Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has revealed government’s intentions of reviewing the country’s existing tax systems to introduce more private sector-led solutions in the revenue mobilisation efforts ahead of the 2020 budget presentation next week. Mr. Ofori-Atta’s comment follows the inability of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to meets its domestic revenue mobilisation targets in the […]
Singapore’s Senior Minister, Tharman Shanmugaratnam has made a strong case for the promotion of technical and vocational education especially in developing countries like Ghana. He believes that making heavy investments in technical and vocational education will help train more young people with skills relevant to the job market. Mr. Shanmugaratnam made the comment in a Citi […]
The Head of Local Government Service, Nana Ato Arthur has debunked claims that electing Metropolitan Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) will divide the country. He said such a move will rather strengthen local governance and hasten development in the country. Nana Ato Arthur who was speaking in a Citi News interview called for concerted efforts and […]
Broadcasting giant, the Class Media Group (CMG), is aiming at making a positive impact in the livelihoods of underprivileged seamstresses, tailors and hairdressers in Accra, through a benevolent gesture that seeks to empower artisans with free tools and guidance to unearth their talents and also grow their businesses. Dubbed: ‘Founder’s Empowerment Project,’ the measure is […]
ACP Dr Benjamin Agordzo after court proceedings on Wednesday morning sent a direct message to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo over his trial for treason over a WhatsApp platform chat. Mr Agordzo told journalists that President Akufo-Addo asked Ghanaians to be citizens and that is what he did by expressing his opinion. The top police […]
Six basic school head teachers in the East Gonja municipality of the Savannah Region have had their October salaries blocked for vacating their duty post to serve as senior registration officers for the just ended Ghana Card registration exercise in the area. Twenty-nine other teachers from various schools in the district who also left their […]
Police in the Northern Region have picked up a 39-year-old woman who allegedly kidnapped a five-year-old girl in October 2019. She was picked up in Salaga in the Savannah Region early Tuesday morning after a month of investigations into the reported missing of a five-year-old girl, Fadila Mohammed, at Lamashegu, a suburb of Tamale. The […]
Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Dr. Benjamin Agordzor has spoken to his beloved wife from detention saying despite the ill and unjust treatment he is suffering in the hands of state security, he has not lost faith that God is still in control. He spoke briefly to his wife after she waited for more than […]
Tuesday, October 25, 2013, has been etched in the history books of Egypt as one of the nation’s dark days in football. It was the day that Ghana’s Black Stars soared high above the Pharaohs and inflicted on them, their heaviest defeat in a World Cup qualifier. A rampant Black Stars side eased past Egypt […]
Government has initiated the process towards the establishment of a National Sanitation Authority as well as a National Sanitation Fund to address the country’s sanitation and water challenges. Announcing this on Tuesday, 5th November, 2019 at Ho in the Volta Region, the Vice President of the Republic, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, said government is convinced that […]
Ghana’s Auditor-General, Mr Daniel Yaw Domelevo, has surcharged Senior Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo over a $1-million payment his office supervised in making to private firm Kroll and Associates, allegedly for no work done. Mr Domelevo told Accra-based Joy FM that Mr Osafo-Maafo has 60 days to challenge the surcharge in court. A few weeks ago, Mr […]
The Ashanti regional police command has commenced investigations into an armed robbery attack on the Member of Parliament for Nhyiaeso. The lawmaker, Kennedy Kankam, and his family, according to the police, were allegedly attacked at their residence by three armed men on Sunday, 3 November 2019. The MP, the police noted, said the suspects told […]
