The CEO of 3Music Awards, Sadiq Abdulai Abu, says although he will like the case against Black Sherif to be solved out of court, such issues, which are common on Ghana’s music scene, could be clarified if the parties involved choose to battle it out in court.
“I think that both parties are in a better place to build this out of court settling but regardless if both parties decide to go the whole length, it would be a good case to define the industry,” he said in an interview on DayBreak Hitz on Hitz FM, Tuesday, April 12.
According to him, he “knows” how both parties in the case have been committed to settle it out of court but cannot pinpoint what led to the situation being sent to court.
“For now, I’m not so sure what may have compelled Snap (former financier of Black Sherif) to resort to the court.”
He, however, pointed out that Black Sherif’s current situation could be beneficial or detrimental based on how he responds to it.
“The career of the young guy is very important and this could affect him. It could also create bad blood as well; affect the good will that he is enjoying from the public. But then again, on the other side, the publicity could affect his new found relevance in the music industry.
“Depending on how you look at this: it could be a good and a bad thing as well. But generally, the way these things work is that, it often inures to the benefit of the talent, because he gets the publicity and if he is able to react very well in terms of how he responds and the way he conducts himself, he may actually come out winning.”
The entrepreneur, who is now an “enabler” for Black Sherif further indicated that this situation could affect “investor confidence” in the music industry – a situation he said had existed once.
As Ghanaians brace themselves for the Electronic Transfer Levy (E-Levy) to be implemented next month, the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has outlined the transactions that will not be affected by the new tax policy.
According to the Authority, although the tax policy is to broaden the tax net, not all electronic transactions will come with a 1.5% tax rate.
The Head of Compliance, Domestic Tax Revenue Unit at the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Victor Yao Akogo on JoyNews’ The Probe listed them as follows;
A cumulative transfer of ¢100 made by the same person.
A transfer between accounts owned by the same person.
Transfers for the payment of taxes, fees and charges on the Ghana.gov platform
Electronic clearing of cheques
Specified merchant payments (that is, payments to commercial establishments registered with the GRA for income tax and VAT purposes)
Transfers between principal, master agent, and agent’s accounts.
For the transfers that will be affected; a Principal Revenue Officer and Head of the Project Management Unit said the Authority, Isaac Kobina Amoako said;
Mobile money transfers done between accounts on the same Electronic Money Issuer.
Mobile money transfer to a receiver on another Electronic Money Issuer [Interoperability transfer]
Transfer from a bank account to [another person’s] mobile money account.
From a mobile money account to [another person’s] bank account.
Bank transfers on an instant paid digital platform.
The Bureau of Public Safety is a non-profit organization working together with Government agencies, Businesses and Civil Society Organizations towards improving the quality of public safety through advocacy, education and development of programs for sustainable development of the environment and public health to improve the quality of life of the citizenry across the country and the West African sub region.
The Bureau of Public Safety has revealed that violent crimes in the country went up by 40.8 % compared to the situation in 2020. This was contained in the 2021 edition of the annual ‘Ghana Public Safety and Crime Report. Data in the report indicated that associated deaths also went up by 53.7 %, representing a record jump from the previous report. The report also found that the Greater Accra Region and the Ashanti Region topped the chart, for regions with the greatest number of crime incidents for the year under review. The report stated that Ashanti Region is the murder capital of the country, returning 23% of all homicide cases reported across the country in 2021.
Central Region dominated reported aggravated assault cases across the country by returning 23 percent of all aggravated assault cases reported for the period. Firearm use in the commission of reported violent crime has increased for the third year running, increasing in 2021 by 57.6% over 2020. With data suggesting that more than 70% of the top three incidents of violent crimes occurred outside the places of abode of the victims, the Bureau of Public Safety called for public education “about situational awareness and dangers in transitional spaces.”
It also emphasised the need to expand community policing while suggesting that state-mounted CCTV cameras should be deployed, and footage occasionally released to the public to promote awareness and serve as a deterrent to would-be criminals.
The Pressure Group, ‘Fixing the Country Movement,’ says last week’s lecture on the economy by Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, is one of optimism, joy, and reflection. The group said the lecture displayed a lot of clear policy ideas on how to deal with the COVID-19 challenges to build a robust economy. A Political Strategist, and Convener of ‘Fixing the Country Movement’, Ernest Kofi Owusu Bempah, stated this at a news conference in Accra.
Mr. Bempah said President Akufo-Addo’s government is not relenting in efforts at building a robust economy after the COVID 19 pandemic. He wondered why some opposition elements do not see anything positive from the government, particularly the economic recovery after the pandemic.
Mr. Owusu Bempah said with the effect of the COVID pandemic on the global economy, ”governments have no option but to develop homegrown policies, especially, taxation to avert any economic disaster”.
Emmanuel Macron has won the first round of the French election and far-left rival Marine Le Pen will fight him for the presidency for a second time.
“Make no mistake, nothing is decided,” he told cheering supporters.
In the end, he won a convincing first-round victory, but opinion polls suggest the run-off could be much closer.
Ms Le Pen called on every non-Macron voter to join her and “put France back in order”.
With 97% of results counted, Emmanuel Macron had 27.6% of the vote, Marine Le Pen 23.41% and Jean-Luc Mélenchon 21.95%.
Kingmaker on far left
Veteran far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon polled even better than five years ago and now has the unlikely role of kingmaker.
“You must not give a single vote to Marine Le Pen,” he warned his supporters, but unlike other candidates, he pointedly did not back the president instead. Later in the evening, Mélenchon activists gathered outside his campaign HQ thinking he might even come second, but it was not to be.
Making up more than a fifth of the vote, Mélenchon voters could decide the final round of this election, yet many of them may just sit the second round out and abstain.
Twelve candidates were in the running, but these were the only three who polled more than 10%. Many voters appeared to embrace the idea of tactical or “useful” voting, deciding that the other nine candidates had no hope of making the run-off.
Several of the nine had little chance anyway, but the 2022 presidential election will be partly remembered for the disaster that befell the two old parties that used to run France, the Republicans and Socialists. They sank almost without trace, with Socialist Anne Hidalgo falling below 2%.
It was only a few months ago that Valérie Pécresse was still in the race for the right-wing Republicans. She performed so badly, her party could not even scrape the 5% needed to claim its election costs.
This is potentially terrible news for a party already tearing itself apart. Parties that fail to reach 5% only get €800,000 (£670,000) of their campaign funding covered by the state, and the Republicans will have paid out far more than that.
Run-off campaign starts now
A renewed battle for votes is under way. Marine Le Pen can count on supporters of Eric Zemmour, whose more hardline nationalism won him fourth place and 7%. Nationalist Nicolas Dupont-Aignan has also backed her. She can already count on an impressive 33% of the entire vote.
Mr Macron’s team is planning a series of big rallies and major TV appearances. Most of the other candidates on the left have backed him, as has Valérie Pécresse, but one-time Socialist candidate Ségolène Royal said the president now had to “earn” victory.
Ifop pollster François Dabi said his company’s 51%-49% estimate for the run-off was the closest they had ever predicted. An Elabe poll put the gap at 52%-48% and an Ipsos poll suggested it was wider still.
Addressing his supporters, Mr Macron looked a relieved man and he promised to work harder than in the first part of the campaign. He had only started campaigning eight days before the vote, his mind more focused on Russia’s war in Ukraine.
“When the extreme right in all its forms represents so much of our country,” he said, “we cannot feel that things are going well.”
He addressed Le Pen voters too: “I want to convince them in the next few days that our project answers solidly to their fears and challenges of our time.”
Ms Le Pen said it was time for a “great changeover”, with a fundamental choice on 24 April of two opposite views: “Either division and disorder, or a union of the French people around guaranteed social justice.”
She has built her campaign around the cost-of-living crunch facing much of Europe, promising to cut taxes and waive income tax for under-30s. There has been less emphasis on nationalism, but she wants a referendum on restricting immigration, radical change to the EU and a ban on the Islamic hijab in public areas.
The campaign only sparked into life in the final fortnight, first because of the Covid pandemic and then the Russian war. But in the end, the spring sunshine meant turnout was not as low as feared, at almost 75%.
One in four young voters backed the president, although more than one in three 18-24 year-olds opted for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, according to Elabe pollsters.
Marine Le Pen performed best among 35-64 year-olds, while the president was favoured by over-65s.
It was already clear from Mr Macron’s speech that he planned to target Ms Le Pen’s close links with the Kremlin. Although she has condemned Vladimir Putin’s war, she visited him before the previous election in 2017 and her party took out a Russian loan.
He wanted a France that made alliances with great democracies to defend itself, he said, not a state that would leave Europe and have only populists and xenophobes for allies.
The Ghana Revenue Authority headed by Mr. Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah has sent a reminder to the General Public that the deduction of the Electronic Electronic Transfer Levy Act 2022 (Act 1075) implementation of the Levy commences on 1st May 2022.
The Levy was accented by the President of Ghana on March 31,2022.
An electronic Transfer levy is imposed on 1.50% on electronic transfers. The levy is charged on an electronic transfer at the time of the transfer.
The Levy applies to the following transfers:
Mobile money transfers done between accounts on the same electronic money issuer
Mobile money transfers from an account on one electronic money issuer to a recipient on another electronic money issuer
Transfers from bank accounts to mobile money accounts
Transfers from mobile money accounts to bank accounts
Bank transfers on an instant pay digital platform or application originating from a bank account belonging to an individual subject to a daily threshold to be determined by the Minister of Finance.
The Charging Entities are:
Electronic Money Issuers
Payment Service Providers
Banks
Specialised Deposit Taking Institutions
Other Financial Institutions prescribed by Regulations made under the Act
The accident occurred at 12:11pm on April 9 at around Anaji Choice Mart Traffic Light.
According to an eyewitness,Brandford-Mensah,the accident involved a Tipper truck and a motor rider.He explained that,when the Traffic light changed to green ,the motor rider wanted to overtake but unfortunately for him he geared towards the back tyre of the said moving tipper truck to which his head got smashed.
The Ghana Police arrived to scene at 12:35pm to investigate and has then taken the body to the morgue..
The Ghana Grid Company Limited has announced that from Saturday April 9,2022 to Thursday June 30,2022 most parts of the Accra will experience outrage.
According to them the main purpose is to help them upgrade the transmission of the two lines because of the High demand for Electricity in Accra and its environs.
