General News
Freight forwarders complain about high port duties

The country’s importers and freight forwarders are severely hampered by the high import tariffs at the ports.
According to the Ghana Institute of Freight Forwarders, the situation is discouraging importers.
Port traffic inflows have recently decreased, owing primarily to low importation.
According to industry participants, the high import charges that must be paid before goods are cleared are partially to blame for the trend.
Speaking on the subject, Johnny Mantey, chairman of the Ghana Institute of Freight Forwarders’ Tema District, stated that both importers and freight forwarders are no longer able to deal with the situation.
All of the regulators are at the port, and all they do is raise the tariffs while doing nothing else. The fees are becoming onerous. Benchmark values must be eliminated, and Customs, GRA, and other bodies must work together to find better ways to determine the duties that are payable,” he said on Citi TV’s Point of View.
The GPHA convened an emergency stakeholder meeting to determine the causes of the significant drop in importation.
“The volumes at the port have gone down by 50 per cent. GPHA is very worried, but the major issue is all about taxes and exchange rates. Importation is key in any economy; however, the problem is about the unpredictability in our space. Nobody knows about the site for price verification at the port for the values that are being charged. The commodity site should be made known, and the processes streamlined”, Mr Mantey told host, Bernard Avle.
The Importers and Exporters Association of Ghana has blamed the government’s fiscal policies for the low volume of imports into the country.
The group’s Executive Secretary, Sampson Asaki Awingobi, is concerned about the government’s regressive fiscal and port policies.
“A drop in imports in the country is not because of the GPHA, it is a result of the government’s fiscal policies including the total reversal of the benchmark values that have quadrupled the funds needed to import into the country. The benchmark values have a negative impact on the duty and also the depreciation of the cedi against the dollar. Again, the increase in Value Added Tax in the 2023 budget has also increased the cost of doing business”, he said.
Source: citinewsroom.com
General News
50 church members injured in a four-car collision

A collision involving four automobiles injured about 50 members of Resurrection Power New Generation Church in varying degrees.
The collision occurred on the Accra-Kasoa route at Menskrom Weija Junction.
The four vehicles include a Tata bus for Resurrection Power New Generation Church, an old Benz, a KIA Rio taxi, and a police officer’s Toyota Vitz.
According to eyewitnesses, the police officer, travelling from Kasoa tollbooth to Accra, made a wrong turn and crossed the bus, causing the collision.
When the police car arrived at the Weija junction traffic signal, it collided with the church bus, which collided with two additional automobiles parked on the road’s shoulder.

Some eyewitnesses accused the police officer in the Toyota Vitz of the collision in an interview with Adom News’ Seth Kofi Adjei.
According to eyewitnesses, two church members are believed dead, while several others are gravely hurt.
The bus carried around 80 passengers, including children.
A taxi driver whose automobile was involved in the crash also accused the officer.
The Ghana Fire Service and a police force were on the site to guarantee that traffic flowed freely.
General News
Rastafarian boy who was nearly turned down by Achimota School may now represent them at NSMQ

Since a photo of Achimota School’s probable squad for this year’s National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ) appeared on Friday, June 2, social media has been buzzing.
Tyrone Marhguy, a young man who was at the centre of a dispute that shocked the education system two years ago, stood out among the kids.
Tyrone was photographed in a social media image portraying Achimota School’s trial session in preparation for the 2023 NSMQ season.
Here’s why this communiqué is noteworthy:
He was one of two students who complained that the school had refused them admittance because their hairdo violated the school’s code of conduct.
The Rastafarian kids filed a lawsuit against the Achimota School Board of Governors, the Minister of Education, the Ghana Education Service, and the Attorney General for refusing to enrol them. Achimota School pressed on them shaving their dreadlocks to conform with school requirements.
A High Court judgement on May 31, 2021, ordered the institution to allow the students.
His classmate, Oheneba Kwaku Nkrabea, on the other hand, received a scholarship to Ghana International School.
Tyrone Marhguy went to Achimota School and sat for his end-of-term test barely hours after enrolling in June 2021, following the court verdict.
Following the newest development, social media users appear to be reeling from the prospect of this story blossoming into a ‘zero-to-hero’ story when the national quiz begins soon.
Tyrone’s involvement with the school’s NSMQ squad is not his first.
He was also sighted with the team last year, which raised fresh discussion over his participation.
General News
We’ll exploit Archbishop Agyinasare as a scapegoat – Nogokpo leaders

The Chiefs and people of Nogokpo, in the Volta Region’s Ketu South Municipality, have threatened to make Archbishop Charles Agyinasare, the founder and head of the Perez Chapel International, a scapegoat if he does not appear at their palace.
During a news conference on Friday, June 2, the chiefs issued a 14-day ultimatum to Archbishop Agyinasare to appear before them to settle a disagreement over certain recent utterances he made.
In an interview with Selorm Adonoo on Eyewitness News, the convener of the community, Nufialaga Mawufemor Korbla Nonyigbey, cautioned, “We have given him a 14-day ultimatum. If he wants to do the needful, he should come. If he doesn’t want to, he should refuse. If he is mature enough, he should do what is needful. If Agyinasare doesn’t do the needful, we will make him a scapegoat.”
The convener of the community stated that the founder and head of the Perez Chapel International’s excuse will not be accepted.
“He has caused serious damage to Voltarians and the people of Nogokpo. His justification doesn’t prove anything to us,” Nufialaga Mawufemor Korbla Nonyigbey fumed.
Nogokpo chiefs slam Christian Council
He lambasted the Christian Council for being quiet about the matter.
“He said things damaging a whole community, and the Christian Council thinks it’s okay with what he said. He should respect the African traditional belief system,” he pointed out.
The convener of the community clarified that the deity in Nogokpo does not scare people away.
“It is not a matter of instilling fear in people. Everyone knows the power of the supreme deity, the thunder deity in Nogokpo. Nogokpo is the god of justice,” he clarified.
On Thursday, May 25, 2023, Archbishop Agyinasare caused a stir during a Supernatural Summit held at the headquarters of Perez Chapel in Accra, when he preached about divine protection and the existence of evil forces, insinuating against Nogokpo, a deity named after a town in the Volta Region.
He said Nogokpo is the demonic headquarters of the Volta Region, which outraged the town’s leaders and residents.
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