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The Economic Management Team of government is pondering which taxes to abolish and the ones to increase, as it looks to take the shackles off the private sector. Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Maafo, who is also a member of the Economic Management Team of the Akufo-Addo-led administration, speaking at a forum in Accra said: “A number of taxes will be reviewed and we are doing this bearing in mind that we are creating the necessary environment for productivity to go up and for employment to be generated. We should never use tax as a punitive measure. The state needs the…

Many patrons converged at Alliance Francaise on Saturday for the 2nd edition of MMC Live. The night of music, magic and comedy featured rapper and Highgrade Family act Martin Kofi King Arthur popularly known as Kofi Kinaata. Kofi Kinaata performed most of his hit songs including Susuka, Time no dey, Sweetie pie and every body’s favorite Confession. After his performance GhanaWeb spoke to him about his hit song ‘Confession’. It will be recalled that Kofi Kinaata granted an interview where he said people were taking advantage of his song and were using it to get drunk. He was questioned on…

The National Democratic Party (NDP) wants the President to use tomorrow’s State of the Nation Address to state his position on contradictory statements made by two ministers on the use of the Heritage Fund to finance the free senior high school policy. The Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Marfo had suggested that the government will use the Heritage Fund, which is part of the oil proceeds being invested for generation yet unborn, to finance its flagship policy – Free SHS -, but the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta said that is not something the government is looking at. The General Secretary of…

A month-old baby girl has been burnt death in a fire outbreak at the Navrongo Police barracks in the Upper East Region. The mother of the child, a police officer, was attending to nature’s call about 50 metres away from the barracks when their room caught fire at about 3:30pm Sunday Two rooms were affected by the fire which was said to have started from one of the rooms. The fire was fueled by the about 60 per cent plywood which police officers have used to partition their rooms.Unconfirmed reports say it took personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service,…

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has assured Ghanaians his first budget contains a well-thought through policies that will put what he termed Ghana’s ailing economy he inherited back on track. “We are going to fix it. We have outlined a number of prudent policies and measures which are contained in our first budget to be read on the 2nd of March,” he told Ghanaians resident in Banjul on Saturday. President Akufo-Addo said the Ghanaian people reposed confidence in him in the last elections because they believed he had what it takes to turn the dwindling fortunes of the country…

President Akufo-Addo has revealed that he had no difficulty whatsoever in supporting the candidature of Thomas Kwesi Quartey for the position of Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission. According to President Akufo-Addo when his predecessor, former President Mahama, told him about presenting Thomas Kwesi Quartey as Ghana’s candidate for the position, “it was a very easy matter for me, because he was a Ghanaian who had the spirit and competence for the job.” President Akufo-Addo made this known on Thursday, February 16, 2017, when Thomas Kwesi Quartey, now Deputy AU Commission Chairperson, and Ambassador Victor Gbeho called on the…

The Apostle General of the Royalhouse Chapel International, Reverend Sam Korankye Ankrah, has decried the increasing infiltration of the church by charlatans and urged Christians to hold on to the word of God “These days you see all kinds of things and charlatans holding the bible and doing all kinds of things in the name of God.” Rev. Ankrah therefore appealed to the Christians to learn the word of God adding: “If you know the word nobody can take it away from you.” He was speaking at the launch of the Christ Apostolic Church International Centenary celebration held at the…

The youth wing of the New Patriotic Party in the Saboba District of the Northern Region has declared it will not accept any other candidate as the Saboba District Chief Executive than Jawol Abraham. According to the group, the three times failed candidate at the party’s primary has exhibited a sense of unity by refusing to go independent even at a time his supporters felt he could win the parliamentary seat as an independent candidate having lost narrowly to the current member of Parliament, Charles Bintim in the 2015primary. Three names including the Constituency Chairman Bingrim George, Constituency Secretary Bilengang…

File photo[/caption] Residents of New Edubiase in the Adansi South District of the Ashanti Region have hit the streets to demonstrate against the queenmother’s failure to get them a chief for the past three years. According to them, the absence of a chief has stalled development in the area. TV3’s Benjamin Aidoo reported that clad in red, both the old and the young took part in the demonstration. There has been tension in the community over the inability of the kingmakers to select a chief after the demise of Nana Asiamah Guahyia II. The late chief ruled for over 40…