The government earlier this week announced the removal of the Value Added Tax (VAT) on pharmaceutical ingredients in Ghana. Similarly, the VAT on selected finished pharmaceutical products have also been removed. This is to ensure that the cost of medicines in Ghana is reduced, the government said. “Government removes VAT …

Continuing with the use of industry players as hosts of United Showbiz programme, the latest in the seat is Mzbel. The singer is the sit-in host for Nana Ama McBrown who has yet to make an appearance on the show this year. Mzbel will be steering discussions between the three …

15 men vandalized an entire household in an attempt to extort money from the family of a boy alleged to be a thief. According to Maame Adutwumwaa, the mother of the 17-year old boy Moses, who was alleged to be the thief, her son returned from work Friday evening around …

Management of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has authorised Takoradi-based rapper, Kofi Kinaata‘s Things Fall Apart song to be studied in the school. Effective the first semester of the 2021/2022 academic year, level 200 students of the English department will take it up. This was announced on the Twitter page of Voice …

Director of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), Prof Peter Quartey, has indicated that the main cause of the depreciation of the Ghana Cedi is speculation by Ghanaians. According to him, speculations that the Cedi will further depreciate against the major currencies encourage people to buy more …

His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces has met President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to review the prospects of advancing the relations between the two nations. Sheikh Mohamed met President Akufo-Addo at Al Shati’ …

Popular Media personality, Amanda Jissih, has shot down claims that the root cause of her feud with MzGee is because they both wanted the same man. During a discussion on UTV’s United Showbiz, Amanda was asked to explain why she and MzGee have been hostile towards each other in recent times, to an extent …

MP for Bolgatanga Central Constituency, Isaac Adongo, has clapped back at the Bank of Ghana after over he calls “cooked reserves.” Ghana’s cedi has been on a depreciation spree since the beginning of this year. As of Friday, March 10, 2022, the dollar was selling at GH¢7.65. This according to the business community …

To stay in development and grow business opportunities within the subregion, Guinness Nigeria PLC has moved its corporate headquarters from Lagos, Nigeria to Ghana. The development will place Guinness Nigeria in the league of other businesses like Unilever and Dunlop that have left Nigeria for Ghana. According to a report …

Over 100 tonnes of scraps worth Ghc 250,000 have been burnt to ashes at Kasoa in the Awutu Senya East Municipality of the Central Region. The inferno, which started around 2:00am on Saturday night ravaged through a major part of the scrap yard. It took fire officers several hours to douse …