President John Dramani Mahama has defended his government’s decision
of squeezing over $3 million from the Bank of Ghana and physically
transporting it to the Black Stars in Brazil last Wednesday via a
chartered flight.
The Ministry of Finance has stated Moody’s
negative rating of Ghana's economy was based on the same short-term
challenges which the government had identified and was addressing.
Citi Business News has gathered that
government has directed the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to suspend the
implementation of the 17.5 percent Value Added Tax (VAT) charges on
non-core financial services.
Financial Analyst, Sydney
Casely-Hayford has criticized the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the
Bulk Oil Distribution Companies (BDCs) for thanking the President for
ordering the release of strategic fuel reserves.
A television station in Uganda has
been banned from covering presidential events after it broadcast images
which it said showed President Yoweri Museveni snoozing in parliament.
We spend so much time praising the greats at World Cups, but it only
seems fair to cast our eyes upon those who underwhelmed, disappointed,
didn’t live up to expectations or just plain stunk. Without further ado,
your squad of ne’er-do-wells.
The Minority New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Parliament has accused the
John Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration of
reckless and profligate spending in “this era of economic crisis.”
THE TRIAL of Bishop Daniel Obinim,
founder of Godsway International Ministry and his two associate pastors,
Kingsley Baah and Kofi Akwetey by an Accra High Court,
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, on Saturday 7th June 2014, cut the sod for
the commencement of construction works on the Kumasi City Mall at
Asokwa, a suburb of Kumasi.