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GACL cites McDan’s private jet business for infractions at KIA. The Ghana Airport Company Limited (GACL) has accused McDan Aviation of breaching the laid down procedure after procuring its license to operate in 2019. It raised concerns in a letter last Friday, the scheduled date for the McDan Group of Companies’ private jet service launch at the Terminal 1 of the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) in Accra. Despite a GACL directive to call off the event, the company went ahead to hold the ceremony last Friday. It was, however, boycotted by GACL leadership. Other government officials who were absent at the outdooring of what Daniel McKorley described as a feat in the country’s aviation sector include Transport Minister, Kwaku Ofori Asiamah. The airport authorities said the McDan Group undertook some activities at the Airport without approval. Some of which include the commencement of the construction of the private jet terminal without a Plan of Construction Operation approval. Accordin

Suhum MP Supports Commercial Drivers with 36 Vehicles to Create Job. The Member of Parliament (MP) for Suhum Constituency in the Eastern Region, Hon. Kwadwo Asante Oboafo has handed over thirty six (36) different kinds of vehicles to some commercial drivers in his constituency in aid of job creation in the transport business sector within the constituency. The vehicles ranges from 3 Hyundai, 12 seater salon buses and 33 taxi cabs were presented to the drivers by the MP with the purposes of 'work and pay' agreement. Hon Kwadwo Asante explained that the presentation of the vehicles is in fulfilment of his 2020 campaign promises that he will help anyone within his Constituency who is serious and ready to work either in the transport business. tailoring and dressmaking, hairdressing, petty businesses and traders to help improve their standard of living. Hon. Kwadwo Asante advised the drivers in general especially those who received the vehicles to be law abiding to obey all rules a

Akufo-Addo commended for extending PSRL to end of January 2022. Hon. Paul Twum Barimah  President Nana Akufo-Addo has been commended for directing the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) to extend  the removal of the Price Stabilisation and Recovery Levies (PRSL) on petrol, diesel, and Liquefied Petroleum Gas to the end of January 2022. The directive, Paul Apraku Twum Barimah, Member of Parliament for Dormaa East, says, will keep prices of petroleum products in the country stable and affordable for the population. The move, the energy professional also said will keep prices of commodities like cement, iron rods and building materials stable as the economy moves towards consistent growth. The Energy Sector Levies Act 2015 (Act 899) allows the use of the PSRL to stabilize prices of petroleum for consumers. The suspended PSRL is 16 pesewas per litre on petrol, 14 pesewas pesewas per litre on diesel, and 14 pesewas per kilogram on LPG. Prices of crude oil and refined petroleum products saw

Some Ghanaians want deadline for SIM card re-registration extended. Some customers of telecommunication networks operating in the country are calling on the government to extend the period for the SIM card re-registration exercise. Various centres of the telecommunication companies have witnessed long queues as customers are racing against time to link their Ghana cards to their SIM cards. This is because the government has set March 31, 2022, as the deadline for the re-registration. Some Ghanaians in a Citi News interview indicated that an extension would help ease tensions at the various re-registration centres. They also complained about the amount of time used in registering a person. “A lot of people have just been rushing here, but I think if there are a lot of people who do the registration, it will help because they spend almost 45 minutes to one hour on one person,” one of the aggrieved customers said. “Just look at the number of people who have massed up, and this is making t

MTN GHANA BLISS OUT MOTHER'S WHO DELIVERED NEW BORN BABIES ON CHRISTMAS DAY WITH HAMPERS.  MTN Ghana as part of its effort to support mother's in the country has presented 45 hampers to babies born on Christmas Day at three hospitals in the Bono and Ahafo Regions. In addition, each of the hospitals, Hwediem St. Elizabeth Hospital in the Asutifi South District of Ahafo Region, Kwatire Government Hospital in the Sunyani West and Sunyani Regional Hospital received 1,000 credit air time. Mr. Kweku Kwateng, the MTN team leader of Bono and Ahafo Regions in an interview said the campany has distributed 500 hampers worth Ghc150,000 nationwide. He said the presentation forms part of their cooperate social responsibility to the society and doing this is to show love not only to their  customers but also to put smiles on the faces of the mothers who delivered their babies on Christmas day. Mrs. Gladys Bediako the Nursing Manager of St. Elizabeth Hospital at Hwediem in an interview commend

Culture of Saving in Ghana is weak - President of Bechem Utd. The president of Bechem United Football Club and Founder of New Bechem United Credit Union at Bechem in the Tano South Municipal of the Ahafo Region, Mr, Kingsley Owusu Achau puparly know in sports as Mr Agama has revealed that, the culture of Saving in the country is very weak especially in the deprived communities. According to him, a lot of people are struggling because they lack the attitude of savings even when they are in the peak of their businesses and urged Ghanaians to improve the culture of savings in the country especially those in Bechem and it enviorns. He made this statement during the launching of Bechem United Credit Union in Bechem as part of his social corporate responsibility to support the government to reduce the unemployment rate among the youth in the area. He disclosed that, he has made all the necessary arrangements in place to reward farmers in the Tano South Municipality to improve their daily bus

CenBA Africa Business Excellence Awards 21: Ayertey Alignment Services Adjudged the Best Alignment Center in Ashanti Region. Ayertey Alignment Services was over the weekend has been adjudged the best Alignment Service Center in the Ashanti Region through an award scheme initiative and organized by the CenBa African Business Excellence Awards.  The awards which was purposely created to rewards the hard working SMEs in the country to motivate them to do more.  CenBa Graduate Institute is an entrepreneurship and management training center committed to offering innovative business solutions to SMEs in Ghana to award the well deserved small and medium scale enterprises.. CenBa Graduate Institute assist businesses through training, development, coaching and mentoring, boot camps, business incubation center and seminars to offer them the opportunities to enable them acquire the necessary skills for their business development. The institute set up the business award scheme (CenBA Africa Busine

Goil Reduces Fuel by 15p after Akufo-Addo’s Directive. The Ghana Oil Company (GOIL) has reduced fuel by 15 pesewas after a directive from President Akufo-Addo following a meeting with driver unions on Monday, December 6. The reduction took effect Tuesday morning with a litre of fuel at Goil now selling at 6 cedis 70 pesewas. The reduction came after a crunch meeting with driver unions who declared a sit-down strike Monday over fuel prices.   It is, however, not known how long the reduction will be in effect.   Some commercial drivers in parts of Accra Monday morning began a sit-down strike in protest against numerous levies and taxes imposed on petroleum products by the government, resulting in an increase in fuel prices. At Gbawe and Mallam in the Weija-Gbawe Municipality, there were many commuters stranded along the shoulders of the road while those who had already boarded commercial vehicles were forced to disembark. Some GPRTU station officers blocked roads with car tyres and other

CREAT YOUR OWN JOBS TO BECOME ENTREPRENEURS- MR VICTOR ATSU ADVISED YOUTH. Mr Victor Atsu Occansey, the CEO of Best Ophar Construction Firm has urged the Ghanaian Youth to make an effort to create their own jobs to become entrepreneurs rather than to depend on government for employment opportunities. Mr Victor Atsu Occansey, emphasised that, ''you should not think of obtaining salary only, but rather think of becoming enterpreneurs to open businesses for other to be employed." He indicate that, ''to obtain your own business is more sustainable than depending on government for employment where salary is what sustains your living." Speaking in an exclusive interview with Afia Frema, Mr Atsu said, ''globally, the rich people are are mostly private individuals who are entrepreneurs and such people are not from the public sector. According to him, government alone cannot absorb the unemployment situation in the country hence, this is the time for the unempl

2022 Budget: Gov’t scraps road toll booths.  The Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori Atta, has announced the removal of road tolls  booths on all public roads in the country with immediate effect. He made the announcement in Parliament when he was reading the budget for the financial year 2022. According to him, the operations of the toll booth on the public roads serves as a “unhealthy market centres” for some traders, a situation which contributes to heavy vehicular traffic, leading to delays and consequently low productivity. He added “the congestion generated at the tolling points besides resting, creating these inconveniences also leads to pollution in and around the vicinities.” To address the challenges, Government has abolished all tolls on public roads and bridges. “Over the years, the tolling points have become unhealthy market centres, led to heavy traffic on our roads, lengthened travel time from one place to another, and impacted negatively on productivity. “The congestion gen

 1D1F: PRESIDENT AKUFO-ADDO INSPECTS WORK ON 95% COMPLETE CENTRAL OIL MILLS. The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has inspected work at the Central Oil Mills Limited, a wholly Ghanaian owned agro-processing company located at Jukwa Mfuom/Asamanso in the Hemang Lower Denkyira District of Central Region. The company which is only going to be specialised in oil palm development and processing that will be operating under Government’s 1-District-1-Factory initiative with support from Exim Bank.   President Akufo-Addo visited the factory, on Tuesday, 19th October 2020 as part of his day 2 of his 2-day tour of the Central Region to access the development of the factory.   The company which was established in 2010 but was in distressed got support from the Ministry of Trade and Industry through an organisational audit which was conducted by a team of technical consultants who recommended the company to the Ghana EXIM Bank for support under the One District One Factory (

MENZGOLD Issues Statement on the Roadmap of Resettlement of Funds to It's Affected Customers.  The below is the copies of the statement issued on 7th October, 2021.

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp Stopped Working Today Monday 4th October, 2021.   WhatsApp ,   Instagram   and   Facebook   have all gone down in a major outage. The three apps – which are owned by Facebook and run on shared infrastructure – all completely stopped working shortly before 5pm (12pm EST). Other products that are part of the same family of apps, such as Facebook Workplace, also stopped working. Visitors to the Facebook website simply saw an error page or a message that their browser could not connect. The WhatsApp and Instagram apps continued to work, but did not show new content, including any messages sent or received during the problems. Facebook’s outages happen relatively rarely but tend to be vast in their impact, not least because they affect three of the world’s biggest apps. The company is often cryptic about the causes of any issues, and does not tend to explain them even after they are fixed. In 2019, for instance, it suffered its biggest outage in years – and

Customs Division of GRA has Relieved Users of Uncustomed Vehicles a 3 Months of Amenisty which will start from 1st Oct-31st Dec, 2021, making sure the general public will take advantage of this notice have released a statement ahead of time.   This three 3 month amnesty waives all penalties that would have been incurred should such vehicles impounded by the Customs Division.  Read the statement released below. 

THE BE HIVE PARTNERS WITH WIKIPEDIA TO DOCUMENT AND PROMOTE THE BONO EAST REGION. The BE Hive, a Digital Foundation Africa collaborative innovation hub in the Bono East, Ahafo and Savannah Regions of Ghana have partnered with Wikipedia through its West African representative, Open Foundation West Africa to set a Bono East Wiki chapter. The hub is primarily set UP to educate and train the youth in the region to help in documenting and projecting the Bono East Region to the world on its potentials from agriculture to tourism etc. During the launch of the hub in Techiman the Bono East Capital, Mrs. Ruby D. Brown the lead facilitator from the Open Foundation West Africa charged the empowered youth to write content that will not only promote investment in the region but also document the rich and history of the Region. The 2-day training saw about 30 youth being trained and equipped with the necessary tools to help in their work for the region and beyond as they are now part of the Wikipedi

OVER 200 PIGS KILLED BY AFRICAN SWINE FEVER IN JAMAN NORTH, FARMERS CRY FOR SUPPORT. The veterinary Office of the Jaman North District Agric Directorate have recently discovered an outbreak of African Swine Fever which has attack several pigs and killed over 200 pigs within a week in some seven (7) different farms. The virus according to the veterinary officer was first detected and confirmed at Jankufa, a community in the Jaman North district.  Speaking to the affected farmers, they stated that, the rate at which the pigs are dying is extremely bad hence the government and the Jaman North District Assembly should support them. They stressed on how they have invested and spent on their pig farms since it's inception and how the African Swine Fever has affected their investment is beyond their strength hence the government should come to their aid.  They made this appeal at a sensitization program organized by the Jaman North Agric Directorate together with the veterinary officers f

You want to be an entrepreneur, but do you have what it takes? 5 basic skills you must have. It is important that you reflect on what skills you have and which ones you need to continue developing in order to start your business. If before, entrepreneurship required emotional strength and the firm decision to do so, during the pandemic , for many it became a priority, awakening the entrepreneurial spirit that some carry inside and pushing that dream of having a profitable business of their own. To this we must add the digital reality in which we live, where the strengths that entrepreneurs require are not limited only to having an attractive product or service, or to knowing perfectly the market and what you sell; It has to do more with the skills to carry out digital businesses, lead teams, projects, processes, among others. Faced with this new panorama, which is increasingly digital, entrepreneurs have sought to adapt and innovate to keep their businesses afloat, and although this cr

AMBASSADOR FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE FOUNDATION-GHANA HAS AWARD THE CEO OF AYERTEY ALIGNMENT SERVICES. 

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