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Pressure group, OccupyGhana has outlined three conditions that government should strictly adhere to should it successfully introduce the Electronic Transaction Levy (E-levy). According to the Group, the government must be transparent in its disbursement of the country’s funds. OccupyGhana also demanded that an “accountability regime that requires government, at least, to publish the revenue from the E-Levy and details of ...

A leading member of the #FixTheCountry Movement, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, has been charged with treason felony. This is an offence provided for in section 182(b) of Ghana’s Criminal offences Act. This provides; “Section 182—Treason Felony. A person is guilty of treason-felony and shall be punishable as for first-degree felony who — b) prepares or endeavours to carry out by unlawful means ...

President Akufo-Addo has left Ghana for Ethiopia to participate in the 35th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union.  He left the country on Friday, February 4, 2022, for the summit taking place from 5th to 6th February. The meeting of the Heads of State will be held on the theme, “Building resilience in nutrition on the African continent: ...

Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has told his colleague Heads of State to work hard to deal with the menace of the coup d’états in the sub-region. Mr Akufo-Addo said the resurgence of coup d’états in the region is a matter of grave concern because it challenges the democratic way of lives chosen. “Your ...

The National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) in the Prestea Huni-Valley area, has started registering displaced residents of the Bogoso-Apiate explosion in the Western Region. This is to make way for the relocation of the affected persons to a new site. The residents were rendered homeless after the explosion ransacked the whole area, leaving 14 dead and about 60 persons injured. ...

The Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto says the recent outbreak of transborder animal diseases, including Bird Flu, has negatively impacted the progress of the government’s flagship Rearing for Food and Jobs programmes. He said the outbreaks “threaten government’s agenda of attaining self-sufficiency in meat production by 2025 as envisioned under the rearing for food and jobs programme.” Available ...

For the United Nations’ Secretary General, Brigadier General Constance Emefa Edjeani-Afenu, who passed away this week in her home country, Ghana, was “a true pioneer.”  In a heartfelt statement released on Tuesday night, António Guterres said Brigadier Edjeani-Afenu “made history in peacekeeping as the first female Deputy Force Commander in the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).” Through a ...

The Ministry of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs has directed that trainees under the Nation Builders Corps (NABCo) be allowed to leave post. This follows the completion of the programme back in October 2021. NABCO was introduced by the Akufo-Addo led administration in 2017 as part of measures to address graduate unemployment in the country. In November 2021, the NABCO secretariat ...

Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng, has commenced investigations into alleged corruption and corruption-related offences perpetrated by officials of Bank of Ghana, banks, specialised deposit-taking institutions and financial holding companies. These institutions have been accused of corrupt-related offences during the banking and financial sector crisis. In a press statement dated January 25, Mr Agyebeng noted that: “The Office of the Special Prosecutor ...

The Center for Social Impact Studies (CeSIS) says it is saddened by the loss of precious lives and property as a result of the explosion that tragically occurred at Appiatse, near Bogoso in the Prestea Huni-Valley Municipality of the Western Region last Thursday. So far a number of people are reportedly dead with many more injured and receiving treatment at ...