GENERAL NEWS

The Minister of Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako Attah, has justified the total kilometers of new roads constructed in the past five years as mentioned by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in his state-of-the-nation address on Wednesday, March 30.     There has been controversy over the 10,875km figure put …

Sources close to the Presidency, have revealed that President Akufo-Addo has signed the E-levy Bill into law.   Speaking exclusively to JoyNews, Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, confirmed that, the President gave his assent on Thursday, March 31, 2022.   As a result, the Bill, which was passed by …

Ghana’s President, H.E Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Thursday, 31st of March 2022, has officially launched the brand new state-of-the-art Nissan Assembly Plant in Tema.. The $9million assembly plant was built in collaboration with Japan Motors as a licensed assembler on 22,000 m2 plot of land of which 5000 sq …

Some angry staff of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) are demanding the immediate removal of the caretaker minister and the Chief Director of the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection over the non-payment of their salaries for several months now.   They accused Cecilia Dapaah of ineffectiveness and …

The President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is gradually fulfilling his vision of industrializing Ghana, a leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gabby Otchere Darko, has said. Gabby said already Nissan, VW, SinoTruk, Peugeot, Suzuki and Toyota are assembling in the country.   “He came in with …

The former Finance Minister, Dr. Kwabena Duffuor, has said the Akufo-Addo government has forced the electronic transfer levy (E-levy) on Ghanaians because he turned a deaf ear to wise counsel from economic experts such as himself.   On his Facebook page the morning after the E-levy was passed, the former …

The Member of Parliament for Juaboso and also Ranking Member on Parliament’s Health Committee, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has accused the government of deceiving Ghanaians about the Agenda 111 initiative.   According to him, President Akufo-Addo is prepping Ghanaians ahead of time, to accept his failure to deliver on the said …

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The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has hinted that the implementation of the Electronic Transaction Levy may commence in May 2022. According to him, the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) will have all the systems in place for the operationalization of the levy by then. “I think the nation is settled, there …

The Ministry of Finance has released a list of questions that are likely to be asked by members of the general public in respect of the Electronic Transactions Levy (e-Levy) and provided answers to them. This follows the passage of the E-levy Bill on Tuesday, 29th March 2022,  by a …