MTN Ghana Announces Plans To Increase Internet Data Costs From Monday, November 14

• MTN Ghana has announced plans to increase the cost of internet data from Monday, November 14, 2022
• The telecoms giant sent text messages to the millions of its subscribers on Thursday, November 10, 2022 that they should be ready for the upward review
• Inflation in Ghana keeps soaring over the last six months reaching 40.4% in October 2022 although some experts say the real inflation figure is over 100%

Food prices are not the only things that have been hit amid Ghana’s turbulent economic situation.

Already, the cost of bibles have been reviewed upwards by the Bible Society of Ghana.

Now the cost of internet data is the next big thing to go up as the economic crisis worsens.

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The biggest telecommunications network in the country, MTN Ghana, has announced plans to hike the cost of its internet data from Monday, November 14, 2022.

The telecoms giant did not detail by how much the cost of internet data would be reviewed upwards but says subscribers should ready themselves ahead of the release of new charges.

“Dear Valued Customer, kindly be informed that effective 14th November 2022, data bundle prices will be revised upwards,” MTN Ghana said in a text message to the millions of its subscribers on Thursday, November 10, 2022.

Agric Ministry’s Foodstuffs Described As Expensive; Patrons Say Prices Not Different From Regular Markets

Meanwhile, YEN.com.gh has reported in a separate story that some Ghanaians who stormed the premises of the Food and Agriculture Ministry to buy foodstuffs on display say they have been disappointed.

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Patrons said the prices of the food items were just like on the regular market, while some even said it was higher.

Hundreds of Ghanaians trooped to the ministry in high hopes of buying the plantains on display at a cheaper than the regular market price that has been hit by 40.4% inflation.

Professor Hanke Mocks Akufo-Addo’s Promise To Turn Economic Crisis In Opportunity; “He Is On Another Planet”

Also, Applied Economist professor Steve Hanke has expressed doubt in president Nana Akufo-Addo's promise to turn Ghana's economic crisis into an opportunity.

The John Hopkins University professor said president Akufo-Addo speaks as if he is not on this planet.

"Pres. Akufo-Addo says he will turn #Ghana's economic crisis "into an opportunity." SPOILER ALERT: Akufo-Addo must be on another planet. Today, I measure Ghana's inflation at a stunning 156%/yr. That's nearly FOUR TIMES the official rate," the academic tweeted on Friday, November 11, 2022.

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Source: YEN.com.gh