Tag Archives: Ursula Owusu-Ekuful

A policy analyst, Selorm Branttie has challenged the Minister of Communication and Digitalisation, Mrs. Ursula Owusu-Ekuful to block SIM cards on September 30, 2022 as she has threatened. According to Mr. Branttie, the consequences of blocking SIM cards will be very far-reaching if Mrs. Owusu-Ekuful sticks to her guns. It …

The Ministry of Communication and Digitalisation has announced that Ghanaians living abroad can use their passports to complete the SIM card registration process. This follows the extension of deadline for SIM card re-registrations to September 30, 2022. The postponement of the deadline is to enable mobile telephone subscribers complete the …

The Minister for Communications, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has announced that a self-service sim reregistration app will be launched on August 2. According to her, this app will enable the public re-register their sim cards in the comfort of their homes without having to queue at any network operator’s office. Speaking at …

Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Minister of Communications and Digitalisation  has warned qwik loan customers who do not want to pay their debt hence, refusing to re-register their SIM cards that they would be found out.   She described their action as evil corruption.   It is recalled that Ningo Prampram Member of …

The Communication Ministry has announced it will not extend the deadline for the nationwide SIM card registration exercise after July 31, 2022. According to the Sector Minister, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, the Ministry and all relevant parties, including the National Communication Authority (NCA) and the telecommunication companies have made a lot of …

The E-levy is being introduced at the lowest rate for any tax in Ghana comparatively at 1.75percent , less than 2 per cent, the Minister of Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has said while making a case for the E-levy to be passed by Parliament.     Speaking at the …

Communications and Digitalisation Minister, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has defended government’s decision to impose a 1.75% phone transactions levy payable by mobile money users per transaction above ¢100. A section of Ghanaians including the Minority in Parliament has kicked against this newly introduced Electronic-levy. The opposers argue that the move will intensify …

A member of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs committee of Parliament, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has asked the Pentecostal and Charismatic Council (PCC), to rephrase their memo that was presented to Parliament on the anti-gay bill that is before the House. The Minister of Communications noted that aspects of the memo …

Kwesi Pratt Jnr, Managing Editor, Insight newspaper, has disclosed that Ursula Owusu-Ekuful could become the New Patriotic Party’s next vice president. According to him, some powerful people within the NPP are considering the current Minister of Communications to partner the flagbearer of the governing party into the 2024 general election. …

Five ministerial nominees out of the 30 so far vetted have been deferred by the Minority MPs on Parliament’s Appointments Committee to reappear for further questioning. They are Communication MInister nominee, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful; Railway Minister nominee, John Peter Amewu; Roads Minister nominee, Kwasi Amoako-Attah; Attorney General and Minister of Justice …