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A leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and Director of Research at the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), Dr Kwame Amoako Tuffuor has admitted that the free Senior High School (SHS) is fraught with numerous challenges and the earlier government addresses them better for it. He revealed on Kumasi-based Abusua Fm that he wept after seeing the ...

Dr Charles Wereko-Brobby, has described the government’s decision to announce electricity tariff as needless. The former CEO of the Volta River Authority, VRA is of the view that, the disclosure made by the Finance Minister that there will be an average reduction of up to 13 percent in electricity tariffs for residential and industrial consumers clearly undermines the work of ...

A Civil Society Group, SEND-Ghana, is questioning government’s commitment towards addressing infrastructure challenges in various second cycle schools across the country, considering the inadequate budgetary allocation to the sector. The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, whilst presenting the 2018 budget statement to Parliament on Wednesday, said government has allotted GHc9.26 billion to the education sector. But SEND-Ghana in a statement said ...

The acting Managing Director of Ghana Post Company Limited has dismissed claims that the GhanaPostGPS system has been hacked. James Kwofie said the image of the so-called hack sent to an Accra-based radio station was a photo-shopped picture of someone who debugged his own phone and added the logo of the Ghana Post GPS. “The person sent the image when ...

National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for the North Tongu Constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has said the government cannot afford to rely on voluntary contributions to fund education, particularly free SHS, as projections for those funds may not materialize. The government announced that it would set up a fund to receive voluntary contributions from individuals to support the implementation ...

Former Minister of Trade and Industry, Ekow Spio-Garbrah, has questioned the capabilities of the current government’s appointees to run their various offices. Commenting on the 2018 budget presented to Parliament on Wednesday, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer hopeful said although the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has access to more public funds than all his predecessors, he struggles to balance ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has rejected moves by the Akufo-Addo administration to reduce the cost of electricity in the country. On Wednesday, the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, announced in parliament while presenting the 2018 budget statement christened, “Edwuma Budget,” that government intended to cut power tariffs as a way of putting cash into the pockets of the masses. ...

The Minister for Gender and Social Protection, Otiko Afisa-Djaba, has described child marriage and similar outmoded practices as a dishonour to the country. Speaking at the commemoration event of the Campaign on accelerated reduction of maternal mortality in Africa (CARMMA), the Minister said more needs to be done in terms of sensitization in order to stop child marriage in the ...

The Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga Central Isaac Adongo has urged the Akufo-Add-led government to devise other innovative ways to fund the free SHS policy and not resort to what he describes as ‘Susu collection’ from the public. His comments come after the Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta on Wednesday announced that a Voluntary Education Fund is being set up by ...

The Member of Parliament for Bolga Central, Isaac Adongo, has accused the Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta of lying to Ghanaians on the country’s debt profile. Ofori-Atta presenting the government’s 2018 budget statement and Economic policy Wednesday, November 15 disclosed the government through prudent management of the economy successfully reduced the country’s debt burden. The reduction, he explained, was achieved as ...