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AshantiFest2025: Ashanti schools showcase talent at science & technology fair

The AshantiFest2025 Education, Science & Technology Fair recently took place, bringing together several schools to participate in various competitions and exhibitions.

Dr. Frank Amoakohene, Ashanti Regional Minister, attended the event and praised the students’ exceptional performance, describing it as an inspiring showcase of brilliance and creativity.

The fair featured a range of activities, including:
– Reading Competitions: Students demonstrated their reading skills, showcasing their ability to comprehend and interpret complex texts.

Spelling Bees: Participants competed to spell words correctly, highlighting their linguistic skills and attention to detail.
– Debates: Students engaged in thought-provoking debates, presenting well-structured arguments and counterarguments on various topics.
– Tech Exhibitions: Young innovators showcased their technological creations, demonstrating their problem-solving skills and creativity.

Dr. Frank Amoakohene emphasized the importance of peer learning, encouraging students to share ideas, review each other’s work, and build on collective knowledge.

This approach fosters a collaborative learning environment, allowing students to learn from one another and develop essential teamwork.

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The answer is simple! In the UK, bet winnings are not taxed. Rather, bet companies are heavily taxed. See https://www.newbettingsites.co/…/how-much-tax-do…/ This is the example I cited and indicated that a future NDC government will consider post 2020. The new 10% tax on bet winnings that the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia/NPP government has introduced is the direct opposite of what pertains in the UK and the position I canvassed in 2020. Don’t be misled! For the sake of clarity and emphasis, the NDC is vehemently opposed to the 10% tax that has been imposed by the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia/NPP government on bet winnings; 1. Sports betting although undesirable, has become a necessary evil given the state of hopelessness, joblessness and excruciating hardships that Ghanaian youths have been plunged into by the insensitive and reckless Akufo-Addo/Bawumia/NPP government. 2. Taxing bet winnings under the current excruciating economic conditions Ghanaians are facing, particularly, the high rate of inflation of 43.1% and the highest unemployment rate among others, is insensitive and totally unacceptable. 3. Government should be innovative in its bid to increase tax revenue and stop this lazy approach to taxation. If government is minded to raise tax revenue from betting, its focus should be on taxing multinational/foreign bet companies as it pertains in the UK and other jurisdictions and not poor Ghanaian youths who have been compelled by the harsh economic conditions in the country *to seek refuge in sports betting for their very survival.* 4. More importantly, the new 10% tax on bet winnings introduced by the NPP contravenes the government’s social contract with Ghanaians. That social contract is to the effect that; “taxation is a lazy approach to governance” and that an NPP government will “reduce the tax burden on Ghanaians” and move the country from “taxation to production”. Contrary to this promise, the current NPP government has introduced over 25 tax handles since they took office in 2017- a clear betrayal of the trust of Ghanaians. These taxes have conspired to make life unbearable for the vast majority of Ghanaians, particularly the youths who can’t find jobs. The NDC will not and cannot lend its support to the double-standards the NPP continuous to display relative to taxation, particularly at this time of unprecedented hardships. 5. Undoubtedly, Sports Betting has become a refuge for the millions of Ghanaian unemployed youths who have been compelled by the economic mismanagement of the NPP to depend on betting for survival. Imposing a 10% tax on bet winnings is therefore cruel. Given the difficult times we find ourselves in, the NDC fully supports calls for the immediate scrapping of the newly introduced 10% tax on bet winnings.* This is the official position of the great NDC on the newly-introduced 10% tax on bet winnings. Sammy Gyamfi Esq. National Communications Officer National Democratic Congress

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