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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 ...

The Captain of the Ghana senior national football team Asamoah Gyan paid for the Black Stars chartered flight all expenses back to Ghana after the Congo game on Tuesday. The Black Stars apparently traveled to Congo to honour the return leg of the 2018 Worldcup qualify game with Congo on a commercial flight which kept the team stranded for close ...

The Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) has cast doubt over the Friday deadline given by the government for the release of funds for the Free SHS policy. This comes after the government failed to honour a promise to release money to Heads of Schools two weeks to the reopening of schools. Schools reopen in 5 days’ time, ...

The government has cited the Minority MPs for conscious, systematic efforts designed to create negative public sentiments against especially the Finance Minister. According to Deputy Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the National Democratic Congress Members of Parliament in a series of news conferences, have consistently levelled unsubstantiated allegations against Mr. Ken Ofori-Atta and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration. The ...

Member of Parliament for Buem in the Volta Region, Hon Daniel Ashiamah has accused the ruling New Patriotic Party of orchestrating ways to restrict the number of people to be admitted into the free senior high school program. According to him, the change in the placement system where students who were not placed are to do manual selection from a ...