Newsfile On JoyNews (18-2-2017)
This week’s edition of Newsfile focused on the free SHS policy which begins in September. On February 11, President Akufo-Addo announced that government will fully implement the free Senior High...
Tag: Heritage Fund
Osafo Maafo Was Thinking Aloud In Heritage Fund Comment – Akomea
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has maintained no absolute decision has been taken to use the Heritage Fund to finance the free senior high school (SHS) programme. NPP Director of...
Nothing Wrong With Heritage Fund For Free SHS – Mustapha Hamid
Using the Heritage Fund to invest in government’s free Senior High School policy would be in line with the purpose for setting up the fund, the Minister of Information, Mustapha Hamid has said. The...
Prioritise Use of Resources – Bokpin Tells Government
The Head of the Finance Department at the University of Ghana Business School, Prof Godfred Bokpin, has charged government to set priorities right to ensure that the country’s resources are...
Nana Addo Must Clean On Funding For Free SHS – Minority
The Minority in Parliament has impressed on President Nana Akufo-Addo to clarify if his New Patriotic Party government will be using the Heritage Fund to fund the Senior High School policy following...
Nothing Wrong With Heritage Fund For Free SHS
Using the Heritage Fund to invest in government’s free Senior High School policy would be in line with the purpose for setting up the fund, the Minister of Information, Mustapha Hamid has said. The...
Nana Addo Must Clean On Funding For Free SHS
The Minority in Parliament has impressed on President Nana Akufo-Addo to clarify if his New Patriotic Party government will be using the Heritage Fund to fund the Senior High School policy following...
What Osafo Marfo Really Said
During question time at the recently held Graphic Business/Stanbic Bank Breakfast Meeting at the Labadi Beach Hotel on the theme: A Public-Private Dialogue On Stability, Growth and Jobs, Senior...
Hold Your Peace For Budget To Be Read – Kwarteng
New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP on Parliament’s Finance Committee says the NPP government will unveil a comprehensive financing plan covering its much-talked-about free Senior High School (SHS)...
What Osafo Maafo Really Said
During question time at the recently held Graphic Business/Stanbic Bank Breakfast Meeting at the Labadi Beach Hotel on the theme: A Public-Private Dialogue On Stability, Growth and Jobs, Senior...
Invest In Education, Reserving Money For Future ‘needless’
Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr. has expressed disappointment in opponents of the government’s decision to use the Heritage Fund to implement President Nana Akufo-Addo...
Free SHS: Nobody Is Going To Use Heritage Fund
Acting General Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu has dismissed claims that the government would definitely use the Heritage Fund to implement its free Senior High...
Funding Contradictions Worrying – Fiifi Kwetey
The inconsistency on the part of government officials with regards to the source of funding for the Free Senior High School programme is disturbing, Fiifi Kwetey, a former Minister of Transport, has...
Akufo-Addo Must Come Clean On Free SHS/Heritage Fund Saga – Minority
The minority members in parliament have asked President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to come clean on whether his government intends to use proceeds from the reserved oil revenue to finance its much...
Come Clear On Free SHS Funding
The Minority in parliament has charged President Nana Akufo-Addo to clarify “whether his government will use or not use the Heritage Fund for SHS education”. This was contained in a press release...
We’ve ‘enough Resources’ For Free SHS
Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has said the Akufo-Addo government has ample resources to bankroll its Free Senior High School policy without needing to touch the Heritage Fund. “We are financing...
Group Welcomes U-Turn On Financing Free SHS With Heritage Fund
A civil society group in the oil sector has welcomed government’s decision not to use the Heritage Fund to finance its proposed free Senior High School programme. An endowment reserve, the Fund,...
Otabil, Adei Dine With Ofori-Atta Over 2017 Budget
Finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta has revealed that he has met up with the ICGC founder Dr. Mensa Otabil and other high profile Ghanaians as he prepares for his budget presentation in Parliament next...
Otabil, Adei Dine With Ofori-Atta Over 2017 Budget
Finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta has revealed that he has met up with the ICGC founder Dr. Mensa Otabil and other high profile Ghanaians as he prepares for his budget presentation in Parliament next...
Minority Scared of Free SHS
Legislators of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will resist every attempt by the Akufo-Addo government to implement social intervention programmes such as Free Senior High School because...