Challenges with ICUMS resolved – GRA Commissioner-General
Acting Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Rev. Ammishaddai Owusu-Asamoah, has intimated that challenges encountered in the deployment of the Integrated Customs Management...
Finance Minister to present mid-year budget review in July
The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, is expected to present the mid-year budget review and supplementary estimates in July.According to the Majority Leader, Osei Kyei...
Meet the face behind ‘waakye in jars’
It has emerged that Ghanaian hiplife rapper, Reggie Rockstone, is the face behind the 'waakye in jars' causing a stir on social media.This comes...
Hotels reopen with strict Covid-19 protocols
Hotels across the country are reopening with new safety protocols amid the coronavirus pandemic.Already, the pandemic has wreaked havoc to the already struggling hospitality...
Give special support to pensioners – Pensions Authority to govt
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA), Hayford Atta Krufi, is urging the government to pay special attention to...
Ghana Railway Company gets govt support
Government has injected capital into the Ghana Railway Company Limited (GRCL) to enable the company become self-reliant and effective in its operations.Due to this...
Seth Terkper calls for differentiation between 2020 budget and Covid-19 fiscal gaps
Former Finance Minister, Seth Terkper, has urged parliament to be vigilant and ensure a differentiation is made between the fiscal gap created by the...
Immigration officers intercept govt-subsidised farm inputs at Saboba
Immigration officers at Saboba in the Northern Region have intercepted a track full of government-subsidised farm inputs being smuggled to Togo Tuesday dawn.JoyNews sources...
Biakoye residents lament over heavily polluted Volta Lake [Watch]
Some residents of Tapa Abotuase in the Oti region are wallowing in sorrow over the quantity of filth that has taken over the district...
Arrest NAM 1 now – Aggrieved Menzgold customers demand
A lavish artiste signing ceremony held in Accra over the weekend has sparked fresh calls for the CEO of defunct gold dealership firm, Menzgold,...
Angry Menzgold customers bounce back; want NAM1 arrested [Listen]
JoyNews/AdomNews · Angry Menzgold customers bounce back; want NAM1 arrestedAggrieved customers of Menzgold are pushing the government to arrest Menzgold Chief Executive Officer, Nana...
Parliament passes CIMG bill
Ghana’s Parliament has passed the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Ghana (CIMG) Bill, 2019, after the third reading in the house of Parliament.The bill...
Seth Terkper writes: Parliament’s review must separate 2020 budget and Covid-19 Gaps
IntroductionThe final article in the “BOG MPC AND DEFICIT FINANCING” series calls onParliament to re-examine the revised 2020 Budget and COVID-19 fiscal gaps that...
NAM 1 is back and this is why he is trending
Nana Appiah Mensah, Chief Executive Officer of defunct gold dealership firm Menzgold, is back in business.His return, however, has got a lot of...
Ghana Link in continuous process of resolving UNIPASS challenges – PR Manager
Managers of the new Integrated Customs Management Systems (ICUMS), Ghana Link Network Services Limited, has appealed to freight forwarders and clearing agents to be...
NLA, GRA set to launch VAT raffle
Two Government Revenue Mobilization Institutions, the National Lottery Authority (NLA) and the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) are set to launch the Value Added Tax...
Isaac Adongo writes: UNIPASS/ICUMS is a messed manual system; stop the huge revenue theft
The Government of Ghana led by H.E Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo Addo has deliberately deployed a weak so-called Integrated Customs Management System (ICUM) through Unipass...
NLA and GRA set to launch VAT Raffle
The National Lottery Authority (NLA) and Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), the two strategic Revenue Mobilisation Institutions for Ghana's Government, will officially launch VAT Raffle...
Customs Officials at Elubo deny challenges with ICUMS
Customs officials at the Elubo land border – one out Ghana’s six land borders - have denied claims of challenges faced by...
How to become a billionaire – 7 characteristics of the rich & wealthy
In 1916, John D. Rockefeller, the father of the petroleum industry, became the world’s first billionaire.Nearly a century later in 2015, there were...
Quickly fix chaotic, snail-paced UNIPASS – Pharmaceutical Industry to gov’t
The Chamber of Pharmacy, Ghana and the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association of Ghana, have expressed qualms about the difficulties associated with import clearance at Ghana's...
ICUMS deployment: The new normal?
Dear Media practitioners,We have met here today to address some pertinent issues that have been raised and which have affected the roll out...
ICUMS records 1,452 transactions at land borders
Integrated Customs Management Systems (ICUMS) has registered 1,452 transactions at the land frontiers since it was deployed.Out of this, 408 were direct imports into...
Hollard insurance launches first virtual chatbot to boost accessibility
Hollard Insurance has launched the first virtual insurance chatbot in Ghana to make insurance more accessible to Ghanaians via popular messaging channels such as...
BoG shoddily inscribes amount on GH¢ 2 coin?
The Central Bank in November 2019 introduced the GH¢100 and GH¢200 notes as well as a GH¢2 coin as part of the country’s denominations.The...
CLOSSAG threatens strike action
The Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOSSAG) has hinted of plans to embark on industrial action in the next 14 days.The...
Govt to train 26,000 entrepreneurs – GH¢50m earmarked for programme
The government has started the process to train 26,000 young entrepreneurs across the country under the third phase of the Presidential Business Support Programme...
Sinapi Aba Savings and Loans makes donation to clients
Sinapi Aba Savings and Loans (SASL) Ghana, has provided for its clients some 5,000 face masks and 5,000 hand sanitizers to help combat the...
Details of why and how Venture Capital CEO agreed to refund GH¢15m
Details are emerging about how the Attorney General’s (AG’s) Department was able to conclude a settlement of a whopping GH¢15 million to be paid...
MTN reacts to NCA’s ‘monopoly breaking policies’
Telecommunications giant, Mobile Telephone Network (MTN), has responded to media reports on the National Communications Authority's (NCA) decision to implement some specific policies to...
Hollard Ghana distributes PPEs to Kamina Barracks Hospital, NEDCo, others
Insurance group, Hollard Ghana, in support of the fight against the spread of COVID-19 hasdonated hundreds of Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) to several institutions...
NCA to break MTN’s ‘near monopoly’ in telecom industry
The National Communications Authority (NCA), per a directive of the Communications Ministry, will in the coming days put in place certain policies aimed at...
ICUMS rakes in over GH₵177m at Tema Port in one week
The new Integrated Customs Management System (ICUMS) is said to have raked in GH₵177.3 million in revenue at the Tema Port one week of...
GRA replies IMANI Africa
Management of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has responded to some assertions made by IMANI Africa against the newly deployed Integrated Customs Management System...
ICUMS make strides at Tema port, process over 4,000 BoEs
New managers of Ghana’s ports, Ghana Link Network Services Limited (Ghana Link), has denied claims by freight forwarders over the new Integrated Customs Management...
Checkout list of top 15 richest black people in the world
In the list compiled by the Africa Facts Zone, Nigeria's Aliko Dangote leads the pack with $9.5bn, while Mike Adenuga makes number three on...
Komenda Sugar Factory to be revived once borders reopen – Trade Minister
The Trade and Industry Minister, Alan Kyerematen says the Komenda Sugar Factory will be revived once the country’s borders reopen.The country’s borders have been...
Augson Global warns public of fake Facebook accounts and impersonation
A multi-sector investment conglomerate based in Ghana, Augson Global Limited has advised the general public to be wary of persons cloning the company on...
Seth Terkper’s view: BoG reversing its stance on budget deficit financing
IntroductionDuring the decade-long Global Financial and other crisis from 2008, BOG did not apply any of its fiscal powers under the Act 612. On...
John Kumah honoured for being Most Outstanding Integrity CEO
The Africa Centre for Integrity and Development (ACID), an Africa-based anti-corruption and Good Governance advocacy Civil Society Organisation, has presented an award to John...