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1. Court grants ASEPA boss Mensah Thompson GH¢50k bail
The Executive Director of ASEPA, Mensah Thompson, has pleaded not guilty to two criminal charges of publication of false news and offensive conduct conducive to the breach of peace.
He has subsequently been admitted to a bail sum of GH¢50,000 with two sureties.
He is also to report to the investigating officer at the Teshie District Police Command at least twice a week.
Mr. Thompson put up a Facebook post last year alleging that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s relatives used the presidential jet on a shopping spree to the United Kingdom. He subsequently retracted the post and apologized for it.
2. Akufo-Addo on 10-day working visit to France, Guyana, Belgium, Germany, UK
President Akufo-Addo left Ghana, on Thursday, 10th February 2022, to begin a ten-day working visit to France, Guyana, Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom.
President Akufo-Addo’s first port of call will be Brest, France, where, at the invitation of H.E. Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic, he will participate in the One Ocean Summit, to be held on Friday, 11th February, 2022. Up to 40 world leaders are due to make “ambitious and concrete commitments” towards combating illegal fishing, decarbonising shipping and reducing plastic pollution at what is billed as the first high-level summit dedicated to the ocean.
3. Settled! E-Levy cake was not from Minority – Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu’s aide clarifies
An aide to the Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has resolved claims that the birthday cake designed to spell ‘E-LEVY’ was donated to his boss by the Minority in Parliament.
Maxwell Ofosu Boakye said the cake came from someone close to the Majority Leader and not from the opposition NDC MPs.
4. NDC will abolish E-Levy when we win power- Asiedu Nketia
General Secretary for the NDC, Aseidu Nketia says the party will abolish the Electronic Transaction Levy, E-levy if they win power.
He explained at the Yentua demo organized by the Youth Wing of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in collaboration with other groups said: "The E-levy is not taxation, it is daylight robbery".
5. Yentua demo against E-Levy pulls hundreds of Okada riders, head potters
Hundreds of commercial motor riders, known popularly as 'Okada riders' and head porters (Kayayees) have joined the 'Yentua demo' Thursday against the E-Levy and corruption.
Thousands of protesters clad in red poured onto the streets today February 10, 2022, to march against the proposed levy that will be charged on some mobile money and electronic bank transactions.
6. Mammoth Yentua demo against E-Levy disrupts Accra traffic (Photos)
Mammoth Yentua demo organized by the Youth Wing of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in collaboration with other groups against E-Levy has disrupted traffic in Accra.
7. Sam George dares Majority Leader to name NDC MP who donated ‘outrageous’ E-Levy cake
Ningo-Prampram MP, Sam Nartey George, has denied claims that the widely condemned cake in the shape of ‘E-Levy’ captured at the 65th birthday of Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, was donated by an opposition legislator.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) legislator said Wednesday that the Majority Leader must settle the controversy about the cake that has been criticised as insensitive by naming the donor.
8. Humanise your brand to stay relevant – brand strategist urges businesses
Brand Strategist at BKC Consulting, Bernard Kelvin Clive, has advised that businesses must consider humanising their brands to remain relevant. He explained that when businesses start to critically give equal attention to consumers just as they do with products, quality will be assured – and that could expand their market-base.
“To stay relevant, be human; let what you do from your products to services come from the heart. When you care about people, regardless of the angle the economy moves to, you will give them something worth their time, worth their value, worth exchanging their money for. Humanise your brand at every stage. With or without crisis, always care about your consumers,” he said, reiterating that it is expedient in this current dispensation – especially with the constant change in consumer behaviour.
9. Shatta Michy finds new passion in acting
Ghanaian socialite Diamond Michelle Gbagonah known in showbiz as Michy has disclosed that among all other things, she is now a full-time actor.
According to Michy, she's a musician, a businesswoman, and also a lawyer in the making but however shes currently channelling all her energies into acting.
10. Ghana Premier League matchday 17 officials announced
The Referees Committee of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) has announced Match Officials for Matchweek 17 of the Ghana Premier League.