A survey of bank charges by the Bank of Ghana for the first quarter 2021 has revealed that the individuals would need at least GHS10 and not more than GHS100 to open a current account with a bank in Ghana.
Italian oil giant, ENI has sued the Government of Ghana in a London court after a former Energy Minister John Peter Amewu in April 2020 issued a directive to the company and Springfield E&P to begin talks and combine their adjacent oil and gas fields.
The Director-General of the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC), Prof. Benjamin Jabez Botwe Nyarko, has said that Ghana’s Nuclear Power Programme (NPP) will generate an estimated $1.2 billion through local industry participation during its implementation.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), a fiscal policy think-tank, has called for the state to take over the commanding heights of Ghana’s extractive sector to increase government revenue generation from the nation’s mineral and oil resources.
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) says it will reject any expenditure incurred by any company in Ghana without a Value Added Tax (VAT) invoice starting from October.
According to American political activist and philosopher, Thomas Paine, “a body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.â€
Ghana’s ongoing economic rebound, after suffering its first recession in over three decades last year, reached a crescendo during the second quarter of this year, reaching 8.9 percent of Gross Domestic Product.
Petroleum economist, Dr Theo Acheampong, has stated that the move by the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation to increase stakes in Aker's oil blocks is not a bad idea.
