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Ghana loses 200 million dollars of tax revenue to smuggling of petroleum products and other nefarious activities in the petroleum sector every year. Chief Executive of the National Petroleum Authority Alhassan Tampuli who described these nefarious activities as “lucrative”, mentioned Takoradi port, Tema main Port, Prampram, Aflao and the eastern coastline as the unapproved offshore routes for the smuggling. “These nefarious activities of the petroleum service providers and some that are not even service providers, led to the country losing colossal 200 million dollars per annum of tax revenue,” he said. Speaking at the at this year’s Ghana international petroleum…

Ghana loses 200 million dollars of tax revenue to smuggling of petroleum products and other nefarious activities in the petroleum sector every year. Chief Executive of the National Petroleum Authority Alhassan Tampuli who described these nefarious activities as “lucrative”, mentioned Takoradi port, Tema main Port, Prampram, Aflao and the eastern coastline as the unapproved offshore routes for the smuggling. “These nefarious activities of the petroleum service providers and some that are not even service providers, led to the country losing colossal 200 million dollars per annum of tax revenue,” he said. Speaking at the at this year’s Ghana international petroleum…

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has said that the government would do due diligence in the posting of nurses to work abroad, if agreement with partner countries is officially cemented. “We would ensure that only the best and most experienced of Ghanaian nurses are sent outside as expatriates for healthcare services,” Mr. Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, the Health Minister noted. The government recently announced of future plans to export Ghanaian nurses abroad, arguing that the move was in tandem with the vision to create more job opportunities for the health professionals in foreign countries. Mr. Agyemang-Manu, who was addressing staff and students…

An app that harnesses the unused processing power of idling mobile phones has been used to identify anti-cancer molecules in a range of foods. The research identified carrots, celery and oranges as having the highest number of cancer-fighting molecules. The DreamLab app, which has now been downloaded 83,000 times, works while users sleep and has so far performed more than 10 million calculations. One expert said there was a “long road ahead” to develop treatments. The app uses an algorithm to measure the properties of more than 8,000 everyday foods against a comprehensive database, looking for molecules that have successfully…

Health experts are warning of food poisoning at the Agbogbloshie market in Accra due to toxic emissions from burning of electronic waste material in the area. The situation is even more alarming as most of the food items consumed by the people of Accra come from the Agbogloshie, which has now become the hub and dumping site for the about 50 million of electronic waste generated annually globally. Electronic waste materials as well as car tyres are daily deposited at a section of the Agbogbloshie market for burning by scrap dealers whose ultimate aim is to retrieve the copper in…

Health experts are warning of food poisoning at the Agbogbloshie market in Accra due to toxic emissions from burning of electronic waste material in the area. The situation is even more alarming as most of the food items consumed by the people of Accra come from the Agbogloshie, which has now become the hub and dumping site for the about 50 million of electronic waste generated annually globally. Electronic waste materials as well as car tyres are daily deposited at a section of the Agbogbloshie market for burning by scrap dealers whose ultimate aim is to retrieve the copper in…

The Ghana Deaf Football Association has honoured former President Jerry John Rawlings with a football match on the occasion of his 72nd birthday. The Association also presented him with a plaque congratulating him for his deeds of kindness towards people with disability, especially the deaf. The Deaf Football Association, which called on the former President last week Wednesday, said their visit was to share in the joy of the former President’s birthday and to present the citation in appreciation of all the support he had given the Association over the years. The match in honour of the former President was…

The US says it wants to create an international military coalition to safeguard waters around Iran and Yemen. Marine Gen Joseph Dunford, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he wanted to “ensure freedom of navigation” in the region, which provides essential trade routes. The US has blamed Iran for attacks on oil tankers in May and June. Gen Dunford said the US was talking to a number of countries with the “political will” to support the plans. The US would provide “command and control” ships, leading surveillance efforts, he said. However, the aim would be for other…

Government has denied any knowledge of the alleged sale of one of the digital channels of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), but the state broadcaster is insisting government has been duly informed about it. The 2018 Auditor’s General implicated GBC in a deal which saw the state broadcaster give up one of its channels, GTV Govern, to a privately-owned company to manage. While the workers claimed the channel had been sold, GBC management rejected that, and claimed the channel has been given to the private company to operate a local television station for a period in a bid to rake…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says his government for the last two and a half years to correct what he termed the considerable disarray left by the John Mahama government. “The fiscal deficit, which stood at 9.3% in 2016, has been brought down to 3.9% at the end of 2018. Our actions have resulted in the rapid growth of Ghana’s economy, which, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), this year, will be the fastest growing economy in the world at a projected 8.8% (up from 3.6% in 2016),” he stated Speaking at the France-Ghana Business Forum on July 9,…