The minority MPs in parliament have threatened to reject new taxes announced by Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, in the 2022 budget presentation. Ofori-Atta announced the scrapping of road tolls and the introduction of E-levy to cover Mobile money transactions, remittances and other electronic transactions. Fees and charges of government services have also been increased by 15%. “Total value of transactions ...

Some mobile money agents have rejected the introduction of the tax introduced on mobile money transactions by the government. Some of the agents told TV3 after the budget presentation that “The telcos are already paying and you are coming to charge the vendor for it? How much are we making out of it? I am a graduate and I am ...

Reports from Nigeria say the P-Square brothers have finally decided to comeback as a music group years after their feud leading to splitting. They have resolved their long rift and will soon give the world something worth listening and dancing to. A video in circulation on social media since Wednesday showed the members of the defunct music group sharing some ...

Ghanaian football administrator Jonathan Abe Pobee says he disagrees with calls from the South African Football Association for a replay of their 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifier with the Black Stars. The South Africans have questioned the decisions of Senegalese referee Ndiaye Maguetta in Sunday’s 1-0 defeat at the Cape Coast Sports Stadium. The result sealed Ghana’s progression to the ...

Award-winning actress, Yvonne Nelson took her birthday celebration this year out of the shores of Ghana for the first time. She spent the special day on November 12, in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates with some close friends including popular music producer, Guiltybeatz, who produced three songs on Beyonce’s Lion King album. The beautiful leggy actress cum producer is ...

Ellembele MP Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah, has said that the 2022 budget statement that was presented by the Finance Minister Keb Ofori Atta does not provide reliefs to businesses to enable them thrive. According to him, the budget shows how the public sector debt is shooting up. “We have moved from 120 billion debt to 380billion so our debt to ...

Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor has said that the Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta has outlined an ambitious, comprehensive plan to boost youth entrepreneurship in the country. Speaking to TV3 after the budget presentation on Wednesday November 17, the Damongo MP said ” The Finance Minister announced a very robust, ambitious comprehensive interventions to unleash entrepreneurship ...

Nigerian former presidential aide, Reno Omokri, has slammed women who are financially dependent on their boyfriends. He likened them to thieves who want to be remitted for no work done. And asked men to take care of their families instead. In an Instagram post, the renowned author and realist sought to dissuade men from making financial investments in women they ...

The Ghana Football Association has prevailed on all footballers to disregard the claims of the South African Football Association that a recent World Cup qualifier between the Bafana Bafana and the Black Stars of Ghana, was fixed. According to the GFA, the South African Football Association has chosen to spread falsehood to the media rather than project the real picture ...

Ningo Prampram lawmaker Samuel Nartey George has said the government did not engage the telecom companies before announcing the introduction of the tax on mobile money services in the 2022 budget statement. Sam George who is also a member of the communications committee of Parliament described the government as ‘clueless bunch’. “Let me state for the records that the govt ...