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The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has extended the deadline for members of the scheme to merge their SSNIT and NIA numbers from 31st December, 2021 to 30th June, 2022. Members who are yet to register for their Ghana Cards are entreated to do so in order to merge their SSNIT and NIA numbers before 30th June, 2022.

The General Secretary of the General Agricultural Workers’ Union (GAWU), Edward Kareweh says the benchmark value policy was not a well thought through policy. This, he says, is because it failed to achieve what it ought to have achieved and looking forward; it might never achieve the purpose for which it was introduced.

The Bank of Ghana will auction $450 million dollars in the first quarter of this year. The move is expected to help bolster the performance of the local currency against the dollar. The Central Bank has therefore announced to all Authorised Foreign Exchange Dealing Banks the Auction Calendar for Foreign Exchange Forward Auctions to be held in the first quarter of 2022.

Ghana Statistical Service set to review basket use for measuring inflation rate as it moves to make it more relevant to current trends

Some Oil Marketing Companies indicate preparedness to absorb the expected hike in fuel prices from this weekend

Economist Professor Peter Quartey points to the Omicron Variant as the biggest threat to full economic recovery.

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