Co-chair of the Ghana Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative (GHEITI) Dr. Emmanuel Steve Asare Manteaw, who is also a member of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC), has said...
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has suggested that Ghana’s Heritage Fund be used as collateral to help support Ghanaian industries. The Fund is a creation under the Petroleum Revenue...
A decade after oil discovery! The bold steps, the mistakes, the lessons, and the future When Ghana discovered hydrocarbons in commercial quantities a decade ago in 2007 under the erstwhile Kufour...
A decade after oil discovery: The bold steps, mistakes, lessons, and the future The country appeared to have lost momentum following the 2009 political transition When Ghana discovered hydrocarbons...
A member of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC), Dr Steve Manteaw, is urging the government to shift from covering every cost under its Free Senior High School (SHS) policy to...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was at the 90th anniversary of the Krobo Girls’ Senior High School in the Eastern Region over the weekend, shedding further light on the free education...
A policy analyst with the Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC) Dr. Steve Manteaw has urged government to redesign the sinking fund to sponsor its ambitious free Senior High School policy....
An outspoken member of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC), Dr. Steve Manteaw has cautioned Ghana’s crude oil managers against hedging the product at the international markets....
An outspoken member of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC), Dr. Steve Manteaw has cautioned Ghana’s crude oil managers against hedging the product at the international markets....
The Education Minister says the implementation of the President Nana Akufo-Addo's flagship campaign promise of free senior high school (SHS) which begins this September won't be smooth and easy....
The Minority in Parliament has lauded the performance of Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta in the presentation of Thursdays 2017 budget, describing it as propaganda free. Minority leader Haruna Iddrisu...
‘Value for money’ featured prominently in a presidential inaugural speech. On hearing heritage fund could rescue education from underfunding, my initial thinking was value for money. Education is...
The Country Director of SEND Ghana, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), Mr George Osei-Bimpeh, has urged the government to conduct an appropriate means test to clearly define those who have to...
Ghana’s minority members of parliament have described as “lofty rhetoric,” President Akufo-Addo’s maiden State of the Nation Address, arguing it fell short of solutions to fix the so-called...
The Minority in Parliament has passed a scathingly damning verdict on President Akufo-Addo’s maiden State of the Nation Address, describing it as “high on platitudes and short of substance.”...
The government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has sacked 525 national security operatives, Haruna Iddrisu, Minority Leader and Member of Parliament for Tamale South, has said. According to...
The Minority in Parliament has presented what they term, the true state of the nation address a day after President Akufo-Addo presented his maiden State of the Nation Address. Addressing the press...
Founder and Leader of the Independent People’s Party (IPP) is calling on President Akufo Adoo to increase Value Added Tax from the current 17.5% to 20% in order to have a sustainable means of...
By Frederick K. Kofi Tse “Our political class introduced something they call free education that is free indeed?free of knowledge. It is because they are so suspicious of those institutions that...
By: Theo Acheampong For most countries where near-universal primary school (primary and junior secondary) enrolment is high, there is the challenge of ensuring these children also get a secondary...
