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 […]
The 2022 Budget aims at empowering Ghanaians to be self-reliance and self-creating. That is, creating the enabling environment for Ghanaians to set up their own businesses, expand to employ more hands thereby reducing the rate of youth unemployment and generally contribute to the growth of the economy. The sustainability of every economy largely depends on […]
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has indicated that the 2022 budget will be heavy on job creation and entrepreneurship. According to him, government is committed to putting in place those measures that will help deal with the unemployment situation in the country as well as recent challenges with the employment of fresh graduates for the public […]
The Ministry of Education has directed the Ghana Education Service (GES) to put in place the right measures to ensure that the practice of teachers engaging pupils in any form of child labour becomes a thing of the past. A Deputy Minister of Education, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour, who gave the directive, said he was […]
Dr Wilberforce Aggrey, the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) lecturer, who is currently in police custody following a new evidence allegedly linking him to the disappearance of his wife, Rhodaline Amoah-Darko has been denied bail by the Kumasi High Court. Dr Aggrey was last Friday (November 12) remanded in police custody by the […]
A slum community located in a prime area along the Spintex Road in Accra has been pulled down in a landmark demolition exercise carried out by the Tema West Municipal Assembly (TWMA). Officials said the area was notorious for child prostitution and drug peddling, among other nefarious activities. The exercise followed what the assembly said […]
Security persons of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), in collaboration with the National Security, have arrested 11 teachers and a headteacher over alleged malpractice in the 2021 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) which took off throughout the country yesterday. The 12 were picked up at two examination centres in the Offinso Municipality in the […]
The Headmaster of the St Charles Lwanga Junior High School (JHS) in Saboba in the Northern Region, who was arrested in connection with the drowning of nine students of the school, was arraigned in Tamale Monday on a charge of manslaughter. The Headmaster, Mr Emmanuel Chinja, 43, was arrested last Saturday and kept in police custody to […]
Former Minister of Transport under the erstwhile Mahama administration, Dzifa Aku Attivor, has died. Family sources said she passed on in Accra in the early hours of Tuesday, November 16, 2021 after a short illness. She was 65-years-old. She was appointed as Minister of Transport in February 2013 by President John Dramani Mahama and resigned in […]
A total of 571,894 candidates from 18,028 schools will sit this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) across the country, starting today. The five-day examination will be written in 2,158 centres under the supervision of 2,158 supervisors and 1,853 assistant supervisors. Statistics Two hundred and eighty-seven thousand, six hundred and five of them are males […]
The Headmaster of the St Charles Lwanga Junior High School (JHS) in Saboba in the Northern Region, who has been arrested in connection with the drowning of nine students of the school, will be arraigned in Tamale today on a charge of manslaughter. The Headmaster, Mr Emmanuel Chinja, 43, was arrested last Saturday and kept […]
