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The Ghana Revenue Authority, GRA, will begin prosecution of tax offenders this year as part of the broader strategy to engender tax compliance and maximize revenue collection. GRA launched its prosecution Policy in 2019. The Authority went ahead to table request before the Chief Justice to set up a dedicated court to expeditiously prosecute tax offenders. Speaking at the opening ...

The Ghana Consulate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has expressed concern about a sudden increase in the number of Ghanaians attempting to smuggle marijuana (weed) into Dubai, which has led to the arrest of five people in the last three months. According to the Consulate, five Ghanaians were arrested at the Dubai International Airport for drug trafficking between January 2021 ...

State prosecutors have brought fresh charges against a former Director-General of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), Mr Ernest Thompson and four others for causing financial loss to the state. This latest charge follows a Supreme Court ruling that the particulars the state had provided to support the charge of causing financial loss to the state against the ...

Central Regional Minister Marygold Assan has indicated that a contractor has been assigned to work on the construction of an ultra-modern market complex in Mankessim. The regional minister made this known when she paid a working visit to the area together with the Member of Parliament for the Mfantseman constituency, Ophelia Hayford, to commiserate with the victims of two recent ...

Over 7,000 children in the Jaman South municipality in the Bono Region have received the first dose of the RTS malaria vaccine currently being rolled out in 42 districts across the country. As of February this year, 7,329 children under two years in the area had received their first doses of the vaccine. The municipality started the Malaria Vaccination Implementation ...

ighteen (18) suspected illegal immigrants from Nigeria have been arrested in the Eastern Region of Ghana by the Operation motherland team made up of the Military and Immigration Personnel on Wednesday, April 21, 2021. The suspects made up of both male and female were on board a VW Crafter bus with registration number GR 5314-21 and were from Aflao to ...

The Interim President of the Creative Arts Agency, Mr Mark Okraku Mantey has been nominated the Deputy Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Mr OkrakuMantey’s nomination was contained in a release signed by the Acting Director of Communications at the Office of the President, Mr Eugene Arhin. However, like the other 38 persons who ...

The Minister of Energy, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has called for the need to generate more, not less, power as the country’s power needs grow in consonance with its growing population and urbanization. The Minister made this observation when he opened a four-day Energy Sector Work Programme Retreat for 2021 at Ada in the Greater Accra Region. Dr. Prempeh, who ...

Ghana’s consulate in Dubai has advised persons traveling to the United Arab Emirates to be vigilant when accepting parcels to be delivered to others following the arrest of five persons for attempting to traffic Marijuana. In a statement, Ghana’s consulate in Dubai said in some cases, most persons had no clue the drugs were in the packages given to them. ...

It was all joy for the Western Regional Police Command when they received the latest five (5) brand new motorbikes from the Member of Parliament for Effia and Minister for Public Enterprises Joseph Cudjoe valued at over thirty-thousand Ghana Cedis to help the police fight crime. The Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis was caught unawares on April 10th and 11th after individuals believed ...