Street beggars won’t pay tax – GRA backtracks

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has denied claims by its Principal Revenue Chief at the Small Tax Payer Office in the Northern region that it intends to tax street beggars as part of its...

GRA seizes 244 uncustomed vehicles in 2018

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has vowed to seize all uncustomed cars in the country. Since the beginning of the year, 244 of such cars have been seized. Last year, 754 cars were seized across...
Bawumia and Peter Amewu in a handshake

New base land maps survey for Ghana soon – Bawumia

After 44 years, a new set of national base land maps are to be drawn for Ghana soon, the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has disclosed. The last national survey was undertaken in 1974, after...
Dr Mahamudu Bawumia

Gov’t welcomes private sector participation in land admin reforms – Bawumia

Government is calling on the private sector to take an active part in the ongoing reforms in the administration of Ghana’s lands in order to make the process more efficient and effective. Unlike in the...
Ken Ofori-Atta

Expect more jobs soon – Ofori-Atta

The Minister of Finance, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, has stated that the government is working assiduously to translate the improvement in the macroeconomic fundamentals into the creation of jobs. “We appreciate the concerns of the people...

Yvonne Nduom wins Best Female Entrepreneur 2017

Groupe Nduom’s Senior Vice President, Yvonne Nduom, has been adjudged Best Female Entrepreneur for the year 2017 at the 8th Ghana Entrepreneur & Corporate Executive Awards held over the weekend. On the same night President...

T-Mobile to buy Sprint in $26bn merger

US telecoms giant T-Mobile has agreed to buy its rival Sprint in a $26bn (£18.9bn) deal. The merger of America's third and fourth largest mobile carriers is designed to create a more competitive firm with...

Accra City Hotel wins Global Business Awards

Accra City Hotel has been awarded with the “Leading Hotel Company of the Year” award. The global European Business & Finance Awards from UK is an award which acknowledges a company that through its performance,...

Africa has to be aggressive to achieve economic independence – Olivier Kamanzi

The CEO of the African Global Chamber of Commerce has said Africa needs to rise up to the challenges of the 21st century by being more innovative, aggressive and entrepreneurial. “Everything is here in Africa...

“You have a month to seize and destroy pirated textiles”

After months of agitations, thousands of angry textile workers today poured onto the streets of Accra to demand the seizure and destruction of pirated wax prints on the markets. The charged crowd of protestors gave...