The Governing Council of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) has reinstated three lecturers who were dismissed from the institution. The school is also set to reopen on April 8, 2019, after it was shut down following student protests against the school’s Vice Chancellor over the dismissal of some of the lecturers. According to a statement from the Governing Council ...

The World Bank has lamented over the high cost of internet in low-to-middle income countries, including Ghana. The Bank’s Vice President for Africa, Hafez Ghanem, who made this observation when he paid a courtesy call on the Minister of Communications, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, urged her to adopt measures to bring the cost down. A research findings released in October 2018 by ...

The government has announced a reduction in the benchmark valuation of imports effective Thurday, April 4. The benchmark valuation for general goods has been slashed by 50 per cent whilst that of vehicles has also seen a 30 per cent reduction. This was announced by Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on Wednesday at the maiden Town Hall Meeting on the economy organised by ...

Women have always played central role throughout history and have always contributed to the stability, progress and long-term development of the globe.  Studies have shown that when the economy and political structure of a society change, women take the lead in assisting the family adjust to new realities and challenges. Globally, women constitute 43 percent of the world’s agricultural workforce. ...

A Former Chairman of the Confiscated Vehicle Committee (CVC) under the late President J.E.A. Mills government, Mr Carl Wilson, has said that Ghana will continue to wallow in poverty and underdevelopment if its current system of governance, where presidents are elected on partisan lines is not changed. It is his belief that Ghana’s prosperity lies in electing an independent person ...

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has reiterated its caution to teachers against corporal punishment. Mr Gideon Tsawodzi, the Volta Regional Guidance and Counselling Coordinator, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) said, the Service had banned caning in private and public primary and secondary schools and would not defend any teacher reported for assaulting pupils and students. He ...

The ancient Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle, referring to apprenticeship once said that “crafts are teachable, otherwise good craftsmen would be born, not made”. Indeed, apprenticeship a system where knowledge and skills are imparted to a new generation of practitioners through on the job training is one of the oldest methods of teaching and learning known to man. In ancient ...

The government plans to introduce buses powered by compressed natural gas and electric buses as part of efforts to reduce air pollution on the roads in the country. The environmentally-friendly buses are expected to phase-out the operations of urban buses – popularly called ‘trotro’ – that use dirty fossil fuels such as diesel and petrol. The Deputy Minister of Transport, Daniel ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Memeber of Parliament (MP) for Juabeng, Ms Ama Pomaa Boateng, has proposed to Parliament to, as a matter of urgency, pass a law to incorporate cryptocurrency into Ghana’s financial  sector. She said there was an urgent need for members of the house to expand their knowledge and pioneer legislation that would recognise the block-chain technology ...

Rural areas continue to be in a state of crisis in many parts of the world, threatening to slow the progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals, global climate targets, and improved food and nutrition security. This is contained in the 2019 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) released today by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Rural areas remain underserved compared to urban areas ...