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There has been a major increase in imports in Ghana three months after the government reduced import duties, Ghana Union of Traders’ Association (GUTA) has said. The government in April slashed the benchmark value for imports by 50 per cent, while the benchmark value for vehicles was also reduced by 30 per cent. Some importers including spare parts dealers hailed ...

Security sources in Tema have concluded that the occupants of a Toyota Corolla, who shot the dispatch rider of former president Flt-Lt Jerry John Rawlings, were the same people who robbed the Tema Motorway Roundabout Shell Station. The outrider, Sgt Atsu Sekeh of the Central Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) in Accra, who is assigned to the former president, ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo’s avowed fight against corruption has been dented by his appointment of a man previously accused of corruption as a board chair “It is disappointing”, an anti-corruption campaigner, Vitus Azeem, weighed in on the appointment of Kwame Owusu as Board chair of the Ghana Revenue Authority. Kwame Owusu, who was Director-General of the Ghana Maritime Authority in 2017 ...

The families of the three girls kidnapped in Takoradi in 2018 have accused the Ghana Police Service and other security agencies of neglecting the victims almost a year after the incident. The aggrieved families have wondered what is causing the delay in reuniting the Ghanaian girls with their families. At a press conference on Monday, 15 July 2018, the families ...

Ex-President John Dramani Mahama has made a U-turn and gone to register for the Ghana Card. His wife, Lordina, has also been issued with the card. The Mahamas were enrolled on the National Identity Register last Tuesday as other members of the ex-president’s household and office staff members also registered and were issued with the Ghana Card at his East ...

A video of how a young boy was gruesomely murdered on the orders of the Chief of Mamponteng-Hemang in the Ashanti Region has gone viral. Kasapafmonline.com has gathered that the sacrifice of the boy was to appease the gods of the town, for which reason is yet to be established. In the video, the horrified inhabitants are heard pleading “the ...

A young man, 25, has confessed to having sex with his brother’s daughter, age 16. The man (name withheld), told Kwabena Agyapong on Frontline on Rainbow Radio 87.5Fm that he was forced to have sex with the niece because the girl forced him to it. He indicated that the minor was showing sexual gestures anytime she comes into his room. ...

The Attorney General’s Department has taken further steps to sell the mansions of embattled National Democratic Congress (NDC) financier, Alfred Agbesi Woyome, to defray the GH¢51.2 million he fraudulently received as judgement debt. The Office of the Attorney General on Friday filed a motion at the Supreme Court for a determination of the reserved price for three of his residential ...

The Presiding Bishop of the International Godsway Church, Bishop Daniel Obinim, has sued the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) over what he calls an unlawful placement of lien on his Fidelity Bank account by the GRA due to non payment of rent taxes owed the State over a block of twenty-one units of shop situated at Tema as well as the ...

An Accra High Court has rescinded the bail granted to Gregory Afoko, the prime suspect in the murder of the late Upper East Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Adams Mahama. This follows an application by the office of the Attorney General to reverse the bail granted him by another High Court in March this year. An Accra ...