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The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) will officially roll out its flagship free senior high Sschool (SHS) educational programme with a launch on Tuesday, September 12, 2017. But the Founder and 2016 Presidential Candidate of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, has observed that the free SHS programme currently under implementation by the NPP is not consistent ...

With the implementation of the Free Senior High School Policy, government will by the end of 2019 scrap the northern scholarship intervention and replace it with “a more enhanced benefit and more comprehensive package,” Registrar of the Scholarship Secretariat Kingsley Agyemang hinted at a news conference in Tamale on Tuesday. Northern Scholarship was a deliberate colonial era policy instituted to ...

James Kwabena Bomfeh, a youth activist, has withdrawn a petition he filed against Assin Central MP, Ken Agyapong, citing Parliament’s lack of interest in the matter. On 19th April, 2017, Mr. Bomfeh petitioned Parliament “to cause an inquiry into certain reckless and reprehensible conduct of the Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Hon. Kennedy Agyapong.” However, the petitioner is convinced ...

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has dismissed claims by the minority in Parliament that he breached the country’s financial rules when he approved a loan facility from ADB to McDan Shipping Company Limited. The Minority on Tuesday accused Mr. Ofori-Atta of usurping the authority of the board of ADB in the approval of a loan facility to Mc Dan Shipping ...

A forthcoming report by the global research and consultancy firm Oxford Business Group (OBG) will chart Ghana’s efforts to enhance its investment environment through a raft of incentives and reforms. The Report: Ghana 2018 will explore the new administration’s bid to promote industrialisation, especially in the manufacturing segment, where a drive to boost capacity is under way. The key role ...

Controversial Hiplife Artiste and staunch supporter of President Akufo-Addo, Kwame Asare Obeng, also known as A Plus says the allegation of corruption he levelled against the two Deputy Chiefs of Staff, Samuel Abu Jinapor and Francis Asenso-Boakye has nothing to do with bribery. According to him, Ghanaians should not skew his corruption allegation against the duo to mean that they ...

There is a scramble across the country over senior high school placement as more than 36,000 Junior High School (JHS) graduates compete for limited space. At least 36,849 JHS graduates who took part in this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) missed placement to available SHSs. The Ghana Education Service (GES) had explained the students, representing 8 percent of the ...

Government has cancelled the mining lease awarded to Exton Cubic Group limited. The move follows investigations by the Lands and Natural Resources Ministry over controversy surrounding the deal. Exton cubic has been in the spot light for some weeks following agitations by the youth of Nynahini over a bauxite concession leased to the company by the previous government. The Environmental ...

The Interior Minister Ambrose Dery has ordered the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to immediately institute measures to bring to book a police officer accused of raping a 22-year-old lady. The 22-year-old who was allegedly raped by the Police officer identified as Corporal Edem Kelvin Sampson, with the Airport Police Division, is still seeking justice one year after the ghastly ...

Government has appealed to parents across the country to remain calm as it takes steps to ensure all BECE candidates duly qualified are placed in senior high schools. Many parents have complained about the placement exercise despite their children meeting the qualification criteria. Some of the students who had grades that qualifies them for their first choice schools were rather ...