President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has assured Ghanaians the quality of secondary education will not be sacrificed in the implementation of the free senior high school (SHS) policy. He said at the core of the programme’s implementation is the “provision of quality education” which would be pursued unfailingly. At the official launch of the free SHS at the West African […]

President Akufo-Addo has revealed his government will resort to “proceeds from natural resources” to fund the free Senior High School policy. The policy is to ensure that every student eligible to enter second cycle institution gains admission with free meal and tuition. “To ensure that no child is denied access to secondary education, we are removing one of the biggest […]

The Minority in Parliament has refuted reports suggesting that they are opposed to the implementation of the free senior high school education policy by government. According to them, their concern has had to do with what they call a shift from the campaign promise of providing free education to all SHS students to just first-year students. This, for them, means […]

The Health Services Workers Union (HSWU) has said Government’s decision to implement their Collective Agreement from January 2017 was against the principle of negotiation. According to the Union, they had signed a Collective Agreement with Government to take effect from January 2016, however, Government without consultation with the Union, decided to implement it from January 2017. It therefore called on […]

The six-month ban slapped on the Tema West Member of Parliament and the Deputy Minister for Trade, Carlos Ahinkorah, by the Tema Metropolitan Assembly, has been lifted.This comes after the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) appealed the ban.Mr Ahenkora was suspended after he attacked a TMA engineer who was supervising the flattening of unauthorised structures erected on the shoulders of a […]

Former President Mahama says contrary to public perception, party ideological training schools are not about brain washing people to become “ideological robots”. He said, beyond the teaching of ideologies, there is a lot of training dedicated to inculcating the spirit of nationalism, patriotism and community service into younger minds. He indicated, the Ghana Institute for Social Democracy set up by […]

More efforts are needed, particularly by the government to curb the spate of malnutrition in Ghana and other parts of Africa, an international report has recommended. The report launched on Monday by the Malabo Montpellier Panel notes that across Africa, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger dropped from 28% to 20% between 1990 and 2015 although the total […]

Bauxite mining and prospecting firm, Exton Cubic Company Ltd, has threatened to take legal action to reverse the revocation of its mining lease by Ministry of Lands and Water Resources. Mjoyonline.com has intercepted a correspondence between the firm and the Ministry in which Managing Director, Maxwell Amegashie, describes the decision by the government to revoke and invalidate its licenses to […]

Ghana’s second Karpowership with a 450-megawatt capacity has been berthed at the Tema Fishing Harbour. The Karpowership deal was a makeshift arrangement by the erstwhile John Maham-led government to curtail the harsh implications of the infamous “dumsor” and its effects on businesses and Ghanaian households, as well as augment the country’s current energy supply capacity. The arrival of Karadeniz Powership […]

THE somehow deafening silence of Africa on the ongoing situation in Togo beats the imagination of many right-thinking people.  For us at Weekend Today, we still do not know what is delaying African Union (AU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) from intervening in the rising political tension in Togo. UNFORTUNATELY, Ghana, which shares border with Togo, appears to […]