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Govt owes £17m in unpaid fees to 927 Ghanaian scholarship students in UK – Minority alleges

The government owes nearly £17 million in unpaid tuition to 927 Ghanaian students who were on scholarship in the UK for 27 months, according to information revealed by the minority members of the Parliamentary Education Committee. According to the caucus, certain universities were compelled to...

Interior Minister calls for purity from police in new housing facility

Hon. Henry Quartey has apprised police officers to avoid bringing their messy behaviour from their barracks to the new housing facility handed over by the government. He highlighted that the government will not tolerate their unkept behaviour typically seen in police barracks. During the handing-over ceremony...

Government to introduce paternity leave and extend maternity leave

The Minister of Finance, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam, has announced that the government, in collaboration with its social partners, has developed a draft Labour Bill, 2024 to strengthen labor administration and regulation of the workplace. This announcement was made during the mid-year budget review presented...

Dr. Bawumia begins distribution of ‘One Student, One Tablet’ programme. Read more here.

A few students at Kumasi's Opoku Ware School received hundreds of computer tablets from Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia. In addition, he oversaw the implementation of the first lessons in the classrooms and commissioned a smart school block. The government promised Ghanaians that, among other things,...

‘There won’t be new taxes in this mid-year budget’ – Deputy Finance Minister

Dr. Alex Ampaabeng, a deputy minister of finance, has reassured the general public that no additional taxes will be introduced by the government in the approaching mid-year budget.  This declaration comes in the wake of stakeholders' widespread complaints about the high tax burden on people...