A Minister of State in charge of Education, Professor Kwesi Yankah, has disputed assertions that the teething challenges that have confronted the implementation of the free Senior High School (SHS) policy is due to lack of proper planning. Although the programme has already taken off, some school heads are yet to receive funding for first ...
The Member of Parliament for the Odododiodioo Constituency, Edwin Nii Lantey Vanderpuye has indicated he may petition President Akufo-Addo over the demolition of portions of the Old Parliament House in Accra. According to him, the unilateral decision to pull down the structure was not in the best interest of the country. The legislator, in whose ...
The fight against illegal mining would have been better served if government engaged small-scale miners instead of banning them, a spokesperson for small-scale miners in the Ashanti Region has suggested. The spokesperson, Francis Opoku, noted that the government kept aligning small scale miners with illegalities hence their protest in Kumasi on Tuesday. The protest was against ...
The cedi should begin its losing streak against the dollar from next month (October) if nothing is done to stem the situation. This is the caution from currency analysts. Their arguments are premised on the potential rise in the demand for the dollar by importers and vendors ahead of the festive season. Citi Business News’ ...
President Akufo-Addo on Tuesday [September 12] formally launched the Free Senior High School program to increase access to Secondary education in Ghana. The launch, which was held at the West Africa Senior High School at Adentan in Accra will see government absorbing the full cost of tuition, school uniform, and feeding for Senior High School ...
Apple has revealed a high-end smartphone with an “edge-to-edge” screen that has no physical home button. The iPhone X – which is referred to as “ten” – uses a facial recognition system to recognise its owner rather than a fingerprint-based one. Apple said FaceID can work in the dark by using 30,000 infra-red dots to ...
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray has resigned following allegations of sexual abuse against teenage boys. Mr Murray said he was stepping aside just hours after the Seattle Times reported that his younger cousin, Joseph Dyer, had accused him of abuse. Mr Dyer is the fifth man to accuse Mr Murray of sexual abuse dating back to ...
The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has announced that government will commence the National Identification registration exercise in November 2017. This is a departure from an earlier announcement by the National Identification Authority (NIA), scheduling the exercise to start on September 15, 2017. Dr. Bawumia explained that the change in date is due to a ...
Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to miss next week’s UN General Assembly as criticism of her handling of the Rohingya crisis grows. Some 370,000 Rohingya Muslims have crossed to Bangladesh since violence in Rakhine state escalated last month. Ms Suu Kyi is facing allegations from supporters in the West that she ...
Despite the arrests and firing of tear gas during a protest by members of the Small-scale Miners Association in Kumasi, the association maintains that the protest was within the confines of the law. Police had said the protesters breached the public order act as some of them were seen to be carrying “offensive implements.” But speaking on ...
BasicNeeds-Ghana has organized a durbar on mental health in the Yendi Municipality of the Northern Region, where the Regent of Dagbon, Kampakuya Naa Yakubu Abdulai Andani, joined the crusade to promote the human rights of mentally ill people. The durbar sponsored by UKaid, brought together traditional rulers, youth and women groups in Dagbon, to chart ...
A Senior lecturer at the University of Ghana Faculty of Law, Dr. Raymond Atuguba, has called for an immediate scraping of Ghana’s writ system which he said is not consistent with the needs and circumstances of the majority of Ghanaians. He made the proposal at the just-ended 2017 Annual Conference of the Ghana Bar Association ...
Various unions and the Alumni of the Tamale Technical University have served notice of resisting the inauguration of the Governing Council with Polytechnic status. Chairman of the Technical University Teachers Association of Ghana (TUTAG), Tamale Chapter, Issahaku Salifu raised this concern at a news conference. He said the union was outraged by the inauguration of ...
A former Trade Minister, Dr. Ekwow Spio Garbrah believes the hitches that have marred the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government’s implementation of the free secondary education policy are due to the lack of planning. In an interview with Citi News, he said this was evidenced by the fact the government is yet to clearly declare the ...
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