Bartender Role Is Timeless – Tetteh
Mr Daniel Raynold Tetteh, President of the Ghana Bartenders Association, has called for training packages for bartenders, saying “bartender role is timeless.” He said unfortunately, with all the...
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Four Million Registered Taxpayers Avoided Tax In 2015
Mr Albert Kan-Dapaah, Head of University of Professional Studies’ Centre for Public Accountability, has raised concerns over poor revenue collection practice by authorities, culminating in...
Chiefs Must Account For Utilization of Mining Royalties
Dr Steve Manteaw, Co-chairperson of the Ghana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GHEITI), says chiefs who receive mining royalties must account to their people on the utilization of such...
Government Borrows $50m To Renovate Embassies
Societe Generale Ghana has signed a $50 million Credit Facility agreement with the Government of Ghana to finance the rehabilitation of the Ghana Government Missions abroad. A press release issued by...
GRA Exceeds Mid-Year Revenue Target
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has disclosed that the taxpayers’ office at Agbogbloshie in Accra realised revenue in excess of its mid-year target, despite the low number of traders and...
GPRTU Fights Fuel Price Deregulation
The Ghana Road Transport Union (GPRTU) of the Trades Union Congress has kicked against the implementation of the second phase of the petroleum price deregulation policy meant to liberalise petroleum...
ICU Backs Protest Against ECG Privatization
The Industrial and Commercial Workers Union, ICU, has declared its support for workers of state owned power company, ECG who are resisting government moves hand the company to a private investor for...
Be Advised; We Can Do Worse – ECG Workers Tell Gov’t
Workers of the state-power distributor, Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) are ending their three-hour demonstration declared in the regional and district offices of the ECG today with a call on...
Banks See Opportunities, Threats In Mobile Money
Banks need to deploy more technology and partner mobile network operators (MNOs) to leverage the electronic money revolution, such as mobile money, as a cheaper source of floats for their businesses,...
Journalist Can Stop Corruption In Oil and Gas Sector – ACEP
The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), has called on media practitioners to demand transparency and accountability to help fight corruption in the oil and gas sector. According to the Executive...
Ghana Gas Workers Demonstrate, Management Says It’s Illegal
Ghanaian workers of the Ghana Gas company at Atuabo in the Western Region Friday laid down their tools in demand of better working conditions and training opportunities. The workers who wore red...
Expand Fertiliser Subsidy – Oxfam
Oxfam Ghana has appealed to the Government to expand fertiliser subsidy and irrigation programmes to shoot up earnings in the agricultural sector. Earnings in the sector are lower compared to others...
Peasant Farmers To Benefit From the 2017 Budget
Government says it working towards providing direct support to the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) in the 2017 national budget to help boost food supply for domestic consumption and for...
Scrap VAT On Imported Drugs – Pharmacy Chamber
The Chamber of Pharmacy Ghana has renewed its campaign to get government to scrap Value Added Tax (VAT) on imported medicines. According to the chamber, previous attempts to get the charges removed...
No Value For Money In ECG Sale
The Coalition Against the Sale of Electricity Company of Ghana (CASECG) is vehemently kicking against the sale of ECG, saying its financial standing is viable than the concessioner. Mr. Richard...
Ghana Must Develop Reliable Tax Data
The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIT)-Ghana says it is developing a blueprint to help build a tax base data for the country. The data, after its completion is expected to enhance revenue...
IMF To Consider Ghana’s 3rd Review By Mid September
Citi Business News has gathered that the third review of Ghana’s program with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is scheduled for consideration by middle of September 2016. Responding to a...
Tarzan Disagrees With ECG Workers Over Privatization
The former Chief Executive Officer for the Volta River Authority (VRA) says he disagrees with the workers of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) on their stand on the privatization of the company....
No Budget Overruns This Election Year
Government is committed to ensure that there are no budget overruns this election year, Cassiel Ato Forson, Deputy Minister of Finance has said. He said government is determined to sustain fiscal...
VRA Staff Want CEO Fired Over Plans To Cede T3 Plant To AMERI
Some workers of the Volta River Authority (VRA), have indicated they want the Chief Executive of Authority, Kirk Coffie, sacked, citing administrative incompetence and conflict of interest. The...