Proposed changes to EU law would force companies that transfer Bitcoin or other crypto-assets to collect details on the recipient and sender. The proposals would make crypto-assets more traceable, the EU Commission said, and would help stop money-laundering and the financing of terrorism. The new rules would also prohibit providing anonymous crypto-asset wallets. The proposals […] The post EU
The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, is expected to brief Parliament on the cost of President Akufo-Addo’s recent trips to Europe and South Africa later today, Wednesday, July 21, 2021. This comes after the North Tongu MP, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, filed two urgent questions on the use of a private jet for the trips. “I hope […] The post Finance
The authorities in north-west Nigeria say they have freed 100 women and children – mainly mothers nursing infants – who were seized by bandits. The group were abducted on 8 June in Zamfara state. Four people were also killed during the incident. The Zamfara state government said they were released without any ransom being paid, […] The post Nigeria secures
The South African authorities are still assessing the true economic cost of the looting and violence that broke out after the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma. The estimated cost to the economy in KwaZulu-Natal province alone has been put at well over $1bn (£730m). A minister in the president’s office said the unrest and looting had […] The post South
Cargill Ghana Limited, a leading cocoa beans processing company, as part of its corporate social responsibility initiatives, has broken the ground for the construction of a six-unit classroom block at Sraha near Adjei-Kojo in the Tema West Municipality of the Greater Accra Region. The classroom block project, when completed will serve as the second public […] The post Cargill
The Ashanti Regional Police Command has denied claims that its personnel deployed to calm protesting Kumasi Girls’ Senior High School students physically abused some of the students. This in spite of the fact that some of the affected students have shared their experiences with bruises on their bodies. In a statement, the police said the […] The post Police
The Ghana Health Service has recommended the introduction of Rapid Diagnostic test kits at all entry points of the country, as part of efforts to control the spread of COVID-19. Addressing the media after a two-day crisis meeting in the Ashanti Region, the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, said the test […] The post GHS suggests
The African Center for Health Policy Research and Analysis, believes the Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, must no longer be at post after he side-stepped due process in the botched procurement of Sputnik V vaccines. “I think he should honourably resign, or the President should sack him,” Executive Director of the Center, Dr. Thomas Anaba, said […] The post Agyeman-Manu
President Nana Akufo-Addo says government will be announcing projects and programmes in the upcoming mid-year budget to help in creating some one million jobs. The Minister of Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta Atta, is expected to present the mid-year budget review for the 2021 Financial Year in Parliament on Thursday, July 29, 2021. The jobs, according […] The post Interventions
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