The Covid-19 Pandemic has pushed the country’s deficit and debts to worrying levels according to statistics presented in the 2021 Budget statement read in Parliament on Friday 12th March 2021 by the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu. He said the current debt stock is 291.6 billion cedis with 76.1% GDP as compared to 2016 where the debt stock was ...

Claims by the trial investigator, Chief Insp. Thomas Prempeh Mercer that board members of Cocobod were hoodwinked to approve the purchase of lithovit fertilizer suffered yet another credibility test on Thursday. The investigator was categorical that none of the board members, except for COCOBOD’s Chief Executive, knew that lithovit was an untested product when the board approved its procurement for ...

YouTube is set to start deducting taxes from creators outside of United States (US) on the earnings they generate from viewers in the US. The new policy will begin as early as June 2021, the Google-owned company said in an email to creators. YouTube has also asked creators to submit their tax information in AdSense “to determine the correct amount ...

The Running Mate of the NDC in the 2020 Elections Prof. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang on Thursday led a delegation on behalf of former President John Mahama and the NDC to console the bereaved families of the victims of last Sunday’s tragic drowning incident at Apam. The delegation included the NDC Central Regional Parliamentary Caucus and some NDC Regional and Constituency ...

The majority leader in parliament Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu is reading the 2021 budget and economic policy for the year on behalf of Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta who is currently in the United States to seek medical care. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo made the decision to allow the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs to present the budget on behalf of the government ...

Paul Adom-Otchere, the host of Good Evening Ghana on Metro TV, has alleged that Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in the country were going about gossiping with Daniel Domelevo, the immediate past Auditor-General who was forced to retire by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. According to Adom-Otchere, the leaders of these CSOs always went to the office of Daniel Yao Domelevo at 5 PM ...

King Goodwill Zwelithini of the Zulu nation in South Africa has died in the hospital where he was being treated for diabetes-related issues. The king, 72, was the leader of South Africa’s largest ethnic group and an influential traditional ruler. He had been admitted to a hospital in KwaZulu-Natal last week to monitor his ongoing diabetes condition. The king’s prime ...

President Akufo-Addo has charged all sixteen (16) regional ministers to ensure that they maintain total security, peace, and order in their respective regions where they are to serve. The President gave the regional ministers the charge when he addressed them at the Jubilee House on Thursday the 11th of March 2021, at a swearing-in ceremony where he administered three oaths ...

Outspoken Ghanaian journalist Bridget Otoo says she would have acted differently if she was in Nana Aba’s seat as host of Starr FM’s Starr Chat when she interviewed maverick politician Koku Anyidoho. The CEO of the Attah Mills Institute threatened to walk out of the interview when Nana Aba asked if he wished his wife on the recently celebrated International ...

Some users have reported seeing a screen saying, “If you don’t live with the owner of this account, you need your own account to keep watching.” A spokesperson told the BBC: “This test is designed to help ensure that people using Netflix accounts are authorised to do so.” A decision has yet to be made as to whether the company ...