Electricity consumers will from next month enjoy discounts for the power they have already consumed in the last three months. For some consumers, especially those who use very little power, it may probably mean not having to pay any bill at all for their October consumption. The discounts are the result of a combination of [...]
Read the rest of this story »Informa Telecoms & Media forecasts the number of smartphone users to reach almost 1.4 billion by the end of 2015, which will represent about 30% of total mobile subscribers worldwide. However, despite this success there will be significant disparities of smartphone adoption and business cases between the developed and emerging mobile markets. While in some [...]
Read the rest of this story »by Robert Peprah-Gyamfi, Md DO YOU APPRECIATE THE SIMPLEST THINGS IN LIFE … CLEAN WATER, ELECTRICITY, EDUCATION AND MEDICAL TREATMENT? PHYSICIAN OFFERS EYE-OPENING VIEW OF AFRICAN LIFE “For anyone growing up in the West – in Europe, America or Canada, for instance – this fascinating book, filled with personal accounts and descriptions, will be an [...]
Read the rest of this story »World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick today urged a rethink of development economics to make it more useful to policy makers and announced a reorientation of World Bank research so it taps more effectively the experiences in developing countries through Open Data, Open Knowledge, Open Solutions . In a speech ahead of the Bank [...]
Read the rest of this story »Let’s Streamline The Import VAT And Excise Duty: To Build Our Crumbling Infrastructure. THE GHANA’S IRRATIONAL IMPORT TAX SYSTEM is out of joint and needs a tune-up, ASAP! Quick, let’s try to explicate the geometry of our import tax code: Import tax, VAT, Ecowas levy, EDIF, Exam fees, processing fees and NHIL fees. Not to [...]
Read the rest of this story »Information gathered points to some key figures in the People’s National Convention (PNC) are involved in covert moves to undermine the unity talks between their party and the Convention People’s Party (CPP).
Read the rest of this story »source: Mninawa Ntloko THE South African Football Association (Safa) will send a letter to the Confederation of African Football (Caf) today announcing SA’s intention to bid for the 2015 African Nations Cup. Safa president Kirsten Nematandani told Business Day that they did not anticipate any problems from Caf relating to match venues, transport, security and [...]
Read the rest of this story »National Chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Jake Otanka Obetsebi Lamptey, has expressed his readiness to cooperate with the Police CID by honouring an invitation for questioning in respect of comments he passed alleging that the NDC masterminded the murder of some people during the Atiwa bye-election, despite strenuously denying the accusation. Mr. [...]
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