GENERAL NEWS

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has collected a total tax revenue of GHC113.06 billion for the 2023 fiscal year as against a revised target of GHC109.19 billion. This performance represents a nominal growth rate of 49.3% against an expected growth rate of 44.2% over 2022 fiscal year. Initially, the Authority …

A Ghanaian Immigration lawyer based in New York is facing a fifteen years’ jail term for allegedly defrauding thousands of Ghanaians living in America over green card issuance. Kofi Amankwaa is also reported to have caused financial loss to the American state, caused deportations for some immigrants and denied Green …

Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Ernest Addison, has called on the African investor community and stakeholders to leverage the expertise of the large technologically savvy, and youthful population on the continent for a successful intra-African payment system. Speaking on the topic of ‘Scaling up Mobile Interoperability to Deepen …

Three West African countries, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have announced their decision to break away from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) with immediate effect. These countries are currently led by militaries that seized power from civilian leaders. “After 49 years, the valiant peoples of Burkina Faso, …

Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Dr. Benjamin Kwasi Agordzo who was alleged to have planned an oust of government by the state, has denied masterminding any coup plot against government. The state during the alleged high treason trial against the retired senior police officer accused Mr. Agordzo of engaging in …

The Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu MP has congratulated winners of the New Patriotic Party’s Parliamentary Primaries held on January 27 2024. In a press release dated January 28 2024, he urged members of the party to remain focused. “By what has happened in the elections of yesterday, the endeavour of …

congratulate the winner, delegates, organizers and my colleague aspirants in the just ended New Patriotic Party MP primary election in the Ahafo Ano South West Constituency of Ashanti Region. The NPP has once again succeeded in organizing our internal election to select candidates for the forthcoming general election on December …

The Ghana Police Service has arrested one suspect and is on a manhunt for others in Yendi for electoral-related offenses. The persons are suspected of damaging electoral materials during the sorting of ballots in the internal parliamentary elections of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). Tables and chairs were damaged during …

  Scores of slum dwellers have been rendered homeless after fire swept through wooden structures used as accommodation at Asokwa Old Town in the Asokwa Municipality of the Ashanti Region. The fire, believed to have started from one of the structures at about 3:30 pm on Saturday, spread through other …

The Member of Parliament for Awutu Senya East, Mavis Hawa Koomson, is challenging the Ghana Journalist Association (GJA) to present evidence proving her involvement in the assault on Cape FM journalist, David Kobbina during her vetting in Cape Coast. The MP described the announcement of a total media blackout on …