POLITICS

Ghana is one of 12 countries participating in a summit dubbed “Global Disability Summit” – a ground breaking event to transform the lives of persons with disabilities in developing countries. The Summit which opens on Monday July 23 in London, UK, will cover a range of different issues relating to the inclusion of people with disabilities. Ghana’s Minister of Gender, ...

Veteran educationist, Professor Stephen Adei has lauded the multi–track system expected to be introduced into the Senior High School system in September. The Dean of Arts and Sciences at Ashesi University said there is overcrowding in most of the High Schools and the proposed system is a very laudable one which will help to cure the issue. “When I heard ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said from September 2018, Government will implement the double intake system for new entrants into the country’s public Senior High Schools, which will address the growing numbers of students benefitting from the Free SHS policy. According to President Akufo-Addo, the 2018/2019 academic year will see a 31% increase in the population of new students ...

The Member of Parliament for Assin Central constituency, Kennedy Agyapong, is expected to reappear before Parliament’s Privileges Committee today over his purported contemptuous utterances against the House. This will be the committee’s second public hearing on the alleged contemnor’s case. The first hearing ended inconclusively after some members of the committee recused themselves for reasons of possible bias. The three ...

The campaign team of Dr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah has asked all and sundry to disregard “false claims” that the politician will not contest the presidential primary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in November. The team described as “outlandish” reports that he will no longer put himself up for election. This comes on the back of a media publication attributed to ...

Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has dismissed claims that Otiko Afisa-Djaba has been indicted by the 2017 Auditor-General’s Report. The Ministry described such reports as mischievous and erroneous that has damaged the ‘name of the hard-earned reputation of the Minister’. Otiko Afisah Djaba was mentioned alongside Finance Minister, Ofori-Atta, and Ignatius Baffour Awuah, Employment and Labour Relations Minister ...

Member of Parliament for Ajumako Enyan Essiam and Ranking Member of the Finance Committee in Parliament, Cassiel Ato Forson, has jabbed Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta, accusing him of playing games with GDP growth figures. The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta, presenting the 2018 mid-year budget, noted that provisional first-quarter GDP estimates indicate that real GDP grew by 6.8 percent ...

The family of the late former Vice President, Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur, has announced the final burial and funeral rites for the deceased statesman. As per the final arrangements, Mr Amissah-Arthur will be laid in state at the foyer of the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC) on Thursday, July 26. Filing past for the general public on that day will ...

Construction of an airport in the Upper East region is about to take place at Sherigu in the regional capital, Bolgatanga, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced. Addressing traditional authorities and residents of the Bongo District at a durbar Thursday as part of his two-day working tour of the region, the President said the region would see “signs of ...

The Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Prof. Kwabena Frimpong Boateng has rejected accusations that the government is insensitive to the plight of fisher folks with the ban on fishing at sea. Government announced a closed season for all fishing activities in the ocean as part of measures to improve the country’s dwindling fish stock. The directive which kicks ...