618The Inspector General of Police, Dr George Akuffo Dampare has revealed the extent to which his administration is going to fight crime while ensuring discipline in the service. Speaking at a durbar with police officers in the Bono Regional Capital on Friday, Dr Dampare said his administration has adopted and implemented various intelligence gathering efforts […]
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NAGRAT calls on govt to abort debt exchange programme
698 The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) is calling on government to abort the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme. Since securing a staff-level agreement with the IMF, the government has been working with stakeholders to get them to subscribe to the debt exchange programme. Some groups have fiercely kicked against the DDEP arguing that it […]
Tamale Teaching Hospital workers threaten strike over power outage
760 Following the sit down strike by the senior staff Association of the Northern Electricity Distribution Company of Ghana (NEDCo), some doctors at the Tamale Teaching Hospital are threatening to boycott work as they have slept in darkness for days. NEDCo workers are currently on strike demanding the removal of their managing director, Osmani Aludiba […]
It is unfair to say government has neglected basic schools – Education Ministry
1,032 Deputy Public Relations Officer of the Education Ministry, Yaw Mensah Opoku, says the manner in which the government is being portrayed in regard to education infrastructure challenges in basic schools is unjust. According to him, government was making several interventions to help resolve challenges facing some primary schools in the country, such as portrayed […]
Mystery middlemen surface in Ghana’s Gold for Oil deals
778 Regular readers would recall a recent tweet about whispers floating around Accra’s political alleys about the role of fixers and go-betweens in Ghana’s Vice President’s vaunted “Gold for Oil” initiative. A bit earlier, we explored the merits and prospects of the whole Gold for Oil program in some detail. When the above tweet was […]
Central Region Receives 2.5 Tonnes Of Seeds To Boost Rice Production
546 The management of the Rice Value Chain Improvement Project (RVCIP), being implemented with support from the Korean government, has handed over 2,500 kg (2.5 tonnes) of certified high quality rice seeds to the Central Regional Coordinating Council to boost rice production. The consignment, which is high yielding and disease resistant is for distribution to […]
SHS Freshers To Report On February 20th
673 All qualified Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates who are being placed into senior high schools (SHSs) and technical and vocational institutions are expected to report to school on February 20, 2023. This is part of the timetable the Ghana Education Service (GES) has released for the academic year for all SHSs and also […]
Suaman DCE Donates Items To Persons With Disabilities
745 The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Suaman District in the Western North Region, Hon. Philip Kwabena Boahen has handed over 28 refrigerators, a fufu pounding machine, a modern sowing machine, cocoa spraying machines and physical cash to over 10 schoolers each having GH¢4000 to People Living with Disabilities (PWDs) in the Suaman district […]
Headmaster Donates GHC3,000 Worth Of Educational Resources To Needy Children In Afedzi D/A Primary
538 Ghanaian headmaster of Afedzi D/A Primary School who double as 2020 Twifo Atti-Morkwa overall district best farmer and chief executive officer (CEO) of Show Bouy’s Farms, Mr. Isaac Agyiri popularly know as Show Boy has donated educational resources worth GHC 3,000 to pupils at Afedzi D/A Primary School in Twifo Atti-Morkwa district in the […]
Finance Minister to appear before Parliament on Thursday over DDEP
677 The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta is expected to appear before Parliament on Thursday February 16, 2023, to brief the house on the government’s Domestic Debt Exchange programme. This follows a directive by the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin to the Business Committee of the House to summon the Finance Minister to give a policy […]