Tag Archives: Policy

Private schools welcomes into Free SHS policy as government expands placement system

The Bono East Regional Chairman of the Ghana National Association of Private Schools (GNAPS), Mr. Joseph Prince Soregan, has expressed appreciation to the government for its decision to include private Senior High Schools in the national school placement system under the Free Senior High School (Free SHS) policy. The government …

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US deportation 2025, the best policy for Africa’s development — Evangelist

  Donald Trump’s few weeks into his second term as president, United States have intensified a crackdown on immigration, building on his campaign promise of carrying out the largest deportation in American’s history.     Since Trump’s inauguration on January 20, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested …

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Vance and Walz stick to policy in polite VP debate – but who won?

Tuesday night’s vice-presidential debate between Republican JD Vance and Democrat Tim Walz felt like a civil and relatively restrained conversation about the issues at the top of American voters’ minds going into the 5 November election. In that, it was unlike the two presidential debates earlier this year. The two …

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Mahama’s 24hr economy policy poses a threat to NPP breaking the 8, hence its backlash by NPP Communicators – NDC’s Nana Tachie Eric

The Former National PRO For Nation Builders Corps(NABCO) Trainees,Mr Nana Tachie Eric has indicated that the Fomer President John Dramani Mahama’s 24hour economy flagship policy will better tackle the increasingly unemployment rate in the country than the NPP’s NABCO, youth in afforestation and planting for food and job initiatives. According …

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Mahama’s 24-hour economy policy beats Bawumia’s digitalisation – Poll

A poll by Global InfoAnalytics has shown that more Ghanaians are buying into the 24-hour economy policy proposal of former President John Dramani Mahama compared to the digitalisation proposal by his major contender in the 2024 election, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia. According to the poll, the majority of Ghanaians in 14 out …

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3 business groups that have positively reacted to policy proposals of Bawumia

Some key groups in Ghana have expressed support for specific policy proposals of Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, as articulated in his policy speech at the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) on February 7. Among them are the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA), the Association of Ghana Industries …

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Bank of Ghana releases Monetary Policy Committee 2024 timetable

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) has published its timetable for the 2024 year to provide certainty to the markets. The MPC meetings are to assess current economic conditions and the inflation outlook. After deliberations, the monetary policy rate decision is finalized by a vote …

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How Kofi Amoabeng sacked an employee a week after his wedding for breaching their Amorous Policy

If you have followed the stories coming out of ‘The UT Story Vol 2: Building A Winning Team’, by Capt Prince Kofi Amoabeng (rtd), that GhanaWeb has started serializing, you would have read by now that the old soldier had cause to set up an Amorous Policy at the company. This was …

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Free SHS policy is poorly targeted, only increased enrolment – IMF

International Monetary Fund (IMF) has criticised Ghana’s free Senior High School policy saying, although it has increased enrolment, it is poorly targeted. “Ghana spends close to 4 percent of GDP on education with good results in terms of enrolment but poor learning outcomes. The flagship programme Free Senior High School …

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Gold-for-Oil policy is a scam – Sam George

The Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Sam Nartey George, has described the God-for-Oil policy the government is implementing as a scam. According to him, the aim of the policy is to reduce the prices of oil products but the prices of these items are set to increase again this …

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