The Chief Executive Officer of the MacDan Group of Companies, Mr Daniel McKorley, has expressed hope that the Songhor salt project at Ada in the Greater Accra Region, will earn Ghana more Dollars after export to help shore up the local currency. He made this comment while speaking in an interview with TV3’s Paa Kwesi Asare on the Business Focus programme ...
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betPawa sets up Responsible Gaming Call Center for Gaming Commission
Leading online betting and gaming company betPawa have provided IT equipment to the Gaming Commission of Ghana for the creation of a Responsible Gaming Call Center at the Commission. The action forms part of the company’s responsible gaming agenda. They want to help educate people on the need to see betting as a form of entertainment and only bet what ...
Read More »Cocobod trial: Agongo, Agricult didn’t cause financial loss; bring back Lithovit fertiliser – Farmer
Businessman Seidu Agongo and his company, Agricult, did not cause any financial loss to the state by supplying the Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) with Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser, a cocoa farmer who benefitted from the agrochemical, has told Justice Clemence Honyenuga’s court. According to Mr Thomas Amo Amankwaa, the fertiliser was a “great saviour” to cocoa farmers and must be brought ...
Read More »GUTA to demonstrate over high cost of doing business; asks for review of exemptions for expatriates
The Ghana Union Traders Association (GUTA) has stressed on their calls for the government to discontinue the tax exemptions given to expatriate businesses and entities in Ghana. Spokesperson for GUTA, Joseph Paddy alleged that aside from being detrimental to indigenous businesses, the privilege of tax exemption for expatriates is seriously abused at the expense of the state’s revenue. “For example ...
Read More »Bawumia reveals gov’t plans to prosecute over 140k workers with multiple IDs at Controller & Accountant General
Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia says a process to match biometric details of workers in the national identity system at the National Identification Authority (NIA) and same details at the Controller and Accountant General’s Department (CAGD) has detected over 148,000 workers with multiple identities. “It may just mean that, maybe, they have not just registered for the Ghana Card. That ...
Read More »BoG to hold emergency economic review meeting Wednesday
The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) is expected to hold an emergency meeting on Wednesday to review recent development in the economy, an official statement has said. The meeting is coming on the back of the recent hike in inflation from 29.8% to 31.7%. Some analysts had earlier called on the Central Bank told an emergency ...
Read More »SIM re-registration: ¢5 charge is not the decision of the telcos – Ashigbey
The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications, Mr Ken Ashigbey has said the ¢5 charge on the new application to be made available for download within the week to enable many to self-register in the SIM re-registration exercise, is not determined by the telecom companies. He said it is the work of the regulator, the National Communications ...
Read More »Ho: MTN to address network problem in rural Ghana with $1b investment
Telecommunication giants MTN Ghana Limited has announced a $1billion investment plan to address network challenges across the country especially in rural communities. According to the Chief Executive Officer of MTN Mobile Money -a subsidiary of the company, Mr. Eli Hini, the plan is part of activities aimed at improving and maintaining network leadership by 2025 in line with Ghana’s digital ...
Read More »Budget review: Admit e-levy, other policies that were resisted are underperforming, having negative effect – Bright Simons
Vice President of Imani Africa, Mr Bright Simons has said, ahead of the mid year budget review by the Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta today Monday, July 25, the Minister must admit failings with some of the policies that were resisted in Parliament especially the e-levy. Speaking in an interview with TV3 ahead of the budget review, on Thursday July ...
Read More »‘Only 1% of private sector workers contribute to SSNIT’
The Director-General of Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), Dr. John Ofori-Tenkorang has revealed that only one per cent of private sector workers contribute to SSNIT in Ghana. According to him, 11.5 million workers are in Ghana but only 1.7million are active SSNIT contributors. He said 63% of workers are in the private sector while 36% are Public sector ...
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