POLITICS

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said his government will definitely find a way to make the Free Senior High School programme sustainable. “This programme is a very important one and we will find ways to sustain it,” the President said when he spoke at a dinner on Sunday in New York. The Minority and the opposition National Democratic Congress have expressed ...

The Convention People’s Party (CPP) has refuted suggestions by the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) that the country has more than one founder, insisting that Dr. Kwame Nkrumah is the only founder of Ghana. This was in response to moves by President Nana Akufo-Addo, who has proposed legislation to Parliament to designate 4th August as Founders Day, and 21st September ...

The Opposition National Democratic Congress, (NDC) will on Thursday shake the streets of the capital city, Accra with the second face of its Unity walk. The latest unity walk comes on the back of the success of a similar walk organized by the party in Tamale in the Northern region of Ghana. The second edition forms part of the party’s ...

The MP for Ofoase-Ayirebi, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, has awarded scholarship to 200 students in his constituency. The scholarship will supplement government’s newly launched Free Senior High School Education programme being enjoyed by the current first year students in public second cycle institutions. The Education and Skills Development Programme committee in the constituency received over a 1000 applications, but 200 students from ...

Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr has commended President Akufo Addo for giving a ‘very matured’ speech at the launch of the free SHS policy. President Akufo-Addo during the launch of the free SHS programme at the West African Secondary School (WASS) at Adenta in Accra on Tuesday urged politicians to take politicking out of the free ...

The Member Parliament for Prestea Huni-Valley Constituency(PHC), who doubles as the Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Lawyer Mrs. Barbara Oteng-Gyasi has clarified that she never said small scale miners at Aboso should go and plant cassava. Speaking at Prestea Workers Club conference in Prestea on September 11, 2017, to over six hundred people, mostly small scale miners and ...

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has described the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) sales agreement reached between the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) and GAZPROM as “positive” and “one that is going to play a very important role in the economic life of Ghana.” According to him, the decision taken by GAZPROM, the world’s largest natural gas ...

Founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Jerry John Rawlings, believes his party must redeem its image in the eyes of Ghanaians if it is to stand a chance in 2020 elections. Coming off its comprehensive defeat in the 2016 elections, Mr. Rawlings said a cleanup and the “restoration of our integrity” is paramount. “We don’t like to hear it, ...

Education Minister, Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has justified the decision of the Ministry to sack some heads of Senior High Schools and interdict others. Their actions, according to the Minister, was necessitated by the decision of these heads of Second Cycle institutions to impose some fees on first-year students and in some cases, turn students away without consulting the Ministry. A ...

The Minister of State in charge of Tertiary Education, Prof. Kwesi Yankah, has said he wrote the title song for government’s education policy – Free SHS. He, however, adds that the song was composed by Varrick Armah who put together the popular gospel tune Oye. The second stanza of the free SHS song reads “The time has come for children ...