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The future of the Free Senior High School policy is bleak because of the manner it is being handled by the current government, the Executive Secretary of the Institute for Education Studies (IFEST-Ghana) has predicted. Dr Peter Partey Anti adduced that the policy is not sustainable. “The future is bleak. The future is bleak because [the Free SHS Policy] is ...

Former Rector of the Ghana Institue of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) Professor Stephen Adei has said that he is an avid supporter of the free senior high school (Free SHS) programme. As a beneficiary of free education during the Nkrumah era, he said, every Ghanaian should be able to access education up to the high school level and not ...

Former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) Professor Stephen Adei has dismissed assertions that the introduction of the Free Senior High School Policy is the cause of the current economic problems. He says no one should ever point to the Policy as the cause of the current crisis. “The Free SHS is not the cause ...

The Coalition of Transport Union and Association(CTUA) has issued a warning that transport fares could rise by 20 percent if the government does not eliminate certain taxes included in the petroleum price structure. The coalition is demanding the removal of both the sanitation and pollution levy and the energy sector levy. These measures are aimed at alleviating the undue burden ...

The Akufo-Addo government has not demonstrated seriousness to the fight against corruption, former General Secretary of the Ghana Christian Council, Rev Dr Kwabena Opuni Frimpong, has said. Similarly, he said past governments did not show any commitment to fighting graft. Speaking about a recent admonishing by Senior Presidential Advisor Yaw Osafo Maafo to the church about festering corruption and illegal ...

The Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security (CPAPS), for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Dr Abdel-Fatau Musa, has said that ECWOAS has thought of the possible impact of sending troops to Niger on foreign nations in that country. He recognized that there are several foreign nationals, some fo whom are refugees in Niger. Dr Musa assured ...

Former Minister of Communications Dr Edward Omane Boamah has said any decision by the government of Ghana to support the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) with troops to tackle the coup situation in Niger will show that the sufferings of Ghanaians are because of poor priorities of the government. Ghana’s Parliament is reported to have thrown its weight ...

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Asutifi South, Mr Collins Dauda, has called for an end to discrimination against people bearing Northern names during voter registration exercises. Speaking at the 40th-anniversary celebration of the enskinment of the head of the Wangara tribe in the Ashanti Region, he said some people bearing northern names always face challenges during voter registration exercises. ...

The Member of Parliament for Nsawam-Adoagyiri, Mr Frank Annoh-Dompreh, has said he has absolutely nothing to do with the removal of a billboard advert of New Patriotic Party flag bearer aspirant Kennedy Agyapong contrary to the avalanche of social media accusations levelled against him as the brain behind it. He told the parliamentary press corps that he first heard of ...

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is in a pole position to sweep the votes in Saturday’s super delegates conference of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the Centre for Sustainable African Development Initiatives, UK, has predicted. A report by the group, following a survey on the outcome of the conference and who is likely to make the Top 5, revealed that ...