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The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has suggested that embassies operating in Ghana may soon start demanding digital addresses from Ghanaian visa applicants. Although this is not yet a government policy or a directive from embassies, Dr. Bawumia thinks this could become a reality. Dr. Bawumia made the comments when he was giving the keynote address at the 2nd Stakeholders ...

Tax Identification Number (TIN) will no longer be a prerequisite for the upfront registration of a business, beginning from January 2019, the Registrar-General, Jemimah Oware, has disclosed. She said the provision of a digital address would become the new requirement for the registration of businesses. “This is because the global positioning system (GPS) will indicate to metropolitan, municipal and district ...

Personnel of the Ghana Police Service (GPS) and the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) in the Northern Region on Thursday morning embarked on a route march through some principal streets in the Tamale metropolis. The march, code named “Operation Show of Force”, is part of measures and actions embarked upon by the Regional Security Council (REGSEC) to ensure the smooth implementation ...

Government has decided to auction the gallopers parked for years at the Local Government Institute, Deputy Finance Minister Kwaku Kwarteng has revealed. The move, according to him, was necessitated by the government’s apprehension over the perception the rotting vehicles will send to the tax payer. The vehicles numbering 86 were brought in to be used by District Chief Executives across ...

Teachers of the Colleges of Education Teachers Association of Ghana (CETAG) are asking for the payment of their November salaries before they can take part in any negotiations to call off their three-week strike. The Ministry of Education had placed an embargo on the salaries of the striking CETAG members. The members of CETAG, who declared the strike on October ...

The National Security is investigation reports of a plot to blow up oil fields in the Western Region following agitations over the Ghana-US military Cooperation Agreement. Former Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko in May during a meeting with some oil companies on the sidelines of the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston, Texas, USA claimed some aggrieved political figures in the ...

President Akufo-Addo has said Ghanaians will forever remain indebted to J.B Danquah for his contributions and influence on the country’s history. Speaking at a ceremony to commission the newly built J.B. Danquah Memorial Centre at Kyebi in the Eastern Region, Akufo-Addo said his late maternal uncle’s memory will continue to live on as long as the country Ghana lives. “It ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama says the double track system of the free Senior High School policy is draining parents financially. Describing the double tracking system as “green-gold traffic light”, Mahama observed that parents are under huge pressure to raise additional money to pay for remedial classes for their wards. Over 400,000 students are taking part in the double track ...

Embattled Chief Executive Officer of gold dealership company Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah has questioned why government is whipping up public sentiment against him and tainting his image when all he did was to contribute to the economy of the country. Venting his anger in a post on his Instagram page on Thursday morning he quizzed, “Somewhere in africa: A purported ...

Presidential hopefuls of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) are likely to pay a staggering amount of GHC400,000 as filing fee in order to partake in the contest. Additionally, the hopefuls will have to cough out a reported GHC20,000 to pick their forms to contest in the race scheduled for December 19. The amount will be halved for women and ...