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Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Member of Parliament for North Tongu and former Deputy Minister of Education, has extolled the Akufo-Addo-led government for the implementation of the Free Senior High School programme. According to him, the programme is a tough initiative, for which reason the government must be commended. The Free SHS programme, which is the government’s flagship policy started on Monday, ...

None Performing Loans (NPLs) will be one of the biggest beneficiaries of the rise in minimum capital requirement. The development has been the bane of the Ghanaian financial sector for about a decade. The Bank of Ghana raised the minimum capital requirement to GH¢400 million, equivalent to about US$100 million. Commercial banks in the country have up to December 2018 ...

The Management and Staff of the Ghana News Agency announces with deep sorrow the sudden death of Nana Kodjo Jekrahuda Jehu-Appiah, a Chief Editor and Head of the Home Desk. Nana Kojo Jehu-Appiah died on September 11 whilst on admission at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital after a short illness. Nana Kojo is a trained journalist, who attended the University of ...

The Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has disclosed that, in making sure the Free SHS policy does not run into challenges, government will always ensure that pay 20% of fees for beneficiaries is disbursed in advance before every term begins. Basic and second cycle schools in Ghana usually have three terms within every academic year. Speaking at the ...

President Akufo-Addo has revealed his government will resort to “proceeds from natural resources” to fund the free Senior High School policy. The policy is to ensure that every student eligible to enter second cycle institution gains admission with free meal and tuition. “To ensure that no child is denied access to secondary education, we are removing one of the biggest ...

President and Chairman of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) in the 2016 election has cautioned government against over politicisation of the Free Senior High School (SHS) programme. According to Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, this is to ensure the sustainability of the programme after the exit of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration. More than eight years after it was publicised ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo says the decision to implement the Free SHS policy was not influenced by a desire to score political points, but by the need to offer opportunities for Ghanaians, especially the deprived and marginalised. “The Free Senior High School policy continues to be controversial; some people are determined to make politics out of it. “For me, it is ...

The Police Criminal Investigative Department has interrogated Joy News’ Manasseh Azure Awuni, the architect behind robbing the Assemblies investigations. He was interrogated not as a complainant or suspect. He was just to assist the police with information on details of an investigation that has grabbed major news headlines Accompanied by a team of lawyers and some colleagues, Manasseh Azure Awuni ...

Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia is taunting the minority in parliament over their attacks on the government’s education policy –Free SHS – which will be launched today by the President. The minority has said the funding mechanism for the program is not sustainable. They are also demanding a blueprint for the policy, which was a major campaign message for President Akufo-Addo ...

Caterers in the Upper East Region say they will resist any attempt by the Ministry of Gender Children and Social Protection to impose on them rice that cost GH¢180 per bag for the school feeding programme. At an orientation workshop for caterers in Upper East Region held in Bolgatanga, a nutritionist with the Ghana School Feeding Programme, Louisa Adda, hinted ...