Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has admitted that there is no money. He said although demand by public sector workers for salary increment is legitimate, the government has no money at the moment to meet the demands hence efforts to generate domestic revenue. Speaking in Wa in the Upper West Region during the fourth townhall meeting […]
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A total of 79 customary marriages were dissolved at the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) in 2021. The Assembly, in 2021, registered a total of 345 customary marriages, 79 of which were dissolved, indicating that, one out of four of the marriages registered collapsed. They were engagements and Islamic marriages. Common causes of the collapse of […]
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The Ghana Education Service (GES) has said that it will meet with the teacher unions on Thursday, January 20, 2022 to resolve their concerns over the new semester-based academic calendar for basic schools. The teacher unions in a joint statement on Monday, January 17, 2022 called on the GES to immediately withdraw the new policy […]
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The University of Ghana, Legon (UG) branch of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), has rejected a proposal by government to pay its members $1,600 as research allowance. It has thus declared a strike on January 3. In a letter co-signed by the President and General Secretary Dr Samuel Nkumbaan and Prof Ransford Gyampo, […]
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The National Executive Committee of the National Association of Sachet and Packaged Water Producers (NASAWAP) has announced an adjustment in the price of sachet water. According to the association, the price of sachet water will be sold at GHp40 with effect from Monday, 27 December 2021. It is recommended that the 500 ml iced bottled […]
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The High Court in Accra (General Jurisdiction) has dismissed the suit filed by two teacher unions- the Innovative Teachers and All Teachers Alliance Ghana (ATAG) against K. A Technology, Ministry of Education of Ghana two others for lack of capacity. This was upon an application by lawyers for K. A Technology to dismiss the action. […]
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The Municipal Chief Executive for Ho, Hon. Divine Bosson, has warned parents of underage tricycle riders to ensure their wards desist from the act or face legal actions themselves. He made the statement when he paid a courtesy call on the Paramount Chief of the Ziavi Traditional Area, Togbe Kwaku Ayim V, in his Palace […]
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The Ministry of Education is set to reduce the number of Junior High Schools in Ghana from 13,000 to 2500 after re-engineering the country’s a educational system to promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). The new system will be called the Junior Senior High School. Education Minister Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum explained that “We […]
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Government plans to pilot a six-year secondary education system beginning in 2023. “In 2023 when we open those schools, you are going to see how we are going to see six years [of] quality secondary education,” the Education Minister, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, said to the press on Tuesday. This system will be piloted at […]
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A group of teachers who are angry over deductions from their continuous professional development allowances for the purchase of laptops to aid their work are threatening to shut down all union offices if their money is not refunded by end of December. The teachers who are currently marching to the various offices of the teacher […]
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