Category: News
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Inside Emirates Airbus A380 [Photos]
Emirates Airlines’ Airbus A380 on Tuesday [October 2, 2018] made a historic one off visit to Ghana. The airbus is one of the fleet of large bodied aircraft owned by the Dubai based airlines. Ghanaian Captain, Solomon Quainoo piloted the Airbus A380. The move is also to test the ability of the new Terminal 3…
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Voltic, Jaldahaara Foundation provide potable water to schools
Voltic Ghana Limited has partnered Jaldahaara Foundation in a project which seeks to provide water to two thousand (2,000) students in five different schools across the country for the next year. The move forms part of Voltic’s Corporate Social Responsibility. The company says as one of the pioneers of bottled water in Ghana, it will…
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MTN delights customers on Emirates Airbus A380
Five customers of MTN Ghana have been given upgraded services on Emirates Airbus A380 which landed in Accra on Tuesday [October 2, 2018]. A statement from MTN said, ‘MTN is set to delight its customers today as Ghanaians welcome for the first time the world’s largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380 to terminal 3 at…
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Ghanaian-piloted A380 aircraft receives rousing welcome [Photos]
History was made today in the country’s aviation section as the world’s biggest passenger aircraft, Airbus A380, belonging to Emirates Airlines, made a debut touch down in Ghana. The double-decker aircraft arrived at the newly constructed Terminal 3 of the Kotoka International Airport on Tuesday afternoon to a rousing welcome by some airport staff and…
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Dr. Nduom leads campaign to stop panic withdrawals
Following recent developments of panic withdrawals within the financial sector, the Chairman of GN Bank, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom will lead a team of bank officials to begin a tour of the ten regions on Wednesday 3rd October with the theme “STOP THE PANIC WITHDRAWALS AND STRENGHTEN OUR INDIGENOUS BANKS”. The team will use the…
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Databank dissociates itself from investment website ‘INVEST-XD’
Investment company, Databank, has warned the general public against investing with a website, INVEST-XD. Managers of the INVEST-XD website, are allegedly encouraging the public to invest with them in Databank’s products such as Databank MFund, claiming it has a partnership with the investment firm. But in a statement copied to Citi Business News, Databank said…
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Fuel prices to remain unchanged in October
Fuel prices are to remain stable for the first pricing window of October [spanning October 1-15, 2018]. This is a prediction by the Institute of Energy Security (IES). The IES attributes the findings to various indicators such as the cedi’s performance and marginal increase in the price of Brent crude. Prices of fuel went up…
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Avoid hasty tax policies with rebased economy – Economist
Economist, Dr. Lord Mensah has called for a count by count assessment of all sectors of the economy before undertaking any tax reform following the rebasing of the economy. According to him, such a move will make up for the shortfall in revenue generation. The Ghana Statistical Service recently announced that the economy had expanded…
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GH¢20 bn VAT target to thrive on compliance – Analyst
Some Tax Analysts have tasked government to enforce the compliance of payment of VAT if it is to double VAT collection. Their sentiment comes at the back of government’s plans to double VAT collection from 10 billion cedis to over 20 billion cedis. Ahead of government’s preparation towards the 2019 budget in November 2018, Finance…
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Cocoa prices remain at GH¢7,600 per tonne
The government has kept the price of cocoa unchanged for yet another time. This means the industry regulator will be buying a tonne of cocoa beans for GH¢7,600 from cocoa farmers for the 2018/2019 crop year; same as it did for the just ended crop season. But the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) wants the government to…