehicle Levy

Government has scrapped the Luxury Vehicle Levy (Act 969) which was introduced by Parliament and assented to in July, 2018. The decision, according to the...

Obedient Akufo-Addo will fix our roads; alleviate poverty – Ofori-Atta

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta says the Akufo-Addo-led government is committed and will gradually fix all deplorable roads in Ghana. “Fellow Ghanaians, I wish to plead...

Govt to resume work on major cocoa roads – Ken Ofori-Atta

The government has resumed work on cocoa roads, Ken Ofori-Atta, the Finance Minister has announced. The resumption includes upgrading, routine and periodic maintenance activities of...

Audio: Ofori-Atta digging his own grave – Adongo

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolgatanga Central, Isaac Adongo has expressed disappointment in the Mid-year Budget Review presented by Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta. He...

Population census to be conducted in 2020

Ken Ofori-Atta, the Finance Minister has revealed that a new population census would be conducted in 2020 to among others update the country’s statistical...

Week 6: Adom TV’s Wo Nsa Ano Adwuma: Dorcas Tane evicted (Video)

After weeks of outstanding and creative performances from a contestant in the ongoing Adom TV sewing reality show, Wo Nsa Ano Adwuma, Dorcas Tane...

Infographics: All you need to know about 2019 Mid-year Budget Review

Finance Minister, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta on Monday, July 29, 2019 presented the 2019 Mid-year Budget Review in Parliament. The infographics below details the government's efforts...

Free SHS has changed Ghana’s future – Finance Minister

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta says government's flagship programme, free Senior High School (SHS) has changed the future of the country. Presenting the 2019 Mid-year Budget...

Video/Photos: Kenyan pastor invites ‘Jesus’ to preach in his church

Though most people on social media believe the crusade took place in South Africa, ‘Jesus’ seems to have been in Kenya. Pictures and videos of...

Communication Service Tax up to 9%

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta is proposing a three percent increase in Communication Service Tax, thus from six percent to nine percent. This, he explained, is...

Possible Communications Service Tax increase; Minister reacts

Minister for Communications, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful is in support of any measure which will increase government revenue. Citing her Ministry as an example, she said...

NDC primary: Paralysed aspirant breaks silence on condition

Kafui Augusta Takyi, a National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary hopeful for the Afajato South constituency has reacted to media reports that she became paralysed...

Audio: Prophet Badu Kobi incurs wrath of women group

Leader and Founder of Glorious Wave Church International, Prophet Emmanuel Badu Kobi, has incurred the wrath of Ghanaians and social media users for branding...

Ato Forson’s prediction ahead of Mid-year Budget Review

Former Deputy Finance Minister, Cassiel Ato Forson is predicting tax increases ahead of the Mid-year budget review. His prediction, according to him, is based...

2019 Mid-year Review: ‘Petrol, mobile tax to go up’

Pro-government newspaper, The Daily Statesman, has hinted that the Finance Minister will announce an increase in petroleum and mobile tax today. Ken Ofori-Atta, will address...

Stop enhancing your genitals – Marriage counsellor

A marriage counsellor and relationship expert, Dr John Boakye, has cautioned married couples against enhancing their genitals for sexual pleasures, saying the fuss about...

Gov’t promises to publish Tertiary Education Policy Document soon

The Tertiary Education Policy Document, which is a landmark development, will soon be made available to the public, Professor Kwesi Yankah, Minister of State...

Volta: NDC Parliamentary aspirant becomes paralyzed after filing nomination

There was shock at the Volta Regional office of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) last week when an aspirant seeking to contest in the...

Terkper shares thoughts on 2019 Mid-year Budget Review

DON’T RUSH TO PRAISE ALL OF AFRICA’S “POPULAR” BUT FISCALLY UNSUSTAINABLE PROGRAMS Introduction - Context is 2019 Mid-Year Review and the need to be realistic...

Asantehene receives committee’s report on KNUST students’ disturbances

The three-member committee tasked to investigate students' disturbances that led to the closure temporarily of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)...