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The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has announced that it will publish a list of Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) and their managers who have defaulted in the payment of taxes if “satisfactory arrangements are not made to settle outstanding tax liabilities by Friday, 3 December 2021.” According to the GRA, it will also continue enforcement actions including garnisheeing of accounts, sealing ...

Headmaster of Keta Senior High Technical School (Ketasco) and the contestants are confident they will beat Prempeh College and Presec to win the 2021 National Science and Maths Quiz contest. “We came here purposely for the trophy and we are not leaving here without the trophy,” a contestant said. Ketasco qualified to the finals of the NSMQ for the first time in the ...

Policy Think Tank, Danquah Institute (DI), has waded in on the debate on the Electronic Transaction Levy (E-levy) saying the move will rack in revenue to propel development. During a Press Conference in Accra on Wednesday, 24th November 2021, the Institute stated that if the government has projected to raise GHC6.9 billion in 2022 from the E-levy when rolled out, ...

The Prime Minister of Denmark, Ms Mette Frederiksen, on Wednesday, 24th November 2021, paid a courtesy call on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo at Jubilee House to commence her two-day official visit to Ghana. Her visit to Ghana forms part of the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Denmark and Ghana. The Danish Prime Minister and Nana ...

A Professor at the University of Ghana, Ransford Gyampo has noted that ignorant and clueless party foot-solders benefit from the government’s entrepreneurship programmes more than the other skilled, qualified Ghanaian youths. This, he said, must be nipped in the bud as part of efforts to create the right enabling environment for young entrepreneurs to survive. He was reacting to comments ...

Ckrowd secured new investments from EEFP and angel investor group to create more revenues for Africa’s creative market and foster new jobs opportunities for the youth.     24 November, London, UK:  Ckrowd, Africa’s most preferred and premium content streaming platform, has secured a $60,000 of pre-seed funding and $100,000 export grant investment, respectively from an international angel investor group, as well as backing from ...

Railways Development Minister John Peter Amewu has said it will not be possible to build any sky trains in Ghana in the near future contrary to earlier promises by the Akufo-Addo government to that effect. In November 2018, the first Akufo-Addo government signed an agreement with a South African group, Africa Investment (Ai) SkyTrain Consortium, for the construction of the ...

The Commissioner of the Right To Information Commission, Dr Edith Dankwa, has emphasised that not all information requested by the public can be put out in its domain. She said the Right To Information Act 2019, Act 989, lists information that have been classified as “exempt”. “You will agree with me that it is not every information you can put out there,” she ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) says it is ready to adopt the Ghana card as the only document to prove one’s citizenship in the next voter registration exercise. Dr Serebour Quaicoe, Director, Electoral Services at the EC, told the Ghana News Agency in an interview that the Commission had already reached a consensus with the political parties and was waiting for ...

A US Federal court in Chicago, Illinois, has thrown out a case brought before it against the Chairman of GN Bank, Paa Kwesi Nduom, GN Bank and others. This was disclosed by the owner of the defunct Bank, Dr Nduom on Tuesday, 23 November 2021. US-based equity fund and securities Investment Company, Birim Group LLC, dragged Dr Nduom and some ...