About six thousand students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have been forced by the University to defer their courses. This was after KNUST issued a release notifying students who owe more than 70 per cent of school fees by April 7 would be deferred automatically. But the warning did not […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday commiserated with Bishop Dag Heward-Mills, the Founder and General Overseer of the Lighthouse Church International on the death of his son. Dr. David Heward-Mills, a Research Physician at Shriners Hospitals for Children in Galveston died in the United States at the age 31 after a short illness. Visiting the […]
The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, has urged taxpayers to file their tax returns for 2021 with the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) by the end of April 2022 to ensure compliance with the tax laws and promote revenue mobilisation. His call, he explained, was in line with the Income Tax Act 2015 (Act 896) and […]
The Supreme Court has, in a majority 5-2 decision, ruled that Assin North MP, James Gyakye Quayson, can no longer perform Parliamentary duties. This is until the determination of the substantive case filed against him at the Supreme Court. A Cape Coast High Court in July, 2021 nullified the election of Mr Quayson after it […]
The Ghana Police Service has arrested a Lebanese, Osman Brustani for threatening a shop owner’s life over parking space at Osu. The Police announced this in a Facebook post on Wednesday. According to the post, the suspect is currently in Police custody and will be taken through the due process of the law. The Lebanese […]
The Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation has kick-started an initiative to train 5000 girls from five regions in Information Communication and Technology (ICT). The regions are Bono, Bono East, Ahafo, Savannah and Northern Region. The first batch of 1000 girls from various districts in the Bono East Region have already started the training in basic […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is offering to buy Twitter, saying the social media platform he has criticized for not living up to free speech principles needs to be transformed as a private company. Twitter Inc. said in a regulatory filing on Thursday that Musk, currently the company’s biggest shareholder, has proposed buying the remaining shares […]
The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) has reacted to the Chief Justices’ circular to trial judges on observing the age-old traditions of the bar in calling cases of senior lawyers first before that of junior ones. To the GBA, the rationale for that tradition is to present junior lawyers the unique and special opportunity, particularly those relatively […]
The food giant that owns the Cadbury brand is embroiled in fresh allegations of employing child labour after an investigation obtained footage of children working with machetes on cocoa farms in its supply chain, the Guardian has reported. According to the UK website, Children as young as 10 have allegedly been found working in Ghana to harvest […]
The National Insurance Commission (NIC) in collaboration with the Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the Nkawkaw Divisional Police have impounded 103 vehicles without insurance. This was during a three-day exercise from Tuesday to Thursday as part of their usual quarterly exercise to clamp down on vehicles without insurance. The Police team was led […]
The persistent rise in the prices of petroleum products at the pumps in the last couple of months will now be a thing of the past, the Chief Executive Officer of the Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors (CBOD), Senyo Hosi, has assured. This follows the major intervention by the Bank of Ghana (BoG). The central […]
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has highlighted the entities responsible for deducting the yet-to-be-implemented Electronic Transfer Levy (E-Levy). According to the Authority, as of May 1, fast approaches, and the entities designated to make such deductions are prepping themselves to ensure that the new tax policy is implemented smoothly. A Head of Compliance, Domestic Tax […]
