Napo’s Threats ‘unfortunate’ – NAGRAT
Comments by the Minister of Education that head teachers of basic and second cycle schools would be sacked should more than 90 percent of their students fail the Basic Education Certificate...
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AFAG To Government
The government must set up a Senior High School Fund that will become a permanent and sustainable source of funding for the Akufo-Addo government’s Free Senior High School, pressure group Alliance...
Use ABFA – Expert To Govt
If the idea to use the Heritage Fund to finance the Free Senior High School programme would be problematic, the government could fall on other sources such as the Annual Budget Funding Amount (ABFA)...
We’ll Make Life Good For PWDs
The Akufo-Addo-led government will implement the 3 per cent increase in the Common Fund for Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) as a way of ensuring that they receive the needed resources to make life...
NDC Should Concentrate On Reviewing Their Election Loss – Otiko Djaba
Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Otiko Afisa Djaba has counselled members of the National Democratic Congress to mind their party affairs after they lost the 2016 general...
Introduce Resources You Promised; Don’t Touch Heritage Fund – Kofi Buah To NPP
Former Petroleum Minister, Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah has dared the NPP to fund the Free SHS project from the resources they pledged to introduce when they assume power and desist from touching monies...
Free SHS: No Decision Has Been Taken To Use Heritage Fund
A New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP on Parliament’s Finance Committee says government has not taken any definite decision to use the Heritage Fund to finance the free senior high school (SHS) policy....
‘Diverted Oil Cash’ Forfeited To Nigerian Govt
A court on Thursday ordered $153.3 million allegedly diverted by Nigeria's former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke from the state-run oil firm to be handed over to the government. Judge Muslim...
Kofi Adams Cleared of Stealing 5 State Vehicles
Investigations have established the five vehicles seized from the National Orgainser of the National Democratic Congress, Kofi Adams, are his personal property and not for the State as suspected. The...
Take Hands Off Heritage Fund – Minority
The Minority in Parliament has said it will resist the use of the Ghana Heritage Fund to bankroll the Akufo-Addo government’s Free Senior High School programme scheduled to start in September this...
Two More Arrested Over Deadly Bimbilla Clashes
Two more people have been arrested in the Bimbilla Township in connection with the clashes that led to the death of 10 people including women and children last week. Renewed chieftaincy clashes in...
Air Peace Starts Accra-Lagos Route
Competition on the Accra –Lagos flight route has been intensified with an additional airline operating effective today (February 16, 2017). The Nigerian owned Air Peace which operates an intra-city...
Two More Arrested Over Deadly Bimbilla Clashes
Two more people have been arrested in the Bimbilla Township in connection with the clashes that led to the death of 10 people including women and children last week. Renewed chieftaincy clashes in...
Education Minister Urges Calm Among KTI Students
The Minister of Education, Matthew Opoku Prempeh has urged students of the Kumasi Technical Institute (KTI), to remain calm as investigations into a recent clash with the Police is conducted. He also...
Akufo-Addo Use of Heritage Fund Inconceivable, Fatal – Haruna Iddrisu
Minority leader, Haruna Iddrisu says government’s decision to tap into reserved oil revenue known as Heritage Fund to finance its free senior high school (SHS) policy would be fatal for Ghana’s...
Napo Calls For Transfer of “lying” Police Chiefs
Education Minister, Mathew Opoku-Prempeh has called for the transfer of the Public Relations Officer of the Ashanti regional command, ASP Yussif Tanko and head of Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT)...
Funding Free SHS With Heritage Fund A ‘sensible Idea’ – Kwesi Pratt
The Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr has described as a ‘sensible idea’ proposals to use percentages of the Heritage Fund to fund the free Senior High School (SHS)...
How It Went Down At First Public Hearing
How It Went Down at First Public hearing of the Probing Committee on Ayariga’s Claims Parliament’s special probing committee set up to investigate into Ayariga’s bribery claims controversy...
We Support Government Use of Heritage Funds For Free SHS
Pressure group Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG) says it is in support of the Akufo-Addo-led government using the Heritage Fund to execute the free senior high school (SHS) programme. The...
Ghana Spent $450,000 To Transport Troops To The Gambia
Minister of Defense, Dominic Nitiwul has revealed that it cost the country 450,000 US dollars to transport troops that supported the ECOWAS forces during the precarious situation in The Gambia. About...