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Rev. Fr. Tabase Joseph Aseyire, Board Chairman The Government of Ghana and its agencies in the banking sector regulatory space have been called upon to take urgent steps to reduce the corporate tax rate and the sustainability levy of 25 percent and five (5) percent respectively as the two remain very high for Rural and Community Banks (RCBs) operating across the country.  Board Chairman of the NAARA RURAL BANK PLC, Rev. Father Tabase Joseph Aseyire made the call this Thursday in his report to the bank’s 34th Annual General Meeting (AGM) held in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region. He emphasized the call which he already made back in November 2024 at a similar AGM of the bank in Paga; “we continue to call on government to reduce the corporate tax to at most, 15 percent for RCBs since majority of them are operating in the rural communities in the country”. Giving more insight into how the bank performed by the year ended 31st December, 2024, Rev. Tabase noted that though the peri...

Mrs. Mary Awelana Addah, Executive Dir.  - TI-Ghana In bolstering the efforts of fighting corruption in Ghana, Transparency International Ghana (TI-Ghana) has held a one-day training in Paga, for 50 women drawn from several women’s groups across the Kassena-Nankana West District in the Upper East Region. The anti-corruption training which was themed “Voices of Change; Mobilizing Marginalized Groups Including Women to Challenge Corruption in Their communities” is under the auspices of TI-Ghana’s Inclusive Services Delivery Africa (ISDA) Project with funding support from Global Affairs Canada through the instrumentality of its mother-organization, Transparency International. Speaking on the rationale for the training and why women must get involved in the anti-corruption fight, Executive Director for TI-Ghana, Mrs. Mary Awelana Addah stated that, “evidence continuous to show that corruption and discrimination affect women the most in their daily search for essential services”. She ...

Media practitioners and civil society organisations in the Upper East Region have been trained to enhance their understanding of corruption, its nature, causes and manifestations and its negative effects on society. The media is thus called upon to make available its various platforms and channels to facilitate the sharing of experiences and encounters with corruption and how people dealt with them. Transparency International Ghana (TI-Ghana) with funding from the European Union and the GIZ under the “Participation, Accountability and Integrity for a Resilient Democracy”, PAIReD Project, organised the one-day training in Bolgatanga, the regional capital. The training was also attended by gender desk officers from some selected assemblies in the region, PWD Executives, officers from the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) as well as officials from the National Commission for Civic Education. In her opening remarks touching on the training title dubbed “CSOs...