Education

The smartest family in Britain are Africans with Nigerian decent. The Imafidon family. Their father, Prof Imafidon is an international scholar and education consultant. He emigrated from Edo State, Nigeria to London over 35 years ago. He described his philosophy for raising kids thus: “If you really want a child …

Accra, Ghana – MTN Ghana has handed over a 24-unit classroom block to the Ghana Police Service’s Depot School at Tesano in the Greater Accra Region. The Gh¢3.4 million facility contains a Nursery and Kindergarten, a Primary School Department, and a Junior High School Department serving a student population of …

My Preliminary Take on the 2022 Budget Presented By Ken Ofori Atta, Minister of Finance 1. There is a smart move to widen the tax net through the abolition of the Road Tolls and the introduction of the E-Levy. But this worsens the plight of we the loyal tax payers. …

Accra, Ghana – The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta on Wednesday November 17, 2021 presented the 2022 Budget Statement and Government’s Economic Policy to Parliament. He also submitted to the august House the 2021 Annual Report on the Petroleum Funds, in accordance with Section 48 of the Petroleum Revenue Management …

Nadowli, Ghana – The Member of Parliament for Nadowli-Kaleo Constituency, Anthony Mwinkaara Sumah in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service in the Nadowli District has organized extra classes for the 2021 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates. The MP committed over Gh¢13,000 to cater for teachers’ motivation and fuel to …

An Open Letter to the Finance Minister, Dear Sir, 1. As you prepare to read the budget for 2022, I respectfully urge you not to do any such presentation without factoring the poor Conditions of Service of University Teachers. One of the abused refrain used in countering our demands this …

Tamale, Ghana – Fifteen people who benefited from “MTN Bright Scholarship” to study various undergraduate programmes at the University for Development Studies (UDS) have successfully graduated at its 22nd congregation held over the weekend at its main campus in Tamale. The scholarship beneficiaries who pursued Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics …

Ho, Ghana – The Ghana School Feeding Programme has organised training for headteachers, Circuit Supervisors, all Regional Coordinators and some selected Zonal coordinators under the Programme on the digitisation of its monitoring and evaluation tools. This follows the donation of some 300 Samsung Tablets by the World Food Programme (WFP) …

Abandoned e-blocks Saga: The Bitter Truth! The NPP government’s strategy for expanding secondary education is based on the already existing 70% boarding and 30% day strategy where it is largely expanding infrastructure in already existing schools, majority boarding. Prior to its exit from government, the NDC had a vision to …

Accra, Ghana – The National Secretariat of the Ghana School Feeding Programme has strongly refuted what it described as false claims by some uninformed caterers who are accusing the programme handlers of paying an amount of 12.9 million Ghana cedis to some so-called 510 ghost schools in the 2019/2020 academic …