Government will from this year, expand the free Senior High School (SHS) programme to cover public Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institution first year students, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced. President Akufo-Addo who emphasised investments in the educational sector as being a key priority of his …
Read More »Salaries will be paid in the short term – Government assures public servants
The government has assured that salaries of public sector workers will be paid without delay despite global and local economic challenges. Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, during Thursday, February 24 Parliamentary sitting hinted that government may not be able to pay salaries, if something drastic is not done in the next 3 months. …
Read More »Kwahu Easter: Don’t dress like mad people – Obomeng Chief cautions public
The Chief of Obomeng in the Kwahu South Municipal Assembly Nana Effah Opinamang II has cautioned the youth to be mindful of their dressing during this year’s Easter celebration. He described those who may put on indecent dresses as mentally challenged persons adding that elders of the town will not …
Read More »No increment in transport fare yet – GPRTU urges public
The Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) has urged the public to disregard reports suggesting that transport fares will go up by 30 percent tomorrow, Friday, February 18, 2022. The Union said it would conclude its negotiations with the Government on Monday, February 21, 2022, after, which it would officially …
Read More »Heads of public institutions sacked in Akufo-Addo’s tenure
The Managing Director of the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL), Yaw Kwakwa, was dismissed from his job. Journalists broke his dismissal to him while he was on an official assignment. No reason was given for his dismissal. He is, however, not the first head of a state institution to have …
Read More »Tollbooths to be converted to public urinals
The Minister for Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako-Attah, has disclosed tollbooths across the country will used to serve another public purpose since the collection of road tolls has been abolished by the government. Government in its 2022 Budget removed scrapped the collection of tolls across the country. A directive from …
Read More »Koku Anyidoho dares Mahama to public debate as he demands inquest into Atta Mills’ death
Samuel Koku Anyidoho, head of Communications at the Office of the President during the era of Professor John Evans Atta Mills has challenged then Vice President John Dramani Mahama to a public debate over circumstances leading to the death of the late president and other issues around their relationship. The former Deputy General Secretary …
Read More »Former Prez Kufour blocks public road for estate project
Ashanti Regional Director of the Urban Road says the road was constructed illegally Former President John Agyekum Kufour has allegedly blocked a major road that connects commuters to other areas with a wall ostensibly for an estate project. The blocked road connects State Experimental Basic School, Ashanti Regional Coordinating …
Read More »Conduct of members and effect on public confidence in parliament
The Ghana Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Network (GPMON) has observed with grave concern the current disturbances within the Parliament of Ghana in the past few weeks. The contentions and disturbing incidents concern the Motion to approve the Budget and Economic Policy of Government for the year 2022, the interpretation of Article …
Read More »Voting in Parliament should be public, not only anti-gay bill – CDD Boss
Executive Director of the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Professor Henry Kwasi Prempeh, has rejected a directive given by Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin to the effect that passing of the anti-gay bill will be public. In his view, there is nothing special about the anti-gay bill for which …
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