Boarding schools to receive food supplies before commencement of 2019/2020 academic year-NAFCO

Boarding schools in the country are expected to receive a chunk of their food supply before the commencement of the 2019/2020 Academic Year. Chief Executive Officer of National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO), Mr. Hanan Abdul-Wahab who announced this today in Takoradi in the Western Region explained the measure is to ensure an impediment-free semester […]

Use Festivals as launch pads for dev’t-First Lady as she is enstooled as development Queen of Ada

The Chiefs and Elders of the Ada Traditional Council crowned First Lady of the Republic of Ghana, H.E. Mrs Rebecca Naa Okaikor Akufo-Addo as their Development Queen, with the stool title, “Naana Ode Ope Eoo I” when she joined them to celebrate this year’s annual Asafotufiami festival. The honour was bestowed the First Lady in […]

Increasing consumer-based taxes is wrong – IEA

The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) is of the view that the government should have increased taxes on flourishing businesses instead of consumers. According to the IEA’s review of the 2019 Supplementary Budget and Mid-Year Economic Review, flourishing businesses make profits which needed to be taxed, instead of the consumers’ income. The government proposed an […]

Ghana’s fiscal path unsustainable – IFS

Ghana’s indebtedness is set to worsen on the back of government’s current spending and borrowing decisions, making the country’s fiscal policy path unsustainable, policy think-tank, the Institute for Fiscal Policy Studies (IFS) has stated. After its assessment of the mid-year review of the 2019 budget statement presented to Parliament recently, the IFS said government must […]

Ghana invents sanitary pads with banana and plantain fibre-President gifts inventors GH¢40,000 of personal money

A team of two female students from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) – Matilda Asantewaa Sampong and Emilee Otoo Quayson, yesterday emerged the winner of season II of the Presidential Pitch and took home a GH¢60,000 investment package. In addition, they were given GH¢40,000 personal donation by President Nana Addo Dankwa […]