The telecommunication companies in Ghana have been ordered to cease the instant deduction of the Communications Service Tax also known as Talk Tax. “To minimize the negative impact of the current mode of deduction of the CST, the Ministry of Communications hereby directs the immediate implementation of the following measure: CST should be treated the…

Eliud Kipchoge has become the first athlete to run a marathon in under two hours, beating the mark by 20 seconds. The Kenyan, 34, covered the 26.2 miles (42.2km) in one hour 59 minutes 40 seconds in the Ineos 1:59 Challenge in Vienna, Austria on Saturday. It will not be recognised as the official marathon…

Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana is not Ghanaian but a Liberian born to a Liberian father known as Kofi Nwia, and Nyaniba, the woman we have been reading in the history books as his mother rather adopted Kwame Nkrumah when he first came to Ghana, A former Gold Coast Politician, Joshua…

A Pakistani court is due to hear an appeal to free a doctor accused of helping the US track down al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. The Peshawar High Court will hear Shakil Afridi’s case on Wednesday, the first time it will be heard in an open court in Pakistan. He was never formally charged for…

Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko has reacted to allegations by embattled Professor, Ransford Edward Gyampo of the University of Ghana, urging him to desist from making preposterous remarks that the BBC Africa Eye exposé is an attempt by some Ghanaians to gag him. The BBC Africa Eye documentary captioned “sex for grades” implicated Prof Gyampo in alleged…

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has on Monday October 7 confirmed it had issued approval licenses to 6 firms to commence operations on the Ghana Inter-bank Forex Market effective October 1, 2019 to December 31, 2020. According to a statement by the central bank, the firms would join other commercial banks that have the approval…

  The government has announced it is going to change power installation at the Jubilee House to solar power in the coming days as part of a bigger national agenda to promote the use of solar energy in the country. Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo who disclosed this at the opening of the 5th Renewable Energy…

Wife of  H.E. Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia; the  Vice President of Ghana, has assured her husband of her undying love for him as he celebrates his 56th birthday Monday, October 7. The loving wife; Samira Bawumia In her birthday message via Twitter, wrote; “We thank Allah for another year of life, good health and favour. I…

    At least 10 protesters have been arrested after the demonstration by law students on Monday ended abruptly. The demonstration, seeking reforms to legal education in Ghana, started peacefully at the main campus of the Ghana School of Law. But on their last-ditch effort to present their petition to the president at the Jubilee…