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Youth and Sports Ministry Receives 46 Million Cedis

The Ministry of Youth and Sports has been allocated about GHS 46 million for its activities for the 2017 year. This was...

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Ghana To Be Dumping Ground For Over-Aged Spare Parts – Ato Forson

Former Deputy Finance Minister Ato Forson has condemned the abolishment of import duties on spare parts, claiming the...

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Gov’t Allocates Ghc456m For ‘1-District-1-Factory’ Project

The government has budgeted GH¢456.3 million to be used to implement its flagship one-district one-factory policy...

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2017 Budget Statement In Snapshots

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has presented the 2017 budget statement in Parliament. He said, among other things in...

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2017 Budget Bereft of Specificity – Minority

The maiden budget statement of the Akufo-Addo-Bawumia government delivered Thursday by Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta...

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NPP’s 2017 Budget Full of Contradictions

A former minister of communications in the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) government, Dr Edward Omane...

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Restoration of Trainee Allowances To Cost GHc252.2 Million

The restoration of teachers and nurses trainee allowances is expected to cost some GH¢252.2 million. The...

Business

Importers Laud President Akufo-Addo

Importers in Ghana have welcomed the decision by the Akufo-Addo-led government to scrap the 1% special import levy as a...

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Abossey-Okai Spare Parts Dealers Jubilate Over Tax Cut

Spare parts dealers at Abossey-Okai in Accra, have lauded government for the decision to scrap taxes on the importation...

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Free SHS To Be Funded With ABFA

The planned free senior high school (SHS) programme scheduled to take off from September 2017 will be financed from the...

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2017 Budget Bereft of Specificity – Minority

The maiden budget statement of the Akufo-Addo-Bawumia government delivered Thursday by Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta...

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Public Workers Without Biometric SSNIT ID To Be Removed From Payroll

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta says public sector workers who are not biometrically registered on the Social Security...

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Abossey-Okai Spare Parts Dealers Jubilate Over Tax Cut [Video]

Spare parts dealers at Abossey-Okai in Accra, have lauded government for the decision to scrap taxes on the importation...

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Biblical Ofori-Atta Tags ‘5-Loaves-2-Fishes’ Budget ‘As?mpa Budget’

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta was on the floor of Parliament on Thursday, March 2 to deliver the 2017 budget...

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Gov’t To Review ‘basic Education’ To Include Senior High Schools

President Akufo-Addo’s government says it will review the concept of basic education to include Secondary Education...

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How Social Media Reacted To 2017 Budget

People took to social media to express diverse views on the Budget Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has presented the...

Sports

Government To Transform National Sports College Into A Centre of Excellence

The government of Ghana has revealed plans to revamp the redundant Winneba Sports college and transform it into a...

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Economy Projected To Grow By 6.3% In 2017

Government has projected a  real GDP growth of 6.3 percent; with oil for the year 2017, while non-oil real GDP growth...

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Government Will Give Efua Sutherland Park Face Lift

The finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta has assured that the government in partnership with the private sector will...