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Covid-19 Pandemic Costs Ghana GH¢ 25.3 Billion – Akufo-Add   President Akufo-Addo on Tuesday said the country lost more than GH¢13.5 billion in revenue in 2020 because of the economic shocks induced by the Covid-19 pandemic. In his state of the nation address to Parliament, the President said with additional …

Frontline health workers at the Tamale COVID-19 treatment centre have threatened to lay down their tools by Friday 12th March over the government’s failure to pay them the 50 percent basic salary allowance which has been in arrears since last year. In a statement sighted by Citi News, they highlighted …

  The Information Ministry says the government has no plans to punish any citizen refusing to be inoculated against   The government has denied media reports that it intends passing laws to sanction Ghanaians who refuse to take the COVID-19 vaccine, a statement from the Information Ministry said. “The said …

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Two persons have died while 30 others sustained various degrees of injuries in a car crash on the Kintampo-Tamale highway on Tuesday.       The accident according to eyewitnesses happened at about 5 pm near the Soronoase tollbooth in the Bono East Region. A detached tyre of a tractor …

  The co-founder and Executive Director of Afrobarometer, Prof. Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi has questioned President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s commitment to fighting corruption, following the forced retirement of immediate-past Auditor General, Daniel Yao Domelevo.   Mr. Gyimah-Boadi said the recent development involving Mr. Domelevo only exposes the President’s lack of credibility …

  Former Auditor General, Daniel Domelevo has expressed appreciation to civil society organizations focused on fighting corruption in Ghana, indicating that their support was very helpful to him while he was in office. He said their support ensured that the fight against corruption was waged strongly.       Speaking …

      A former Auditor General, Daniel Yao Domelevo has revealed that President Nana Akufo-Addo was one significant person who encouraged him to take up the appointment as Auditor General when he was appointed by John Mahama in the tail end of the latter’s administration in 2016.     …

  The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin says he will not tolerate any act likely to turn the House of Parliament into a playground.   “Don’t turn Parliament into a playground. I’m not going to tolerate that at all,” he warned on Wednesday, March 10, 2021 during the debate of …

The National Identification Authority says existing Tax Identification Numbers (TINs) will be phased out gradually as Ghana Card numbers officially take their place starting April 1, 2021. Though it has not provided timelines, the authority says processes for all national identification numbers to become TINs and social security numbers are …