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Govt establishes committee to implement Unemployment Insurance Scheme

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Government has established a tripartite technical committee to come out with modalities to implement the National Unemployment Insurance Scheme announced in the mid-year budget statement. Mr Ignatius Baffour-Awuah, the Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, said the scheme, when operational, would focus on providing direct income support to workers who lost their Continue Reading
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New policy to allow trotro, taxi drivers to swap old cars for new ones coming

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Government is proposing a National Transport Recapitalisation Project which, if implemented, will provide a lease-to-own option to all commercial drivers to exchange their old cars for newly assembled ones in Ghana. According to Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, the issuance of national identity cards along with the implementation of the digital property address system, Continue Reading
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Where did you now get the cash to pay depositors?- Adongo asks Nana Addo

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Bolgatanga Central MP Isaac Adongo has wondered where the Akufo-Addo government got GHS3.56 billion with which it intends paying all locked-up funds of depositors of the collapsed microfinance companies, savings & loans and finance houses. The payments start from Wednesday, 16 September 2020. The government had earlier said it will refund the monies in a […]Continue Reading
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Access Bank ‘Perfect Start Promo’ Helping Children To Learn, Save And Play

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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to destabilize education, businesses, companies, among others, institutions are devising ways to adapt to the changes brought about by the new normal. Undoubtedly, the current situation has boosted digitalization and online engagements among companies and their clients as well as the general public. It is against this background that Continue Reading
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GRA urged to adopt innovative strategies to enhance revenue mobilization

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The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), has been urged to adopt innovative strategies to help increase revenue mobilization in the covid-19 era. The Authority should also set up effective models that would enhance the intensification of tax education and collection to help boost government revenue to sustain the country’s economy in the difficult times. Mr. Christopher Dapaah, Continue Reading
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GIPC boss backs reforms to improve ease of doing business

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The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), Yofi Grant, is backing government’s business regulatory reforms programme to help reverse Ghana’s decline on the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Index. Mr. Grant told Business24 while government has over the years embarked on extensive reforms to improve the ease of doing business, the […]Continue Reading
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Financial sector cleanup: All customers to receive cash instead of bonds

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All customers of the collapsed micro finance, savings and loans companies will effective Wednesday, September 16, 2020 receive cash instead of the earlier promised government backed bonds. This follows the decision to convert all the government backed non interest bearing commercial paper (bonds) into cash at no discount in respect of the payments to affected […]Continue Reading
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You allowed ‘Akyem Sakawa Mafia’ protest, why not Agyapa deal – ASEPA accuses police of discrimination

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The Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA) has condemned what they say is discrimination by the police in the application of the Public Order Act. The pressure group cites the decision of the police to decline their notification to demonstrate against the controversial Agyapa Minerals Royalties agreement as an unjust one. The agreement which is […]Continue Reading
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Menzgold cannot be included in government’s bailout fund – SEC

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The Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) has rejected the Coalition of Aggrieved Customers of Menzgold Ghana’s (CACM) request to be included in government’s bailout package established to pay locked up funds of depositors of collapsed financial companies. In the reply dated September 9, the Commission emphatically mentions that members of the Coalition cannot be included Continue Reading
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World’s gold miners wary of production ramp-up despite price surge

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The world’s top gold miners are retrenching after COVID-19 related shutdowns despite record prices for the yellow metal, with cost-conscious executives prioritizing investor returns over production growth. Gold prices have jumped 30% this year to roughly $2,000 an ounce as central banks dial-up stimulus measures in response to the coronavirus pandemic. That has fuelled a Continue Reading
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Bawumia urges GNPC, Aker Energy, Newmont and others to support Zipline drone project

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The Vice President has urged the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Ghana Gas, Aker Energy, Newmont Ghana and other corporate bodies to support the medical drone. Dr Mahamudu Bawumia was speaking during the commissioning of the third Zipline medical drone delivery site located at Vobsi in the West Mamprusi Municipality of the North East Region. […]Continue Reading
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All 37 Business Resource Centres to be connected by Virtual Public Network – Alan Kyeremanten

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Even as the government sets up Business Resource Centres (BRCs) across all districts and municipalities in the country, Trade Minister Alan Kyeremanten has hinted of an establishment of a common public network that will connect the services. “These BRCs will not be operating in isolation. In fact, there will be a virtual public network to […]Continue Reading