A constitutional amendment aimed at lifting  r estrictions on dual citizens from holding  c ertain public positions has been gazetted and  is scheduled for first reading on Monday,  August 2.

The government has set aside 23 per cent of the national budget for educational development in the country, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced. He said Ghana had no option but to invest in education because it was critical to the future development of the country. The President said Ghana was moving away from exporting raw materials to processing them in order to add value to them, a development that required an educated and skilled human resource. President Akufo-Addo said this at a presidential panel discussion on: “The way forward for transforming educational outcomes” during at a two-day Global Education Summit in London, United Kingdom (UK) Thursday, July 29. The other panellists were the President of Kenya, Mr Uhuru Kenyatta; the President of Malawi, Mr Lazarus Chakwera; President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria and the Togolese President, Mr Faure Gnassingbé. The two-day summit, which was co-hosted by the governments of the UK and Kenya, sought to raise at least $5

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, left Ghana on Tuesday, 27th July 2021, for an official visit to the United Kingdom. At the invitation of H.E. Uhuru Kenyatta, President of the Republic of Kenya and Rt. Hon. Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the Government of the United Kingdom, President Akufo-Addo will be leading Ghana’s delegation to the Global Education Summit, to be held from 28th to 29th July, 2021 in London.  The Global Education Summit: Financing GPE 2021-2025 will be a key moment for the global community to come together and support quality education for all children. A centre-piece of the summit will be the opportunity for leaders to make 5-year pledges to support GPE's work to help transform education systems in up to 90 countries and territories The President will also, at the invitation of the Founder/Chief Executive Officer of the Emerging Business Intelligence & Innovation (EBII) Group, attend as Special Guest of Honour, and deliver the k

  President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and their spouses yesterday joined hundreds of Ghanaians to bid final farewell to a former Chief of Defence Staff, Lieutenant General Joshua Mahamudu Hamidu, who was laid to rest.

  The government allocated a total amount of GH¢7.62 billion for the implementation of the Free Senior High School (SHS) programme during the past five years, the Minister of Finance, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, has told Parliament.

The Education Ministry is fighting off claims it misapplied ¢19 million allocated to the Free SHS account for the implementation of government’s flagship programme.

The long-wait for the distribution of laptops to teachers seems to have come to an end as distribution has begun following the delivery of two hundred and eighty thousand laptops to Ghana Education Service. 

The Overlord of the Dagbon Traditional Area Ya- Naa Abukari Mahama II has charged the Members of Parliament (MPs) from the Minority Caucus who hail from the Northern Region to make the development of the region a priority.

  Khaya is a mobile app that allows easy translation of selected Ghanaian Languages, in addition to Yoruba (a Nigerian Language). It comes at a time when the world is leaning more towards digitization.

The Ministry of Information has alerted the public to the activities of a fake 2021 protocol e-recruitment portal purporting to be from the Public Relations Department of the General Headquarters of the Ghana Armed Forces. 

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  Pictures: Tamale Metropolis has gotten it’s share of the policy to install CCTV cameras at various traffic points across the country.  The CCTV cameras were installed at vantage points as part of the Nationwide Intelligent Traffic Management System. The system relies on a coordinated traffic signal system with digitised traffic lights and a centralised control centre where all traffic signals will be monitored and controlled to improve traffic flow, trip reliability and road safety. The CCTV cameras which is common in most countries is also used to increase surveillance in communities and to curb the upsurge of crimes in society.

Someone made my day by posting this today.. New York is 3 hours ahead of California, but it does not make California slow.  Someone graduated at the age of 22, but waited 5 years before securing a good job!  Someone became a CEO at 25, and died at 50.  While another became a CEO at 50,  and lived to 90 years.  Someone is still single,  While someone else got married.  Obama retires at 55, but Trump starts at 70.  Absolutely everyone in this world works based on their Time Zone.  People around you might seem to go ahead of you, some might seem to be behind you.  But everyone is running their own RACE, in their own TIME.  Don’t envy them or mock them.  They are in their TIME ZONE, and you are in yours!  Life is about waiting for the right moment to act.  So, RELAX.  You’re not LATE.  You’re not EARLY.  You are very much ON TIME, and in your TIME ZONE Destiny set up for you.    In conclusion don't rush to get and don't be sad if things turn out to be slow. In Gods hands time is a

  Scientists have found a critically endangered frog species that has not been found anywhere in the world in the Atewa Range Forest Reserve. The team of scientists, which included a Ghanaian from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (CSIR-FORIG), Dr Caleb Boateng, discovered the frog species and published it with the common name "Atewa Slippery frog. "Scientifically, the species has been named "Conraua sagyimase," after the Sagyimase community located at the foot of the Atewa Forest that has supported work on the frog. The Deputy National Director of A Rocha Ghana, an environmental non-governmental organisation (NGO), Mr Daryl Bosu, who disclosed this to the Daily Graphic, said the Conraua sagyimase was found only in five streams in the northern part of the Atewa Range Forest Reserve. He said the discovery was done about a year ago but the researchers had to go through scientific processes that culminated in the ev

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo  has on Friday, 16th July 2021, commissioned the National Mosque of Ghana Complex, at a brief ceremony at Nima.  The edifice contains a grand mosque which is the second largest in West Africa, an office complex for the National Chief Imam, a clinic fitted with laboratories and a pharmacy, a library and a morgue.  With the current and immediate past Presidents of the Republic of Niger, their Excellencies Mohammed Bazoum and Mahamadou Issoufou, and Professor Ali Erbaş, President of the Directorate of Religious Affairs of Turkey, present, President Akufo-Addo applauded the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Osman Nuhu Sharubutu, as well as the Government and people of the Republic of Turkey for its financial and technical support offered towards the construction of the Complex.    “The minaret of this mosque is very visible from many parts of Accra. For me, it is not just the beauty that it adds to Accra’s skyline that excites me necessarily. I am even more

  The Director General of the Ghana Education Service, Prof Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa has on Monday July 12,2021 visited Achiase SHS, Aperade SHSTS and Akim Swedru SHS as part of his schools monitoring schedule.  The DG met management and staff of each school as well as form three (3) students preparing to write 2021 WASSCE. Prof Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa commended management and staff on their contributions to the development of the students as well as their performances in the WASSCE last year in spite of their many challenges. The DG urged the teachers to continue with their good works and assured the teachers that their intervention allowance is being worked on and will be paid soon. The DG said that because of the COVID, Management of GES could not organize the annual workshop for core subject teachers, however, master trainers have been put together to do a recording of lessons in the core subjects which will be given to schools to aid teaching and learning. Prof Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa in his a

A one-stop platform to enable citizens easily access government services, simplify payments for public services, ensure prompt payments for the services and promote transparency and visibility of internally generated funds has been launched in Accra by the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia. Known as Ghana.gov, and accessible via the website www.ghana.gov.gh or shortcode *222# on any mobile phone whether smart or ‘yam’, Ghana.GOV is a payments and revenue collection platform that provides a single point of access to all services of ministries, departments and agencies of government.  Built from scratch, and two years in the making, the platform consists of 4 main components: a web portal, mobile app and USSD interface; a payment processing component; a notification component; and a complaint submission medium. At a colourful launch ceremony at the Jubilee House on Wednesday, July 14, 2021, attended by the Chief of Staff, Ministers in charge of Finance, Digitalization and the Governor

The First Lady of the Republic, Rebecca Akufo-Addo has refunded an amount of GH¢899,097.84 paid to her as allowance from the year 2017 to date. A letter addressed to the Chief of Staff, signed by Mrs Shirley Laryea of the Office of the First Lady stated, “I am directed to forward, herewith, a consolidated Bank Ghana Limited cheque number 000002 for an amount of GH¢899,097.84 (Eight hundred and ninety-nine thousand ninety-seven Ghana cedis eighty-four pesewas), being the full refund for monies received from 7th January 2017 to date, as allowances given to her Excellency the First Lady of the republic.” “Her Excellency the First Lady of the Republic is refunding the amount stated above and also takes the opportunity to decline any allowances to be paid to her in the future,” a part of the letter read. The decision follows what Mrs Akufo-Addo describes as distasteful and “seeking to portray her as a venal, self-serving and self-centred woman, who does not care about the plight of the ordi

A 15-year-old student of Accra Academy Senior High School at Bubuashie, Accra, has been arrested for allegedly being behind recent fire outbreaks in the school. He is said to have confessed to setting fire to dormitory blocks, including a new dormitory block, which was razed down completely, because he was forced into the school by his parents against his will.

Information has emerged of a 28-year-old Ghanaian staying in Tamale listed among the 30 most wanted online fraudsters in the United States.  Maxwell Atugba Abayeta, popularly known as Mawxell Peter, according to the United Stated Department of Justice, was indicted by the District Court of Tennessee with “conspiracy to commit wire fraud, money laundering, computer fraud and aggravated identity theft”. "The United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Tennessee is prosecuting numerous individuals in connection with an international fraud perpetrated, in part, through online dating websites. If you have sent or been asked to send money to or on behalf of the following, you may be a victim in this case,” excerpts of the statement read.