GENERAL NEWS

In his capacity as African Union Gender Champion, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Thursday, 25th November 2021, attended the inaugural conference on violence against women and young girls, held in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.   The Conference was hosted in partnership with the African Women Leaders Network (AWLN) …

Seven Members of Parliament, of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Thursday came under attack when some suspected highway robbers attacked their convoy while on their way to an official engagement.   The incident reportedly took place on the Sampa-Mankraso highway in the Ahafo Region, when the robbers who …

As President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo travels to Atlanta, USA, video footage of the US$14,000-an-hour LX-DIO aircraft which he [Akufo-Addo] has been using for his foreign trips has surfaced on social media. The blue and white ultra-luxury aircraft was captured by an unknown source at the Kotoka International Airport on …

Members of the #FixTheCountry movement will today, Friday, November 26, 2021, hit the streets of Accra to demonstrate against some of the policies announced in the 2022 budget. The Finance Minister in reading the budget announced the introduction of a 1.75% tax on all electronic transactions. The Finance Minister also …

Information available to Asaase News has it that government may be considering the removal of the proposed electronic levy (E-Levy) in the 2022 budget statement and economic policy of the Akufo-Addo administration on sum of money sent by foreign worker to individual in the country which is better known as …

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The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) has backed the proposal by the government to impose a 1.75% levy on all electronic transactions, starting from January, 2022. NUGS believes that the e-levy is a ‘step in the right direction,’ as it will help the government generate revenue to tackle youth …

The Municipal Environmental and Sanitation Officer for Bekwai Municipal in the Ashanti Region, Mr Eric Cudjoe saids, government must consider implementing a policy that will make it compulsory for inmates of the various prisons to be engaged as street cleaners.   According to him, almost all the sanitary labourers at …

The Bono East Regional Director of Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA), Madam Cecilia Kagya has said the country will not experience any shortage of food in 2023 as many Ghanaians are suggesting.   “We thank God very much that this year the country has experience a long range rainfall …

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has extended the contract of the Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority (NIA), Prof. Kenneth Agyemang Attafuah, by two years. The extension took effect from November 11, 2021. This was contained in an internal memo circulated among staff of the authority and sighted …