POLITICS

Nursing trainees in three training colleges in the Upper East Region, have thanked President Nana Akufo-Addo for the restoration of their allowances. Hundreds of the trainees held a procession on some principal streets of Bolgatanga with placards conveying their gratitude. Speaking to Citi News, the trainee nurses said the restoration of their allowances is helping them to pay their schools ...

The Deputy Executive Secretary of the National Service Scheme, Nana Boakye popularly known as Nana B has urged executives of The Tertiary Students Confederacy Network of the New Patriotic Party (TESCON) to ensure that party members are employed before others. According to him, TESCON members have struggled for the party and contributed to its election victory, hence the need to ...

Former Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, under the National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration Joseph Yamin, has accused President Akufo-Addo of attempting to please the homosexual community into sponsoring the Free SHS Programme, which is facing funding problem. His claims comes after President Akufo-Addo gave subtle hint that his government could legalize homosexuality when there’s a strong push for it. In an ...

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has stated that contrary to the assertions being made by his political opponents about the sustainability of the Free Senior High School policy, the policy is here to stay and will be sustained. According to President Akufo-Addo, “the politically motivated propagandists and naysayers, who, in the last few years, said that Free SHS was ...

Ghana today – at least on the surface – is enjoying political stability, with a multiethnic population coming together in peaceful democratic elections. President Nana Akufo-Addo speaks with Al Jazeera’s Jane Dutton on why his country is so different from its neighbours in this respect – and what work still remains to be done in Ghana and in the rest ...

Government has been urged to accept criticisms of the implemented free Senior High School (SHS) policy or swallow its pride and scrap the policy that has been inundated with several challenges. There have been complaints from school heads that the programme has been characterized by a litany of challenges including poor feeding, lack of accommodation and inadequate number of furniture ...

The Akufo Addo led-government is to borrow an amount of $40 million from the International Development Association (IDA) as additional financing for the Ghana Secondary School Education Improvement Project. The Financing Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Ghana and the IDA for an amount equivalent to Twenty-eight million, nine hundred thousand Special Rights (SDR 28,900,000 [US$40.0 million equivalent] ...

The Majority Leader in Parliament, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, will be honoured for 20 years of meritorious service to his constituency, Suame, and the nation at large. Under the auspices of the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the event to be held on Sunday, November 26, 2017, at the Bremang Park in Kumasi, is expected to have in attendance President Nana ...

Lawyers for Ibrahim Mahama, owner of Exton Cubic Group Limited-, a mining company exploring bauxite at Nyinahin in the Ashanti Region – have filed an application for judicial review at an Accra High Court over the revocation of his mining licences by the Lands and Natural Resources Minister. Ibrahim is challenging the revocation of the mining lease granted by his ...

Former deputy Education Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has called on government to revise upwards the monies allocated to the Free SHS program in the 2018 budget. The North Tongu MP is of the view that the current allocation which is little over GHS1billion is woefully inadequate for the program. The government in the 2018 budget earmarked some GH¢1.2billion to the ...