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THE GHANA Union of Traders’ Association (GUTA) has expressed its dissatisfaction over alleged attempts by Parliament to review the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) Act 2013 (Act 865) to exempt Nigerian retailers from paying a $1 million capital requirement under the Act to facilitate trade in Ghana. This Act, if reviewed and consequently passed, would enable Nigeria traders to ply ...

Former Member of Parliament for Kumbungu, Ras Mubarak, has slammed Madina lawmaker, Francis-Xavier Sosu, labelling him ‘foolishly courageous,’ over his stance on same-sex relationships. Mubarak was reacting to a story that reported Sosu’s comments about how a strong opposition of Speaker Alban Bagbin to the Lesbians, Gays, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer, LGBTQ+ community could best be described as his private ...

The Ashanti region recorded 783 new cases of Alpha and Delta variant of COVID-19 between 19th -25 July 2021, the regional health directorate has said. Eighty-five schools including Basic, Senior High, and a University have been infected. 365 students have so far contracted the virus with 254 recoveries while 111 students are still undergoing treatment. Currently, 25 schools still have ...

The National Coordinator of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP), Dr. Mrs. Gertrude Quashigah has said that the Government is committed to providing nutritiously balanced meal for pupils benefiting from the feeding programme. She said, provision of nutritious meal is essential and remains the topmost priority of GSFP and the Government of Ghana. She indicated that good meal does not ...

Ghana’s public debt stock has risen to GHS332.4. The debt, which was GHS304.6 billion as of the end of the first quarter in 2021, shot up by GHS30 billion in April and May, according to data released by the Bank of Ghana. This translates into a debt-to-Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ratio of 76.6%. It is marginally higher than the debt-to-GDP ...

This year’s Pan-African Historical Theatre Festival (PANAFEST) and Emancipation Day celebration which seek to promote Ghana as the gateway to Africa will take place between July 26 and August 1. The event being organised by Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) in partnership with PANAFEST Foundation is on the theme, “Securing the African family: Our health, our wealth, our soul,” with the ...

Fellow Ghanaians, good evening. I have not come into your homes for some time, because I had hoped that the next time I did so, I would come to announce that we were ready to lift the restrictions and protocols, and get our lives and economy back to normal. Alas, that is not the case, so it has become necessary ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has announced that his government is committing some $25 million to the establishment of a National Vaccine Institute, as part of measures to shore up the country’s preparedness for vaccine production in cases such as the current festering COVID-19 pandemic. In his 26th address to the nation on the virus on Sunday, 25 July 2021, Mr Akufo-Addo ...

President Akufo-Addo has announced a ban on post-funeral receptions across the country in the wake of a third wave of COVID19 in Ghana. According to the President, all funerals must also be held in open spaces and there must be the observance of the one (1) metre social distancing rule by sympathisers. Delivering his update number 26 since the outbreak ...

Active cases of COVID-19 in Ghana is surging at a faster pace currently standing over four thousand, President Akufo-Addo has disclosed. According to the President, a total of one million, three hundred and ninety-four thousand, five hundred and forty (1,394,540) tests have been conducted, out of which one hundred and one thousand, one hundred and seventy (101,170) persons have been ...