The Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA) has warned it will resist attempts by Chinese Broadcasting company StarTimes to takeover the broadcasting space in Ghana through its arrangement with government. The Chinese company has secured a deal with government that will see it extend satellite TV to over 300 villages across …

Centre for National Affairs (CNA), a pressure group, has petitioned the Office of the Special Prosecutor to initiate criminal investigations into what it claims to be suspected illegal payments at the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) to the previous Mahama administration. CAN, in a letter signed by …

The Controller and Accountant General, Mr Eugene Asante Ofosuhene, has allayed the fears of the public, especially the business community, that the introduction of the seven per cent withholding Value Added Tax (VAT) is a new tax regime. Rather, he said, it was an innovation within the current tax regime …

Government has been called to stop giving allowances to both nurses and teacher trainees and invest such funds in Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET). Professor Stephen Adei, Former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), said “it is time to put the required emphasis on …

Deputy Minister for Monitoring and Evaluation, William Kusi Sabi, has rejected calls for the government to downsize its ministers, stating each of the 110 ministers is useful in the Akufo-Addo administration. Though he said it is not within his power to decide on the number of ministers to constitute the …