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The Inspector General of Police, Mr. David Asante Apeatu, has paid a working visit to the Managing Director and Group Chief Executive of GOIL, Mr Patrick Akorli, for discussions on a number of issues. The visit was the first by a visiting IGP to the head-office of GOIL in Accra.Accompanying the IGP was DCOP Alex Amponsah Asiamah, Director-General in charge of Services and ASP Peter Adjei, ADC to the IGP.Also in attendance at the meeting were GOIL Chief Operating Officer, Alex Adzew, and Gyamfi Amanquah, Chief Operating Officer of GOenergy as well as some management members of the company.

The Minority in Parliament on Wednesday said it has been vindicated by government’s move to establish a special fund to support the Free Senior High School Policy. Mr Haruna Iddrisu, the Minority Leader and Member of Parliament for Tamale South, told the media that they had been vindicated based on their earlier concerns raised on funding gaps in the Policy if government was to rely on petroleum receipts alone. Mr Iddrisu was interacting with the media after Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, the Minister of Finance, presented the 2018 Budget and Economic Policy Statement to Parliament, in Accra. The Finance Minister told…

The founder of a university college in Ghana and campaigner to raise the quality of higher education in Africa has won a major global education award. Patrick Awuah left Ghana in the 1980s with “$50 in his pocket” to take up a scholarship in the US. But after a career with Microsoft, he returned to found Ashesi University College, and has now won the Wise Prize, worth $500,000 (£380,000). Mr Awuah said there was an “urgent need” to improve education in Africa. The prize, awarded at the World Innovation Summit for Education in the Gulf state of Qatar, was in…

The Member of Parliament for Yapei/Kusawgu Constituency in the Northern Region, John Abdulai Jinapor, has challenged government to remove the 17% tax component on electricity for residential consumers. He said the 13% reduction announced by the Finance Minister in the 2018 budget statement on Wednesday is woefully inadequate and would not be impactful if the tax is allowed to stay. The Yapei/Kusawgu MP was contributing to discussions on the 2018 budget on TV3’s New Day on Thursday. The Finance Minister had explained that the reduction is “to give relief to the poor whose individual consumption actually falls in the subsidised…

Zimbabweans are waiting to see what steps the military will take next after seizing control of the country. President Robert Mugabe is said to be under house arrest but the whereabouts of his wife Grace, who was bidding to succeed him as president, are unknown. South African ministers have been in the capital Harare meeting the army and political parties. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) regional bloc will hold emergency talks on Thursday. President Mugabe, 93, has been in control of Zimbabwe since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. But the power struggle over who might succeed him,…

Notwithstanding the barrage of infrastructural challenges, apprehensions and frustrations that characterised the implementation of Government’s free Senior High School (SHS) policy, the story has been that of joy and excitements for traders and hawkers at Assin in the Central Region. Before the implementation of the policy, the phenomenon of children hawkers selling sachet water (pure water), toffees among other items was a common sight. However, since the policy came into fruition barley two months ago, the major markets and commercial towns such as Assin Praso, Breku, Fosu, Akropong-Odumasi where many of them were plying their trade in the Assin North…

Farmers have welcomed government’s decision to establish a pension scheme purposely for farmers especially for those into cash crops to cater for their needs when they grow old. The government, since assuming office in less than a year has initiated some interventional policies in the agricultural sector to cushion and support farmers aimed at expanding the sector to achieve its vision of making Ghana the food basket of Africa. The initiatives includes Planting for Food and Jobs, One district One factory, One district One warehouse, and subsidization of fertilizers. The introduction of the pension scheme, according to the 2016 national best…

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has reiterated the commitment of his government to fulfilling all the promises made to the people of Ghana, in the run-up to the December 2016 elections. According to President Akufo-Addo, despite the difficult circumstances he inherited, his administration, this year, has begun to put in place policies and programmes for the realization his government’s programme. “I am very keen that, the promises that we made to the Ghanaian people, the pledges we made about what we would do when we come into office, the people of Ghana see that we are fulfilling those promises.…

Source; 3news.com | Ghana

Had the debate been extended for extra minute, two Members of Parliament would have traded blows in what could pass for the ‘[Dis]honourable Bout of the Century’ on a Live TV show. MP for Ketu South, Fifi Kwetey, locked horns with MP for Old Tafo Dr. Anthony Akoto Osei in heated exchanges when the Media General Group engaged them for a simple task of assessing the 2018 budget, presented by the Finance Minister to Parliament on Wednesday. “You are losing it” Fifi Kwetey thundered on TV3, to square off Akoto Osei’s posture and ‘drunk’ comment. Watch the brawl Source: 3news.com…