Panellists at a virtual forum on COVID-19 and the vision of ‘Ghana Beyond Aid’ have called for a paradigm shift in attitudes of Ghanaians to achieve the agenda of economic self-sufficiency. They asked the Government to infuse the Charter of the Ghana Beyond Aid into the curricula of the education system at all levels to ensure the youth-owned the programme. ...
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Parliament approves US$3.1 million VAT exemption
Parliament has approved a request to waive Domestic VAT totaling US$3.1 million on local purchases and services in the rehabilitation and upgrading of equipment in Technical Universities, Polytechnics and Technical and Vocational Training Centres. The request for the VAT exemption complies with the Concessional Loan Agreement between the Government of Ghana and the Export-Import Bank of China. Dr Mark Assibey-Yeboah, ...
Read More »Obour promises to increase NPP votes by 10,000 in Asante-Akim South
Bice Obour Osei-Kuffour, an aspiring parliamentary candidate for theNew Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Asante-Akim South is promising to add 10,000 more votes to what the party received in the 2016 elections. The former President of the Musician Union of Ghana (MUSIGA), who is popularly known as “Obour” in the entertainment circles, believes he has what it takes to motivate ...
Read More »Stop using Charlotte Osei’s logo – EC tells media
The Electoral Commission has expressed concern about the continuous use of a logo it discarded about two years ago by some media houses. The Commission had cause to issue a statement on Thursday, June 11 signed by its Acting Director of Public Affairs Mrs. Sylvia Annoh on the issue. The statement described the current logo of the Commission with an ...
Read More »Attorney General’s legal submissions on the new voters’ register to Supreme Court
Godfred Yeboah Dame, the Deputy Attorney General (AG), has indicated in his legal submissions to the Supreme Court of Ghana in the case of NDC v AG & EC, that the “current voter register is flawed and undermines the right to vote.” In a 32-page document, the AG who is also the first defendant in the case noted that the ...
Read More »NDC vs EC: Supreme Court forced us to abandon one relief – Amaliba
The Director of Legal Affairs of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Abraham Amaliba, has said the party was compelled by the Supreme Court to let go its first relief in its two-pronged suit against the Electoral Commission rather than a voluntary withdrawal of same by the party. “If your correspondent was in court, he would have told you that the NDC did not ...
Read More »Álle klanten van KLM met een voucher kunnen hun geld terugvragen
Alle klanten van KLM die vanwege het uitvallen van een vlucht een voucher kregen, kunnen deze omruilen voor cash geld. Tot nu toe gold de geld terug garantie alleen voor tickets met een datum na 15 mei. Natasja de Groot 11-06-20, 16:29 Laatste update: 16:53 De luchtvaartmaatschappij benadrukt dat gezien de omvang van de crisis en het aantal annuleringen, het langer duurt dan ...
Read More »We’ll remove child beggars, street children from streets – Gender Minister
The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has expressed worry about the high prevalence of child beggars and street children in the country and has consequently rolled out programmes to ensure that they are completely cleared from the streets. Gender, Children and Social Protection Minister Cynthia Mamle Morrison attributed the increasing numbers of child beggars on the country’s street to the ...
Read More »NIA begins distribution of Ghana cards in Kumasi
The National Identification Authority (NIA), on Thursday began the distribution of the Ghana cards to applicants who could not obtain their cards during the time of registration. The one-week exercise is expected to provide cards to those who registered for it but could not obtain them since they were not ready during the time of registration in December 2019. A ...
Read More »Govt prepares to outdoor national airline with global resumption of air operations
Minister of Aviation, Joseph Kofi Adda, has said that government is aggressively working to ensure the country’s new national airline commences concurrently with the global resumption of air operations. According to him, even though the partial closure of borders worldwide has come at a great loss to players in the sector, the country has a rare opportunity to tap some ...
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