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Akufo-Addo’s government full of old people with colonial mentality – Norman

The President and CEO of the Institute for Security, Disaster and Emergency Studies, Dr. Ishmael Norman has said the current New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration is full of old people with colonial mindsets. In his view, these officials are still adopting old ways of governing the country. His comments follow …

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Government issues new domestic debt calendar

  Government has unveiled a new domestic debt securities issuance calendar for the period June to August 2021. Interestingly the new calendar overlaps part of the immediate past one which was released less than two months ago, covering the second quarter of the year i.e. April to June. Actually, this …

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Government to renovate all dilapidated public basic schools

Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, the Minister of Education, has announced plans by the Ministry to begin rehabilitating all old and dilapidated basic schools across the country. This is to make sure that the schools were safe, attractive and conducive for effective teaching and learning. Dr Adutwum said this when he …

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Government to focus on local content and value addition in mining industry – Minister

Government will shift focus on fiscal returns in the mining industry to promoting local content and participation, value addition, and resource-based industrialization, Mr George Mireku Duker, Deputy Minister-Designate for Lands and Natural Resources, has said. Speaking at the opening of the West Africa Mining and Power Conference Digital Series, Mr …

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Government releases funds for SHS Feeding

The Ministry of Education (MOE) has released an amount of Gh¢125,998,145.00 to the Buffer Stock Company and Headmasters of Senior High Schools for the payment of perishable food items for the school feeding programme across the country. Out of the total amount paid on May 14, 2021, Gh¢83, 184,673.00 was …

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Top 7 highest paid government officials in Ghana & their salaries 2021

Government officials in Ghana are individuals the president has appointed directly or indirectly to head agencies, institutions, ministries or organizations. Their jobs are very demanding, important and inure to the growth of the country thus their salaries are certainly gargantuan or just equivalent to the work they do. As to whether …

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Government Urged To Increase Feeding Fee For Prison Inmates

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. …

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Govt has no interest in who becomes Chief Imam – Attorney General clarifies

  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 …

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Government working on Amazon operating in Ghana – Finance Minister

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 …

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