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 …
Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, the Minister of Education, has announced that Cabinet has approved proposals for a review of academic user fees of students. He said this was done last month and have been forwarded to Parliament for ratification. Dr Prempeh said this in a speech read on his behalf at the 11th Congregation of the University of Mines and …
Energy Minister, Peter, has mocked the Minority’s claim that it has the names of government officials that fronted the botched power concession agreement. Minority Spokesperson on the Mines and Energy Committee, Adams Mutawakilu, has said that the suspension of the agreement between government and Power Distribution Services (PDS) goes beyond the alleged breaches of PDS’s obligation to provide Payment Securities. …
A former New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Obuasi East has revealed that the government ignored his warnings not to sign the concession agreement with Power Distribution Services (PDS). Edward Enin claimed his warnings were ignored and they “squeezed the necks of someone just to favour a Ghanaian. “PDS from beginning was not clean technically, financially but …
Dr Charles Wereko-Brobby has Addo President Akufo-Addo, Kweku Sakyi-Addo and Albert Kan Dapaah for abandoning their pedigrees as press freedom fighters. According to the outspoken former Chief Executive of the Ghana@50 Committee and renowned press freedom advocate, the positions the trio occupy and the current happenings in the media space ran contrary to their long years of media freedom activism. …
A Former Chief Justice, Mrs Justice Georgina Theodora Wood, has advised young people seeking leadership positions to consider such elevations as an opportunity to seek the welfare of the people they desire to lead and not as a means to amass wealth. She emphasised that leadership positions must not be used as avenues for graft and opportunities for families and …
The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has granted letters of commencement to the three development authorities to commence the full implementation of the $1-million per Constituency pledge under the Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Programme (IPEP) for the 2020 fiscal year. The commencement certificate makes available GH¢1.66 billion (equivalent of $320 million) for the 275 constituencies across the country. This covers $275 …
A lecturer with Planning Department of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr Stephen Takyi has suggested that not every Junior High School (JHS) graduate shoul be allowed to benefit from the government’s flagship program, free Senior High School (SHS). “Children whose parents honour their tax obligation to the government must be allowed to enjoy free education”, …
Medical Officer at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr Augustine Adoliba Ayanoore, has called on Parliament to as a matter of urgency pass the over aged Occupational Health Hazard Bill. The Bill when passed, he said, would force organisations to put up Occupational Health Teams to prevent unnecessary work-related health problems and deaths. A statement signed and copied to the Ghana …
Government’s Accelerated Oil and Gas Capacity (AOGC) programme established to enhance the capacity of Ghanaians to enable them to work in the Oil and Gas sector, has shortlisted five Ghanaian youth. The shortlisted persons are headed to the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Canada, to receive specialised training in upstream welding to boost their skill set in the Oil and …
