A lawyer and human rights activist, Mr Anthony Akoto Ampaw, says it has become imperative to include the teaching of human rights in the country’s educational curricula. He said inculcating the values and tenets of human rights at all levels of education would make people aware of their rights and make them respect the rights […]
The Upper West Regional Director of Health Services, Dr Damien Punguyire, has appealed to the people in the region to avail themselves of the ongoing yellow fever vaccination exercise in the area for the sake of the health of the public. He said although the exercise was aimed at protecting people from the high yellow […]
The digital transformation journey embarked on by the government should be a shared vision by all Ghanaians, the Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has said. In doing that, he urged the people to lead the conversation on how best the nation could position itself to drive its development agenda through inclusive and collaborative stakeholder participation in […]
The government is rolling out a GH¢10-billion package over three years as support for start-up businesses and youth entrepreneurship ventures in the country. In line with this, the government, through the E-Levy, proposes to use GH¢1 billion each year to catalyse an ecosystem to create one million jobs. In partnership with its development partners, the […]
Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) will start a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) programme next academic year to help train more lecturers for teaching and research in media studies. The institute also intends to add a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programme once the MPhil programme gets underway. The Deputy Rector of GIJ, […]
Effective January 1, 2022, small-scale miners (SSM) will no more be required to pay three per cent withholding tax on gold at the point of export through the Precious Minerals Marketing Company (PMMC). This follows the government’s fiscal policy to scrap the three per cent withholding tax on processed gold and replace it with 1.5 […]
Employment opportunities still exist in the public sector for graduates, the Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said. However, he has advised graduates to venture into entrepreneurship, where they can develop their own businesses to enable them to build a sound future for themselves and also contribute to the development of the country. Dr Bawumia gave […]
A new research, conducted by WaterAid, an NGO, has found out that sanitation workers have been forgotten as frontline workers in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The research, carried out in South Asia, Burkina Faso and Nigeria, also found out that many of the sanitation workers in developing countries had been forgotten, underpaid, unprotected […]
After Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta’s 2022 Budget presentation, as usual, some critics by every means want to engage in vile propaganda against Vice-President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia. This time around, these critics are using a suggestion by Dr. Bawumia. It would be recalled that in an interview with Kwame Sefa Kayi, Dr. Bawumia said that […]
The Telecommunications Chamber has stated that it will engage the government on the newly introduced electronic transaction levy to ensure all-inclusive digital transactions at all levels. According to Chief Executive Officer of the Telecommunications Chamber, Kenneth Ashigbey, the government did not engage the telecommunications industry before introducing the new levy. “So far as this particular […]
President Akufo-Addo has said that everyone should be concerned about governance infractions as when they arise, they exact enormous costs that affect the entire society. “The cost of poor governance can be enormous,” he stressed in remarks presented on his behalf by Minister of State at the Finance Ministry, Charles Adu Boahen, to the Institute […]
The Attorney-General (A-G) and Minister of Justice, Mr Godfred Yeboah Dame, will soon lay before Parliament two bills that will provide alternative sentencing other than imprisonment for accused persons and convicts. The two bills are the Plea Bargaining Bill and the Alternative Sentencing Bill. Plea bargaining is where an accused person makes some concessions, either […]
