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Mr David Yiridong Issaka, Director of Centre for Social Development (CSD), a non-governmental organization (NGO), has appealed to government to increase the feeding fee for prison inmates in the country. He said currently prison inmates were marked GH¢1.80p daily to take care of three square meals, and indicated it was woefully inadequate. …

  Attorney General Godfred Dame has said the government will be engaging in “excessive entanglement” if at any point it tries to interfere with the process of electingleadership of any religious group in the country. The government’s top lawyer stressed that processes leading to the selection or succession of religious leaders were …

The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) is working assiduously to attract Amazon to Ghana, Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has said. According to the Finance Minister, the move was to deepen the technological entrepreneurial ecosystem for Ghanaian entrepreneurs. Addressing the country on the measures being introduced by the government to prop up …

  Government is working towards the establishment of a mental health fund to be financed from the mental health levy, Kwaku Agyemang Manu, the Minister of Health, has said. According to him, the fund when established, would help in the successful implementation of the new mental health policy. Mr Agyemang …

  After announcing his retirement as Senior Minister, Nana Yaw Osafo-Maafo is back in President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s government as a Senior Presidential Advisor. According to a report by Graphic Online sighted by GhanaWeb, the former Senior Minister announced his new appointment whilst addressing the Birim Central Municipal Assembly at Akyem Oda in …

The Ghana National Association of Small Scale Miners is backing Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin who has threatened to resist the government’s community mining program. According to the Okyenhene, the program which was introduced to regulate illegal small scale mining nationwide has rather degraded lands and caused pollution to water …

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has given a firm indication of a take-off by the Akufo-Addo government to implement its second term vision after the approval of its first second-term budget. Parliament last week approved the 2021 budget and the House is expected to finalise the appropriation bill on …

Finance Minister-designate, Ken Ofori-Atta has justified the 1 percent COVID-19 levy introduced in the 2021 budget statement following the agitation over the new tax. Ofori-Atta believes this will among other things prop-up the health system against the pandemic and also support the payment of COVID-19 vaccines imported into the country. …

The Minister-designate for Food and Agriculture, Dr Afriyie Akoto has disclosed that government will commence payments to farmers for cocoa on Monday, 22 February 2021. He also stated that the Central Bank is collaborating with COCOBOD to raise funds to pay Licensed Buying Companies (LBCs), when he appeared before the …

The Minister-designate for Education says the Akufo-Addo government will improve Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) programs to better prepare students for the job market. Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum said the initiative will be a priority in Ghana’s education in the second term of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to help all students …