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Ghana U-20 star, Abdul Fatawu Issahaku, has presented the “Best Player of Tournament” award he won at the just ended U-20 Africa Cup of Nations to Minority Leader of Ghana’s Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu. The 16-year-old midfielder was singled out as the tournament’s poster boy with his cultured left foot, soccer IQ and dexterity. Fatawu, who plays for Tamale-based lower division ...

Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and caretaker Minister for Finance, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, has said that the government lost revenues totaling GHC13.6billion due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Delivering the Budget and Economic Policy to Parliament on Friday, the MP for Suame said “IMF data indicate that the global economy is expected to grow at 5.5%. This reflects an expected positive turnaround. ...

Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and caretaker Minister for Finance, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, has said that government’s Coronavirus Alleviation and Revitalization of Enterprise Support (CARES) initiative is a singular and remarkable financial investment in the Ghanaian economy by a sitting government. Presenting the 2021 budget statement and economic policy on the floor of Parliament on Friday, March 12, 2021, Mr. Osei ...

Government is introducing a Covid-19 Health Levy of 1% on Vat, Flat Rate Scheme (VFRS) and a 1% on National Health Insurance Levy (NHIL) as part of revenue measures to help the economy recover. Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Majority leader Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu who disclosed this during the 2021 Budget Statement in Accra on Friday, March 12, 2021, ...

Government has announced the suspension of vehicle income tax for beneficiaries of commercial public transport popularly called Trotros and taxis to reduce the cost of transportation under its tax relief program. Small businesses will also enjoy the suspension of income tax stamp payments. This was contained in the 2021 Budget statement read in Parliament by the Minister for Parliamentary affairs ...

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 ...