Monthly Archives: August, 2021

The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has observed that the recent foreign trips of President Nana Akuffo Addo has resulted in the country spending Ghc3.46 million on a private jet from Ghana to England and...

The Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) is not happy Ghana is earning only 17% from oil deals and thus called on government to renegotiate all agreements involving Ghana’s oil sector. The organization has also suggested to government to go beyond...

Center for Democratic Development (CDD) said its post-election survey has shown that Ghanaians do not believe President Akufo Addo is ready to fight corruption. Overwhelming 62% of the respondents sampled by the report have cast doubt in the ability of...

Caterers who are cooking for the Ghanaian basic schools under the School Feeding Programme have called on government to increase the grant per child from GH₵1.00 to GH₵3.00. The caterers have cited recent hike in prices of ingredients used in...

Several homes and schools have flooded in some parts of the Tamale Metropolis following heavy downpour in the Northern Region. Heavily affected areas are in the Tamale Metropolis and Sangnarigu. Communities such as Gumani, Nyanshegu, Fuo, Taha and Kanvili-Tuunaayili among others,...

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has started the implementation of a pilot cocoa farmers’ pension scheme in New Edubiase in the Ashanti Region. The pilot, which is expected to last for two weeks, is to enable the implementers and fund...

The Ghana Education Service has warned that it will severely deal with district directors who are submitting non-teachers’s names and Identity cards in a bid to secure extra laptops from the free Teacher Laptop project. A statement by the GES...

The Youth Employment Agency (YEA) says notwithstanding the setback caused by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, its Job Centre has helped over one thousand youth gain employment. The Job Centre was launched in October 2019, as part of efforts...

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) says it will reject any expenditure incurred by any company in Ghana without a Value Added Tax (VAT) invoice starting from October. This, according to the Authority, forms part of moves to, among other things,...

The Ghana Rice Millers Association of Ghana says the 50% reduction in benchmark values did not benefit the consuming public and is therefore calling for it to be scrapped. According to the group, the rebate government introduced only enriched importers...