POLITICS

The Health Ministry has confirmed that it engaged middlemen in a bid to purchase Sputnik V vaccines after the failure of the government of Ghana to get the vaccines directly from the Russian government. A statement by the Ministry of Ghana also confirmed that the price for the Sputnik vaccines was pegged at $19 instead of $10 due to transport ...

The Minority Leader of Parliament, Hon. Haruna Iddrisu, Hon. Alhassan Suhuyini and other members of the minority in parliament have complained of the unjustifiable and undue delay by the Government in constituting governing boards of certain statutory bodies and corporations affected by the Presidential (Transition) Act, 2012 (Act 845) which has seriously impacted on the discharge of the constitutional functions ...

President Akufo-Addo has launched a one hundred and forty-five million Ghana cedis (GHc 145,000,000.00) grant fund to support micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) as part of the government’s efforts to help MSMEs recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their businesses. Speaking at the official launch of the Ghana Enterprises Agency (GEA), an agency of the Ministry ...

Government has called on Ghanaians to rally behind its Green Ghana initiative as it plans to re-green Ghana and protect the country’s forest reserves. The Green Ghana Day which is slated for June 11, 2021, is a national effort at planting more than 5 million trees in a single day to preserve and protect the country’s forest cover and the ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has assured the Government and people of Burkina Faso of the commitment of the regional body towards winning the fight against terrorism and violent extremism. Commiserating with President Roch Marc Christian Kabore on Wednesday, 9th June 2021, in Ouagadougou, following the killing of some one hundred and sixty (160) people on Sunday by unknown militants, ...

The Africa Education Watch has asked Education Minister Yaw Adutwum to stop the use of teachers for the upcoming census. According to the outfit, using teachers will adversely affect academic work. The education think-tank said the use of the teachers for the census will result in the loss of some twenty-one days of teachers’ time on tasks, apart from their ...

State Transport Corporation CEO, Nana Akomea says the overcrowding at the late Sir John’s funeral should be a learning curve for the nation. According to him, it is regrettable that the crowd couldn’t be controlled and made to follow the COVID-19 safety protocols. Sir John, known in real life as Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, passed away in July 2020 after contracting ...

The Appointments Committee of Parliament has suspended the approval of Mr Andrew Egyapa Mercer as a Deputy Energy Minister nominee. Class News’ parliamentary correspondent, Charles Akrofi, reported on Tuesday, 8 June 2021, that sources within the Committee say the Minority side proposed the suspension of Mr Mercer’s approval because they wanted to clearly understand his position on the PDS deal. ...

The Institute for Education Studies (IFEST) has commended the Ministry of Education for its proposal to introduce a National Standards Assessment Test (NSAT) and implement it this year. IFEST believes that tracking students’ performance in addition to monitoring the fidelity of the implementation of a standards-based curriculum is key to ensuring an improvement in learning outcomes. NSAT, according to IFEST, ...

A five-member panel of the Supreme Court has said there is “no subsisting order” preventing #fixtheCountry protesters to apply for demonstration. The Supreme court in its ruling said the indefinite order that stops the applicants from demonstrating is quashed. The court added that the High Court exceeded its jurisdiction when it gave that definite order restricting the applicants from demonstrating. ...