Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Prof. Kwasi Opoku Amankwah, says a review of the Free Senior High School Policy is underway. This exercise, he reveals is geared at determining which of the cost components government can relinquish to parents to pay. “…we can do the analysis and then come up and say that, […]
A shadow report on the mental health and human rights situation in the country by 32 nongovernmental organisations (NGOs), has called on the Mental Health Authority (MHA) to establish a visiting committee to monitor the activities of traditional and faith-based healing centres, otherwise known as prayer camps in the country. It explained that the failure […]
Nearly GH¢5 billion was paid in cash as bribes to public officials last year, a new survey that gauges the actual payment or actions that constitute bribes has revealed. The 2021 maiden Ghana Integrity of Public Services Survey (GIPSS) report, which was launched in Accra yesterday, is the first survey on the actual payment of […]
Parliament has approved a $750 million loan agreement to finance capital and growth-related expenditures in the 2022 budget. The facility forms part of the government’s international capital market programme (ICMP) aimed at raising funds to finance critical infrastructure projects in sectors such as roads, energy, railways and health, as captured in the 2022 budget. Proceeds […]
Work has commenced on the rehabilitation and modernisation of the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park in Accra. Expected to be completed in nine months, the $3-million project entails the building of a new Presidential Library, a training centre, a new restaurant and a VVIP lounge. Others are an artistic freedom wall and a music and light […]
Only Ghanaian candidates are left to write the West African Senior High School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), scheduled from August 1 to September 27, 2022. This is because the other four-member countries of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) — Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone and The Gambia — have returned to the May/June calendar and had […]
The daughter of Ghana’s first President, Samia Nkrumah, has commended the government for the moves to upgrade the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum to a standard that befits the stature of her father, Dr Kwame Nkrumah. “I appreciate the fact that it is happening under a government that is considered not really enthusiastic about Kwame Nkrumah and […]
The National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) has initiated a process to roll out a new policy for the removal of disabled vehicles from the road. The policy provides three options for funding the removal of breakdown vehicles to safety. The policy gives the Ghana Police Service the mandate to compulsorily tow vehicles that have broken […]
Vice-President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has responded to critics who recently attacked him for saying that he will choose the Ghana card over infrastructural projects if he has to. Dr. Bawumia said he is unfazed by the criticism because they smack of an ‘impossible mindset’. Speaking at the launch of the E-pharmacy platform on Monday, he […]
The National Service Scheme (NSS) has held the first-ever National Service Visitation Day across the country. It was designed to find out at first-hand how the activities of service personnel were impacting their personal development, user agencies and the nation. In the current service year, the NSS has deployed 110,324 graduates who are undertaking their […]
A gang of six armed robbers said to terrorise people in the Bono East region is in the hands of the police. The suspects, Issa Mohammed alias Baba/Container Money (23), Kelvin Antwi alias Demon (21), Reagan Kwaku Boakye alias Baby Face (22), Kwaku Boateng alias Star Boy (18), Elija Osei (24) and Gyimah Sadique (33), […]
The Director of Ghana School of Law, Yaw D. Oppong has provided insight into what ‘Makola’ means. In an interaction on the JoyNews’ The Law on Sunday, he stated that the name of the area where the Ghana School of Law is located, Makola, has two meanings in the Ga language, depending on the tone used in pronouncing […]
