The Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a report that found after programmatic changes, including the current COVID-19 moratorium on student loan payments, and economic factors, federal direct student loans will cost the federal government $197 billion. Story at a glance A new government watchdog report found federal student loans will cost the government $197 billion. That’s after the Education …

  Govt has been urged to reduce e-levy Other essential payments have been asked to scrap Dr Theo Acheampong made this known on Joy FM Dr Theo Acheampong, a policy risk analyst, has urged the government of Ghana to consider reducing the proposed 1.75% electronic levy which was included in the 2022 budget statement submitted to Parliament. Speaking on the …

The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel A.Jinapor has disclosed that government will procure speed boats and two new pick up vehicles to support the security operations along the White and Black Volta rivers in the Savannah Region. The intervention, he said, is to help prevent illegal mining activities along the stretch of the two main rivers in the …

As a matter of urgency, the government must invest in specialised training of nurses and midwives across the country to improve expert care given to patients and reduce mortalities resulting from coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and other infectious diseases. A Professor at the Department of Nursing of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Prof. Mrs Victoria Bam, who …

Popular Ghanaian traditional priest, Nana Kwaku Bonsam in September 2016 announced that he was going to petition the president and parliament to make some amendments to the constitution. According to the priest, he was bent on ensuring constitutional changes that will give room for all elected and appointed government officials to invoke traditional gods before assuming office. He was of …

Juaboso lawmaker, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh has described the Akufo-Addo administration as a government full of old people who have no respect for the people of this country. According to him, if the government respects Ghanaians they would have completed the health projects started by the Mahama administration in order to serve the needs of the governed. He said this when he led …

  Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Minister of Information, has said government’s topmost priority was economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and called on the media to offer the needed support. He said the coronavirus pandemic had affected the Nation’s economy, and that as the construction of the Executive arm of Government was being completed with the nomination of heads of the …

•Okudzeto Ablakwa maintains that President Akufo-Addo flew a $14,000-per hour aircraft to the UK and Germany •He says the president used the plane on his recent trip to the US •His allegations were rejected by the Director of Communications at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the Member of Parliament for North Tongu has chided the Director of Communications at …

Kwesi Amoako-Atta, the Minister of Roads and Highways, has stated that government will soon weed out or blacklist all non-resourceful contractors in order to sanitize the construction sector and pave way for effective delivery of government road projects. “In Ghana, the challenge is that everybody wants to be a contractor but most of them are not resourceful and government is …

The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources Hon. Samuel A. Jinapor says Government will this year, begin a programme to reclaim and revegetate Mined-out areas in the country. The programme, “Reclamation of Degraded Lands”, which is to be spearheaded by the Ministry through the Minerals Commission seeks to Reclaim degraded lands caused by illegal mining. The Minister disclosed this when …