The three teacher unions in the country, the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) and the Concerned Teachers Association (CTA), have agreed for the licensure examination to proceed as scheduled.
The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) is collaborating with the Scholarships Secretariat to create a ‘labour bank’ to allow industries and businesses to easily source the requisite manpower for growth, the Registrar of the Secretariat, Mr Kingsley Agyemang, has disclosed.
This report is the first ever produced to highlight the work of a Council of State to commemorate its first year in office. It contains many of the activities undertaken by the seventh Council of State in its first year of existence.
The General Overseer of Destiny House Chapel, Prophet Bernard Taylor, has welcomed the government’s decision to build a national cathedral, describing it as a good cause.
A presidential aspirant of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Elikplim Agbemava, has filed processes at the Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of a number of institutions created to supervise aspects of education in the country.
Ghana is to receive the second allocation of compact funds from the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) in the amount of $190 million after government met all the required conditions to access the funds.
Communities along the White Volta in the Northern Region impacted by the spillage of excess water from the Bagre Dam in neighbouring Burkina Faso have called for a quick response to the plight of victims of the spillage.
The Minister of Inner City and Zongo Development, Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, has stated that development will not be skewed in favour of any group of people in the inner cities and Zongos.
The amount of sustainable cocoa sourced by Cargill in Ghana has doubled since the establishment of licensed buying company (LBC) model, and over 13,000 cocoa farmers are now benefiting from the initiative – up by 30 per cent from 10,000 a year ago.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s state visit to China is bearing early fruits, with China’s first heavyduty truck manufacturer, Sinotruk International, signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Government of Ghana to establish an assembly plant in Ghana to serve the West African market.
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, will soon introduce two new programmes in agriculture which are the Planting for Export and Rural Development (PERD) and the District Centres for Agriculture Commerce and Technology (DCACT).
The Ghana Book Publishers Association (GBPA) has expressed worry about the rate at which publishers who win government textbook printing contracts are awarding printing contracts to firms outside the country at the expense of local printers.
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission has condemned as un-Islamic and a heinous rejection of guidelines provided by Holy Prophet Muhammad, all acts of violence that attended the recent elections of Imams in Nandom in the Upper West Region.
