Ghanaian Gospel musician Perez Musik has disclosed that the timing of the E-levy introduction is wrong. During an interview on Hitz FM, the ‘Blema Tessa’ hitmaker said that the government can humanly handle the proposed E-levy because times are hard. “I think it (E-Levy) can be handled in a different way, or the government can […]
President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Security, Disaster and Emergency Studies, Dr Ishmael Norman, has blamed the Military takeovers in Africa on bad leadership. He made this remark in an interview with Alfred Ocansey on the Sunrise show on 3FM Wednesday February in relation to the recent coup d’états in some West African countries. […]
One of the industries mostly dominated by men is the construction sector. Figures from the Ghana Statistical Service show that the industry provides employment for approximately 420,000 people of which only 3% are women. Even though some women are thriving to change the narrative, they’re highly under-represented in the construction sector. However, the industry is […]
Trading on the African Inter Continental Free trade Area (AfCFTA) is expected to start soon. This is because the process of negotiations and protocols are about 88 percent completed to allow for trading. Fifty four out of the fifty five African countries have ratified to trade among themselves. Briefing Journalists at a training workshop organized […]
Tonga will go into lockdown after several cases of Covid were recorded in the capital city Nuku’alofa. Prime Minister Siaosi Sovaleni said on Tuesday two port workers had tested positive. Officials later confirmed three more cases in family members. The South Pacific nation had previously managed to stay virus-free. The outbreak comes as Tongans try […]
Customers of the failed banks who are yet to be paid their full deposits would receive their monies, Director of Communications of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Yaw Buaben Asamoa, has assured. He gave the assurance on TV3’s New Day show with Johnnie Hughes on Wednesday February 2. “I believe, and I am certain that […]
The Communications Director of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Yaw Buaben Asamoa, has dissented on the views expressed by former NPP Member of Parliament for New Juabeng South, Dr Mark Assibey-Yeboah to the effect that the government should abandon the E-levy proposal and go to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for support because the […]
Director of Communications for the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Yaw Buaben Asamua has asked Ghanaians not to clamour for Military takeover of the governance of this country. He said Ghana’s democracy has made progress over the years despite some of the challenges that persist. To that end, he said, Ghana must be an example […]
A former Deputy Minister of Information, Felix Kwakye Ofosu has said the move to injunct the Assin North Member of Parliament is intended to get the E-Levy passed. He said this move will suffer spectacular failure. The New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Tuesday February 1 went to the Supreme Court of Ghana to compel the National […]
A crack team of government officials led by the Minister of Finance, Kenneth Nana Yaw Ofori-Atta, will be in Sekondi-Takoradi later today, February 2, for the second regional townhall meeting on the Electronic Transfer Levy, popularly known as the e-levy. This episode comes barely a week after a similar meeting was held in Koforidua, precisely […]
Former Presidential Spokesperson Samuel Koku Anyidoho is least enthused about resurgent efforts by some elements within the National Democratic Congress (NDC), particularly former President John Dramani Mahama to eulogise the late former President Professor John Evans Atta Mills. On Tuesday, February 1, Mr Mahama joined several high-profile dignitaries to launch the John Evans Atta Mills […]
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has accused the US of trying to draw his country into a war in Ukraine. He said America’s goal was to use a confrontation as a pretext to impose more sanctions on Russia. Mr Putin also said the US was ignoring Russia’s concerns about Nato alliance forces in Europe. The US […]
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