Some parents in Kumasi say they have been compelled to withdraw their wards from basic private schools as the cost of education in those facilities has shot up. The worried parents say moving their children to public schools has become inevitable due to the ballooning cost of tuition, feeding, transportation and stationery.  They believe it has become necessary to find ...

China’s population has fallen for the first time in 60 years, with the national birth rate hitting a record low – 6.77 births per 1,000 people. The population in 2022 – 1.4118 billion – fell by 850,000 from 2021. China’s birth rate has been declining for years, prompting a slew of policies to try to slow the trend. But seven ...

The Ghana Health Service says it is committed to ensuring accessible and affordable healthcare delivery by 2030. This according to the Service is in tandem with the World Health Organization’s universal health coverage policy scheduled to be achieved by 2030. Ghana Health Service (GHS) says it is in the process of devising strategies to ensure that, every Ghanaian enjoys quality ...

The Pensioner Bondholders Forum has threatened to picket at the Ministry of Finance on January 23, 2023, if the government fails to exempt them from the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme.  The Forum said it had written to the District Commander of the Ghana Police Service at the Ministries in Accra to notify the police of their intended action.  Dr Adu ...

TAMA Foundation Universal, a Policy Think Tank based in Tamale, in the Northern Region of Ghana has trained over 300 Community members and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in natural resources governance across the five regions of the north. The move was to equip them with the requisite knowledge to effectively engage with mining companies, regulatory agencies and other key stakeholders ...

The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has revoked the licenses of 30 Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) for breaching the regulations of the industry. Some of the OMCs are said to owe the government over ¢400 million cedis in the form of unpaid taxes by the end 0f 2022. A list of the companies published by the NPA said the licenses of ...

President Akufo-Addo has said that the country is hopeful to get an International Monetary Fund (IMF) deal latest in February. According to him, the deal will enable the economy to bounce back. He added that the deal will also help us repair the country’s public finances as well as “rebuild the confidence of outsiders in our economy and our own ...

An appeal has been made to the government of Ghana, particularly the Ministry of Finance to consider exempting pensioner Bondholders from the ongoing Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP). The proponents, Pensioner Bondholder’s Forum argue that pensioners have no source of income to support them in terms of feeding, buying regular medication, paying medical bills and meeting other critical needs, thus, ...

Football talents abound in Ghana and the African continent in general, however; it takes scouts, mini-tournaments, and in some areas, community-organized football competitions to uncover these endowments. Such competitions, particularly in areas outside the big towns offer enormous opportunities for emerging football geniuses. One of these convergences was recently organized by no other person but the venerable Frank Annoh- Dompreh ...

The activist daughter of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been sentenced to five years in prison, her lawyer said on Tuesday. The lawyer did not give detail of the charges against Faezeh Hashemi. But Tehran’s public prosecutor indicted Hashemi last year on charges of “propaganda against the system”, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency. State media in ...