In order to make up for its revenue shortfall in the 2022 budget, the government claims it would use the windfall from the upstream petroleum sector. When he submitted the 2022 mid-year budget to Parliament for approval on Monday, July 25, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta made this information public. According …

Yesterday, to mark the 10th anniversary of the passing of the late Professor John Evans Atta-Mills, the third president of the Fourth Republic, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo lay a wreath at the renovated “Asomdwee Park” in Accra. Wreaths were also placed on the former President’s tomb by the Atta-Mills …

On July 24, 2022, former President John Evans Atta-Mills’ birthday was honored by John Mahama. The National Democratic Congress (NDC) stalwarts and supporters joined the late president’s family to pay tribute to Mills at the Asomdwee Park with Mahama. At the remembrance occasion, Mahama stated that it would be impossible …

On September 1, 2022, the National Builder’s Corps (NaBCo) program, the government’s flagship initiative, will terminate. During his presentation of the 2022 Mid-Year Budget Review speech on Monday, July 25, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta confirmed this. According to him, NABCO’s four-year operation, which saw it help 100,000 recent graduates, would …

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has stressed that the government has no plans to revisit the Free Senior High School program in response to rumors that it may. On July 25, 2022, Mr. Ofori-Atta underlined the government’s interest in human capital development when delivering the Mid-Year Review of the Budget Statement …

All co-curricular activities that senior high schools engage in outside of their campuses are to be temporarily suspended, according to a directive from the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS). Due to insufficient funding, the decision was made at the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting for the third …

On Friday, July 22, Hon. Nicholas Amankwah, the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Western Region’s Wassa Amenfi East Constituency, called the Minister of Roads and Highways to account for the lack of bridge development projects in his district. He claims that the circumstances for traveling across rivers have gotten …

John Boadu, the former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has vowed to assist the recently chosen national executives in order to make sure the party “breaks the 8.” In a statement released over the weekend in Accra, “General,” as he is called in the elephant party, claimed …

Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, vice president, has officially broke the ground for the development of Ghana’s first inland marine port and an associated industrial park at Debre in the Savannah Region. LMI Holdings is developing the Trans-Volta Logistics Corridor, a multimodal transportation route that will use the Volta Lake to convey …

The Ministry of Education has denied reports that the Free Senior High School initiative, the Akufo-Addo administration’s signature program, is being reviewed. In an interview with Joy News, the Director General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Prof. Kwabena Opoku Amankwah, stated that a review is happening to determine which …