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Deputy Finance Minister, Abena Osei-Asare, has given assurance that government is ready to disburse the funds to allow the smooth implementation of the free senior high school policy. She said the Ministry had finalised preparations to credit the accounts of 647 public SHS and was waiting for the Ministry of Education to provide them with numbers placed in every school, ...

A deputy Commissioner of Customs Service Richard Yaotse has apologised for the challenges that have plagued the implementation of the paperless system at the country’s ports. Officials of the service Thursday had a torrid time controlling frustrated clearing agents at the Tema port four days into the implementation of the system as some were yet to get clearance for their ...

The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has asked the Brong Ahafo Regional Youth Organizer of the New Patriotic Party Kwame Baffoe popularly known as Abronye to report to their office to answer questions to some allegations he levelled against JOSPONG group on tow levy. According to them, he is yet to honour an invitation extended to him by the ...

The International Monetary Fund has been petitioned by a group calling itself the Progressive Alliance Media Communicators (PAMC) over what they describe as painful developments in the financial market in Ghana. According to the group, “the government of Ghana since 7th January, 2017 has been undermining the tenets of corporate governance in almost all its activities” under the watch of ...

A former Deputy Education Minister says the Akufo-Addo government’s flagship Free senior high school (SHS) policy will not stand the test of time. Samuel Okdujeto Ablakwa says the Akuffo Addo government cannot find the money to continue supporting the programme which makes it unsustainable. “What is clear to me is that government is going to struggle to find the money. ...

Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, yesterday failed to honour the invitation of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service to give a statement on allegation of corruption he had purportedly leveled against some unnamed officials at the Flagstaff House and Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Communications Minister. Mr Agyapong and controversial musician and satirist, Kwame Asare ...

Information available to DAILY GUIDE indicates that the Electoral Commission (EC) paid huge sums of money to telecommunication service providers for the transmission of the 2016 election results. The commission is said to have spent a whopping GH¢11,952,894.50 on the Election Results Management System (ERMS) alone. An EC Audit Observation Memorandum indicated that four major mobile telephony service providers pocketed ...

Exton Cubic Company Ltd whose lease to mine bauxite has been cancelled, says it wants to sit down with government to resolve disagreements. The company insists the cancellation is unfair, arbitrary and illegal and wants the President, Nana Akufo-Addo, an avowed believer in the rule of law, to intervene. Communications Officer, Samuel Gyamfi, was on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show, ...

Former Attorney General and anti-corruption campaigner, Martin Amidu has said he has not received any official communication from the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee of Parliament to his appear before the committee and contribute to the Bill setting up the office of the Special Prosecutor. The Chairman of the Committee, Ben Abdallah on Eyewitness News on Wednesday said Mr. Amidu ...

The General Secretary of National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), Mr Angel Kabonu, has urged both parents and the general public to hold onto their criticisms on the implementation of ‘Free SHS’ and wait to see the outcome of the policy. Free SHS education has been one of the top priorities of the ruling New Patriotic party (NPP) government as ...