Mobile Money agents across the country are kicking against a 10% tax being imposed on their earnings by the government. The agents at an emergency meeting on Friday June 25, 2021, said they can no longer bear any extra financial levy on their operations. In a communiqué following the meeting, the Mobile Money Agents Association of Ghana (MMAG) said all efforts to engage the government and stakeholders on the tax have not been successful. The government, in a new directive, has asked telcos to deduct a 10% tax from the cash-out service of MoMo agents. According to the association, the…
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Residents in the Eastern part of the Greater Accra Region will from today, [Monday, June 28, 2021], experience power interruptions otherwise known as ‘dumsor’ for the next 22 days. This is according to the Electricity Company of Ghana, ECG. The outages, according to the power distributor, is to allow the Ghana Grid Company to complete the last phase of repair works on some bulk supply points and transmission cables in Accra. 71 communities within Accra are expected to be affected. In an interview with Citi News, Managing Director of ECG, Kwame Agyeman-Budu, said his outfit will try its best to…
An Accra High Court has ruled that Receiver of Unibank, Nii Amanor Dodoo breached portions of the Banks and Specialized Deposit taking Institutions Act, 2016 (Act 930) when he accepted the role. The Court presided over by Justice Afi Agbanu Kudomor explained that he should not have accepted the appointment because it had been less than two years after Unibank’s official liquidation. This is the ruling in a case filed by Mr. Dodoo against founder of the defunct bank, Dr. Kwabena Duffour and 9 others. Lawyers for Dr. Duffour had urged the court to dismiss the case since the receiver…
Government Statistician, Professor Samuel Kobina Annim has reminded all persons resident in Ghana, who intend to abstain from the census exercise, that they could could be fined or imprisoned. According to him, the Ghana Statistical Service has been made aware of persons in some areas who have decided to decline the call to honour this obligation. Speaking at a press briefing in Accra Sunday, the Government Statistician said, “Persons in specific areas like;, Talensi, Bongo, Bolgatanga districts and some districts in the Greater Accra region, specifically, the Ledzokuku and Krowor districts are declining to partake in the exercise. We are…
Former President John Dramani Mahama on Saturday, June 26, joined the family, friends and colleagues of the late Kwesi Sainti Baffoe-Bonnie, fondly known as Babo at the Agape Church for his burial service and funeral. The late Baffoe-Bonnie was a member of the National Democratic Congress. He served as a Senior Political Advisor to the then Vice President of the Republic of Ghana; John Dramani Mahama, from 2009 to 2012. From 2012 to 2016, he also served as a Presidential Staffer and Senior Advisor on Political Affairs to John Dramani Mahama who was then President of the Republic of Ghana.…
Executive Director of the Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), Benjamin Boakye, says the laws of Ghana do not function against the ‘mighty’ in society. This affords them many leeways to evade the law. He was speaking in respect of the Police’s selective enforcement of President Akufo-Addo’s Executive Order on public gathering amidst the coronavirus pandemic on JoyNews’ Newsfile Saturday, June 26. According to him, the manner in which those in authority blatantly breach laws they impose on the entire populace, “comes at a cost to all of us and to the state.” “So I think morally, beyond the law,…
Researcher at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, Mawuse Oliver Barker-Vormawor has alleged that judgement debts are becoming an institutionalized money laundering avenue in Ghana. He believes that the lack of required seriousness attached to dealing with international arbitral claims has deprived the state of resources that could have been channeled into developmental projects. Speaking to Samson Lardy Anyenini, host of JoyNews‘ Newsfile, Saturday, Mr Barker-Vormawor alleged that the phenomenon has become an entrenched framework used by public actors to deliberately defraud the state of huge amounts of money. He bemoaned the failure of the state to institute protocols…
Matt Hancock is facing calls to quit as health secretary from fellow Tory MPs after he breached social distancing guidance by kissing a colleague. The health secretary apologised after pictures emerged of him with Gina Coladangelo, reportedly taken on 6 May. Conservative MPs Duncan Baker and Sir Christopher Chope have said he should go, while former secretary of state Esther McVey said she would have quit in Mr Hancock’s position. The PM considers the matter closed. A Downing Street spokesman said Boris Johnson accepted Mr Hancock’s apology, adding the prime minister had full confidence in the health secretary. Labour and…
President Akufo-Addo has appointed former Member of Parliament for Offinso South in the Ashanti Region, Ben Abdallah Banda, as Coordinator for Zongo Development Affairs in the Office of the President. The new portfolio replaces the previous Ministry for Inner City and Zongo Development which has now been scrapped. Ben Abdallah until his appointment served as chairman for Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee in the seventh Parliament where he oversaw the enactment of a number of Legislations including the Office of the Special Prosecutor Act, Vigilantism and Related Offences Act, Right to Information Act among others. He was also Chairman…
newmont ghanaThe dead body of a man believed to be in his 40s has been found in the Kasoa Okrudu River in the Awutu Senya East Municipality of the Central Region. Reports indicate that he was killed and dumped into the river. According to the residents who spoke to Kasapa FM’s Yaw Boagyan, they started experiencing a serious stench in the area about three days ago, just for them to wake up Friday morning [June 25] to find a dead body. Residents living in the area are now living in fear and panic since unfortunate incidents of this nature continue…