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The Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications (GCT) has called on the government to lower the Electronic Transfer Levy (E-levy) from 1% to 0.5% and impose a 0.5% levy on cash-outs to align the policy with Ghana’s digital-first strategy. “Our recommendation to the Ministry of Finance is to consider reducing the levy …

  Hon. Elvis Nyantekye, the assemblyman representing Kyerase Electoral Area in the Suame Municipality of Ashanti, is pleading with the government to take into account the importance of the Birth Certificate and National Identity Card (Ghana Card) in the lives of Ghanaians and to make them free of charge for …

Businesswoman, Diamond Appiah has been rearrested moments after the Circuit Court in Accra had discharged her in an alleged fraudulent land transaction. The Office of the Attorney in a process signed by Mrs Evelyn Keelson, a Chief State Attorney, dropped the charge against her. But moments after she stepped out …

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, has gone berserk over the demand of GH¢2,000, GH¢3,000 by middlemen who connive with some staff for the acquisition of passport. Describing it as wrong, the minister wondered how a GH¢100 standard service and a GH¢150 for expedited service be …

Telecommunication network giant, MTN, has withdrawn the planned review of the cash-out fee for mobile money. It had earlier announced that starting Saturday, July 1, 2023, customers will experience an adjustment in fees for cash-out transactions that exceed a specific threshold [GH¢2,000 and above]. The GH¢20 flat rate charge on …

The Ghana Health Service is impressing on airlines to add US$7 per passenger on each international airline ticket sold and remit the same to the government agency as a luggage fumigation charge. AviationGhana sources revealed that the decision of the GHS was conveyed by the Ghana Airports Company Limited to …

Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, a flagbearer hopeful for the New Patriotic Party, has accused former National Democratic Congress Deputy General Secretary, Samuel Koku Anyidoho, of orchestrating the treason charge against him in 2012. Addressing delegates of the NPP in the Hohoe Constituency on Sunday, June 11, 2023, Kennedy Agyapong claimed that the former Director of …

Nigerian Afrobeats singer, David Adeleke, widely known as Davido, has disclosed how much he currently charges for a feature. In a recent interview with TheBootlegKev podcast, Davido disclosed that his charges vary according to his relationships with colleagues, adding that, the standard fee is now $100k. Davido also disclosed that initially he wasn’t charging …

By close of day on Thursday, April 20, 2023, micro-blogging site Twitter commenced full implementation of its $8 monthly charge for account verification. Thus, every verified account will have to pay $8 every month to keep their blue badge. Several Ghanaian celebrities who are yet to subscribe have since lost …

Legal practitioner, Maurice Ampaw has promised to press a new contempt charge against media personality, Valentina Nana Agyeiwaa alias Afia Schwarzenegger. According to him, he has evidence to prove that Afia has among other things violated a bond of good behaviour despite being the subject of a charge of contempt by a court. …