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Former Council of State Member, Nii Amoo Darko has asked for a review of the Free Senior High School policy implemented by the New Patriotic Party under President Akufo-Addo. Speaking to Nuong Faalong on Hot Issues on TV3 which airs Saturday 12:30 pm, he said it was not fair to have affluent parents on the scheme. This, Rev. Amoo Darko who is also a member of the Peace council believes, makes the rich to unduly compete with poorer people who need the financial relief. According to him, the current implementation of the policy is problematic and the relevant stakeholders need…

The Technical Universities Teachers’ Association of Ghana (TUTAG) has described as misleading claims made by the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) on negotiations so far. The Commission on Thursday said the lecturers showed bad faith by declaring strike after series of negotiations, which saw them all migrated onto the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS) effective August, 2019. TUTAG declared an indefinite strike on Monday, October 7, demanding a wholesale migration of lecturers onto the same salary scheme enjoyed by teachers of other public universities. They adduced that since the conversion of some polytechnics into technical universities in 2016, government…

A publicity committee for the 2020 population and housing census, chaired by Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has been inaugurated by government. In his inaugural address, Mr Oppong Nkrumah stressed the importance of publicity for a successful census and charged the Ghana Statistical Service and its stakeholders to work together to drive the population to buy into the Census programme and avail themselves to provide the needed information to guide policymaking in Ghana Ghana like any other developing nation, has been very conscious of the benefits of censuses and its importance to national development. He said countries all over the…

The Political Science Students’ Association (POSSA) has jumped to the defence of suspended senior lecturer of the University of Ghana, Prof Ransford Yaw Gyampo, who was cited in a BBC alleging sex-for-grade exposé. Prof Gyampo, who is the head of the Centre for European Studies, has vehemently denied the supposed sex for grade and allegation of sexually harassing a lady the BBC planted to lure him. Notwithstanding,  he and one other lecturer cited in the expose have since been interdicted by authorities of the University of Ghana, which has commenced an investigation into the allegations. BBC “a rogue media” Commenting…

The Executive Chairman of Jospong Group of Companies, Dr Joseph Siaw Agyepong, has led a 12-man delegation to participate in the 2019 Budapest Water Summit organised by the Hungarian government. World leaders, politicians, bankers, businessmen, inventors and scientists met at the summit to discuss challenges of emerging water crises and their social, economic, environmental and political consequences. The event was themed “Preventing Water Crises”. Dr Siaw Agyepong was part of a high-level panel that discussed the theme for the event. He joined panellists from European Investment Bank, Middle East Desalination Research Centre, Global Water Partnership World Bank Group and the…

Government has appealed to road contractors across the country to return to their respective project sites and resume construction work as it secures 2.2 billion cedis to defray part of arrears owed them. “Disbursement has already started,” the Roads and Highways said in a statement Thursday, stating it will continue for a month by which time the payment is expected to be completed. Out of the total amount of 2.2 billion cedis, government said 1 billion cedis will be paid to contractors funded through the consolidated fund while 1.2 billion will be paid to contactors funded from the Ghana Road…

Some law graduates who failed the Ghana School of Law entrance examination have sued the General Legal Council (GLC) seeking a review of their results or remarking of the examination papers. Of the 1,820 LLB graduates who sat the exam on July 26 this year, only 128 passed to get admission to pursue the professional law course. Critics have argued the GLC deliberately fail candidates to limit the number of admissions into the Ghana School of Law due to limited vacancies. Though some of the failed candidates doubt the fairness in the results, they are unable to seek remarking of…

Even after viewing skeletons that police DNA results confirmed as those of the girls who were declared missing in Takoradi late last year, the family members are still not convinced about the bones being that of their relatives. The family members bused to Accra from Takoradi to view the skeletal remains Thursday, appeared more incensed with a growing mistrust for the police. Shouting on top of his voice amidst intermittent sobbing, a man identified to be a family member of one of the girls, said one does not need any scientific examination to tell that the skeletons shown them are…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo wants Russia-Ghana relation moved beyond export and import of raw materials to increase in trade and investment cooperation. “This, we believe, is the way to develop healthy relations between our two countries. Our vision is to build a free, prosperous country, a Ghana Beyond Aid, as a dynamic component of an independent and prosperous Africa,” the President said. He said this while delivering a statement at the Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi on October 24, 2019, being held on the theme “For Peace, Security and Development”. He indicated that “for us, in Ghana, our resolve is…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo wants Russia-Ghana relation moved beyond export and import of raw materials to increase in trade and investment cooperation. “This, we believe, is the way to develop healthy relations between our two countries. Our vision is to build a free, prosperous country, a Ghana Beyond Aid, as a dynamic component of an independent and prosperous Africa,” the President said. He said this while delivering a statement at the Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi on October 24, 2019, being held on the theme “For Peace, Security and Development”. He indicated that “for us, in Ghana, our resolve is…