2015

The National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA) says, the transfer of workers’ tier-two pension funds held in a temporary account at the Bank of Ghana (BOG) to the appointed fund managers, has started. Mr. Kofi Anokye Owusu-Darko, the…

Mr Abdallah Ali-Nakyea, Managing Consultant for WTS Ghana Tax Legal Consulting, has called on government to extend the tax identification numbers to other sectors of the economy to facilitate the identification of tax payers. He said the…

All the Municipal and District Assemblies in the Upper East Region, except one, have failed to appoint the required 30 per cent quota of women to the Assemblies. Out of the 13 assemblies in the Region, only the Bongo District Assembly…

The Ghana Office of the Consumer Unity and Trust Society International (CUTS) has appealed to Government and the Ministry of Trade and Industry to make the passage of the Competition Policy Bill a legislative agenda for 2016. It said…

The Scandinavia-based Pharmacists without Borders, and two bodies in Ghana, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), to promote the safe use of medicines in local communities. The MoU was borne out of a four-day brainstorming…

The National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA) has started a compulsory enrollment of employers without registered 2nd Tier Occupational schemes. NPRA has therefore assigned corporate trustees to all employers who failed to enroll…

News in some sections of the Ghanaian media that Ghana has been found to be the second most corrupt country in Africa in a report by Transparency International, (TI), is incorrect. An official of the international anti-corruption…

The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the Speaker of Parliament, Mr Edward Doe Adjaho to take the Oath of the President anytime he acts in that capacity. The Court in a unanimous decision declared that the Speaker violated the…

President John Dramani Mahama says Ghanaians must recognize hard work, dedication and service by celebrating the achievements of citizens who excel in their fields of endeavour while they still lived. He said he was unhappy with the…

Credit ratings agency, Moody’s says the stable outlook and Baa2 rating of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) is supported by its strengthening equity base and evidence of shareholder support. This is despite the low median…