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  Government has released GH¢44 million to contain the spread of bird flu across the country.  This was disclosed by the Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Akoto Afriyie.  This comes on the back of reported cases of bird flu across the country. According to the Agric Ministry, the outbreak, which occurred in seven out of the sixteen regions affected over 700,000 birds. The Minister for Food and Agriculture, at a press briefing in Accra, announced some major interventions, including the allocation of money to curb the spread of bird flu. “It will be recalled that government granted approval for the immediate recruitment and deployment of an initial 550 veterinary professionals out of a total 1,100 professionals throughout the country. The intervention also includes approval for the release of an emergency budget support of approximately GH¢44 million to the ministry. This is for the implementation of an action plan involving some key activities for combating the bird flu. Thes

  Tax Analyst, Francis Timore Boi has bemoaned the trend of tax policy inconsistencies from the government. According to him, the regular announcement of tax policies followed by a withdrawal of same isn’t good for the government. Since 2017 till date the government has made major U-turns in connection with some key policy proposals, including the mandatory towing levy, the luxury vehicle levy, the benchmark values discount policy, among others. Currently, government is embarking on a sensitization campaign on the controversial E-Levy after major pushback from different quarters. In an interview with   Citi Business News  on the best way forward, Francis Timore Boi charged government to do comprehensive engagement with all relevant stakeholders on future policies. “The problem I have is the policy inconsistencies. For example, we have the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement and the Headquarters being in Ghana. Our aim is to produce and export under the program. If we thought

  Communications and Digitalization Minister, Ursula Owusu Ekuful believes the 1.75 percent tax on electronic financial transactions, also known as the E-Levy when compared to other taxes introduced in Ghana, is the lowest so far. She made this claim during the maiden edition of government’s town hall meeting on E-Levy held on Thursday, January 27th at Koforidua in the Eastern Region. The townhall meeting, according to government is part of measures to engage the public and bring them to speed on the need to implement the policy, ahead of the relaying of the controversial 1.75 percent Electronic Transfer Levy in Parliament. Speaking at the government’s town hall meeting in Koforidua, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful also charged Ghanaians to embrace the E-levy as it holds the key to solving the country’s unemployment and infrastructural problems. “In 2008 the government of president Kufour introduced the communications services tax in August of that year. And it became another source of income for

  A man believed to be in his 40s lost his life on the Hohoe-Kadjebi road, while others have sustained various degree of injuries after being involved in an accident. The accident which occurred on Saturday afternoon between Bowuri and Akpafu, according to sources, was as a result of the car developing a flat tyre leading to the driver losing control of the urvan bus which was transporting passengers including students from the Bueman Senior High School in the Oti Region. Citi News  sources indicated that the vehicle somersaulted several times and landed upside down, killing the man on the spot. Some injured persons are currently on admission at the Hohoe Municipal Hospital, while others have been treated and discharged.The 30-kilometre stretch of the Eastern Corridor road project from Hohoe to Jasikan is progressing steadily but has become prone to vehicular accidents.

The government is expecting Mobile Money transactions to drop by about 24 percent after the introduction of the Electronic Transfer Levy, a deputy Finance Minister, John Kumah, has said. Speaking on  The Big Issue , Mr. Kumah said the government also had a plan to boost education on the controversial e-levy. “The research we did also told us that there will be about 24 percent attrition rate in the three months to six months that we will introduce it.” “The research same told us what should be done to bring back these people after a while, and we have all these things in place,” Mr. Kumah said. “It is a matter of engagement and letting people understand that, don’t avoid it. It is your pride of place as a Ghanaian to know that your contribution is helping to build your country.” Mr. Kumah also said the government is “more than confident” that the level of attrition rate “will not lead to job losses.” The government has proposed a new 1.5 percent rate for the levy, which was earlier peg

A student of the University of Ghana has reportedly drowned following an unsuccessful attempt to swim in the university’s swimming pool. According to  Radio Univers , the university’s radio station, the incident occurred on Saturday, January 29, 2022. Radio Univers reported that the deceased was a male student at level 100 whose name is yet to be established. “The student, whose name is yet to be disclosed, drowned after he attempted to swim at a depth of 21 feet in the pool this afternoon,” Radio Univers reported on its website. An eyewitness who spoke to the campus radio said: “…the guy went to the 21ft and was asked to go back the first time…not knowing, he went there again and the next thing they heard was that he had drowned”. In a video making rounds on social media, some persons, believed to be students of the university, were seen trying to retrieve the body of the supposed drowned student from the pool. Meanwhile, management of the University of Ghana is yet to comment on the

  The never-ending   Abena Korkor  saga has taken a new turn as the embattled mental health advocate has threatened the drop of a new list. Since she released her first ever list, Abena Korkor has been causing health issues for married men all over Ghana by always threatening to drop new lists. The sexy and voluptuous Korkor claims  many famous married men in Ghana have slept with her  and her list has become an almost annual ritual. Recently, Korkor has been behaving herself as her mental health issues have subsided. Unfortunately, it appears we have another relapse on our hands. Korkor has jumped on Instagram tonight and warned that any famous married man who has slept with her before should call the wife and apologise. Abena has threatened to update her list and thus is a giving an advance warning to anyone who’s slept with her. “If you are a married man and you have slept with me before judgement day is here. Confess and apologize to your wife so that when I release the updated and

  Mr Albert Kan-Dapaah has urged Ghanaians to embrace the E-levy proposal in the 2022 budget statement in order to help the government generate revenue for national development. Speaking at a meeting with staff of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Mr Kan-Dpaah who is a chartered accountant by profession, noted that accepting the E-levy will be one of the sacrifices Ghanaians can make to ensure the government is able to revive the economy and a lso provide the much-needed public goods and services. “The extend to which the government can tackle the socio economic problems of the country very much depends on the revenues at its disposal. “Here in Ghana, the E-levy idea continues to divide opinions yet, these are but a few of the sacrifices that the citizenry must, in my opinion, be ready to make to support the government’s activity towards reviving the economy and providing much-needed public goods and public services,” he said. Parliament passed the appropriations bill for the 2022 bud

 Five (5) people have been shot dead by the police while two others on the run after they were contracted by unknown people to assonates Gomoa Fetteh Chief yesternight. 7 people with guns in a taxi with the registration number GG 3427-21 want to Gomoa Fetteh Town to assonate the chief Nana Abor Atta ii but police laid Ambushed in the area. Upon reaching  Gomoa Fetteh  Cemetery, police officers with AK47 fired them leading five dead . Obaatanpa news speaking with Nana  Abor Atta ii chief of Gomoa Fe tteh who escaped death has expressed shock over the occurrence .  The  central East Regional police command is yet to comment about the incident.  

US President Joe Biden has said the government will do everything it possibly can to help central areas of the country devastated by tornadoes. Mr Biden has signed a Federal Emergency Disaster Declaration, releasing funds for Kentucky, the worst affected state. He said the storms were among the largest in US history. More than 70 people died in Kentucky in Friday night's storms, including dozens in a candle factory, and the death toll is expected to rise above 100. Emergency teams are searching through the rubble of the factory, in the town of Mayfield, which was hit directly. More than 40 people have been rescued out of some 110 in the factory but Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said it would be a miracle if anyone else was found alive. BBC North America correspondent Peter Bowes says the conditions facing the authorities are hugely challenging, with the police station in Mayfield destroyed and firefighters' equipment damaged. Tens of thousands of people in the state are also w

  The Minister of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), has called on farmers and Ghanaians as a whole to embrace the government’s proposed electronic levy (e-levy) which was announced in the 2022 budget statement by the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, last month. According to Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, the Akufo-Addo administration was working assiduously to raise money to support farmers in the country, and that the e-levy would help in that regard. The Finance Minister who introduced the levy in the 2022 budget told Parliament a huge chunk of the proceeds will support entrepreneurship. The Agric Minister said the National Democratic Congress’ entrenched position on the levy is very worrying. Dr. Afriyie Akoto made the assertion when he visited one of the government’s built warehouses at Gambaga in the North East Region on his first-day visit to the region as part of his 13-day tour of the northern sector. “There are two markets in Ghana; the subsidized fertilizer market, which is the plantin

Nigerian superstar, Davido has moved to donate over N250 million ($600,000) to charity.  This amount was garnered after the Afrobeat singer jovially invited his friends and industry mates to send him money for his birthday celebration.  On Thursday, November 18, the ‘La La’ singer broke the internet as musicians sent huge sums of money from all over the continent to celebrate him.  Due to this, the award-winning musician amassed over N200 million in barely two days as he intermittently shared screenshots of each transaction.  However, he seems to have made changes to the motive for the re quest  In a post on Twitter, Davido announced his decision use the sum to alleviate the plight of orphans in Nigeria.  He explained that additionally, he “will be making a personal donation of N50,000,000 bringing the total amount to N250,000,000.” “My goal is to do this fundraising every year to celebrate my birthday and give back to people in need,” he added.

An associate professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Ghana, Prof. Festus Ebo Turkson is suggesting that the size of Parliament should be reduced to cut down on government expenditure.  According to him, the size of Ghana’s economy and the population does not merit the huge number of parliamentarians it has. Speaking on   The big issue   on Saturday, Prof. Ebo Turkson said proposals for the size of Parliament to be increased by 13 more seats does not make governance or economic sense especially given the inadequate revenue of the country.“The time has come when we need to have a discussion on whether our parliamentary system is not having an overbearing impact on our expenditures as well. I think that a Ghana with the size of our economy and population shouldn’t have more than 150 members of Parliament, especially when we have a local government system right from the assembly member to the assembly that is already in charge of the grassroots governance,” he said.He

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  An exclusive interview @Adane Best had today on the Kwanso te sen drive on obaatanpa radio this afternoon