The West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) begins across the country today, with 346,098 candidates from 987 public and private senior high schools writing the examination in various subjects.
Crime is as old as the time man has spent on this earth. To ensure orderliness, societies classified crimes according to their severity, with appropriate punishment attached to the various categories.
Political thuggery, often referred to as vigilantism in the country, which has been on the ascendancy in the past years, has, indeed, become a worrying phenomenon in our democratic dispensation.
The government will, from today, slash down the benchmark values for all imports by 50 per cent, except those for vehicles, which will be cut by 30 per cent.
By 2050, plastic waste in the oceans will be more than the fishes, a report from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, in partnership with the World Economic Forum, has predicted.
In his inaugural address as the 35th President of the United States of America on Friday, January 20, 1961, John F. Kennedy made this profound statement: “Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.”
Since Ghana went to the Bretton Woods institutions – the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank—for succour in the early 1970s during the Busia era, and in the 1980s, during the PNDC’s Economic Recovery Programme (ERP), the country has continued its romance with the two institutions, albeit not without challenges as pertains in every relationship.
Tuberculosis, also known as TB, is a disease caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis which attacks the lungs mostly but also other parts of the body and is said to be one of the world’s top infectious diseases, as it claims 4,500 lives each day.
The developmental needs of every country require that enough funds be raised to ensure sufficient funding of state infrastructure for the comfort of citizens.
The history of Ghana’s public tertiary institutions is replete with demonstrations and activism by students, as well as teaching and non-teaching staff.
Since the discovery of oil and gas in commercial quantities in Ghana, government has, over time, been working feverishly to ensure that the country fully benefits from the blessings of what has been described as ‘black gold’.
