General News of Wednesday, 22 March 2023 The NIA says it will make the cards available for collection at its district and regional offices The National Identification Authority (NIA) says it has commenced the printing of some 541,529 cards being the backlog of applications since July 2022. The backlog was occasioned by challenges with the supply of blank cards due ...
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Property rate platform to become fully operational by end of March – GRA
Commissioner General of the Ghana Revenue Authority, Reverend Dr. Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah The Commissioner General of the Ghana Revenue Authority, Reverend Dr. Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah, has said that all is set for the launch of a common platform for the collection of property taxes in Ghana. According to him, the platform which is to centralize the collection of property tax rates ...
Read More »Coronamaatregelen zijn voorbij, meeste bedrijven hebben er geen moeite mee
Vanaf vandaag laat het kabinet alle corona-adviezen los. Harde regels waren er al niet, maar adviezen als testen bij klachten en isolatie bij corona werden door veel bedrijven nog overgenomen. De nieuwe lijn van het kabinet volgt op adviezen van het Outbreak Management Team (OMT). Daaruit blijkt dat we het coronavirus nu kunnen zien als een griep. Het bedrijfsleven was ...
Read More »Nederlandse pensioenfondsen verliezen miljoenen door omvallen Amerikaanse bank
NOS Nieuws•Vandaag, 17:47 Maandag 13 maart Nederlandse pensioenbeheerders verliezen bijna 140 miljoen euro door het faillissement van de Amerikaanse Silicon Valley Bank. Zij hadden aandelen in de start-upbank die vrijdag failliet is gegaan. De Amerikaanse overheid sprong dit weekend in waardoor rekeninghouders sinds vandaag weer bij hun geld kunnen. Maar de aandeelhouders worden niet beschermd door het garantiestelsel. “Zij hebben bewust risico ...
Read More »Ghana must prioritize tree crop subsector to wean off dependency on IMF – Afriyie Akoto
Business News of Monday, 13 March 2023 Source: kasapafmonline.com Former Agric Minister, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto The immediate-past Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto is confident that prioritising the tree crop sub-sector will enable Ghana wean itself off financial dependency on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other bilateral donors. According to him, if Ghana had started this journey decades ...
Read More »Ex-gratia: Who are the Article 71 officeholders?
General News of Monday, 13 March 2023 Some Article 71 officeholders Ex-gratia and Article 71 officeholders have become some of the most frequently used words in Ghana following ex-President John Dramani Mahama‘s promise to scrap the former when he becomes president again. But what does ex-gratia mean? This article looks at what ex-gratia is and what the 1992 Constitution of Ghana ...
Read More »FULL TEXT: President Akufo-Addo’s state of the nation address
Business News of Wednesday, 8 March 2023 President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo President Akufo-Addo was in Parliament to present the 2023 state of the nation address on March 8, 2023. The President stated that the address will be a slight digression from the usual state of the nation addresses in former years due to the state of Ghana’s economy. He said: ...
Read More »Ghana Card use as E-Passport on the rise as KIA records 1,089 arrivals in 2022
General News of Tuesday, 28 February 2023 Source: peacefmonline.com File photo of Ghana Card sample The use of the Ghana Card as an electronic travel document by Ghanaians arriving in the country is on the rise, data by the Ghana Immigration Service shows. The biometric national identity card was officially certified by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) as meeting the ...
Read More »Ghanaians abroad will pay between US$20 and US$50 for Ghana Card – NIA CEO
Ghanaian nationals are required to pay between $20 and $50 to have their cards The Chief Executive Officer of the National Identification Authority (NIA), Prof. Kenneth Agyemang Attafuah has disclosed that Ghanaian nationals abroad who seek to acquire a Ghana Card will have to make some financial commitments. Speaking in an interview on Peace FM’s morning show “Kokrokoo”, ...
Read More »MP’s criminal case: Your application is an abuse of court processes – SC to Tsikata
Regional News of Wednesday, 1 March 2023 Source: starrfm.com.gh Tsatsu Tsikata An attempt by the lawyers of the embattled Member of Parliament for Assin North, led by Tsatsu Tsikata for leave to file an additional ground to their review application has failed. Following the Supreme court’s dismissal of an earlier application challenging a High Court ruling in his criminal trial, James ...
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