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Government has initiated processes in Parliament towards making corruption a more unrewarding venture. The Attorney General and Minister of Justice Gloria Akuffo has in this regard presented to Parliament the Criminal Offences (Amendment) Bill, 2020. The bill when passed will make the punishment for corruption stiffer as such crimes will become felony instead of the current misdemeanor status. It was laid today by the Majority Leader ...

A total of 54 Nigerians arrested for unlawful entry into Ghana through unapproved routes along the Ghana-Togo frontier are awaiting repatriation, officials of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) have said. The illegal travellers, who are currently in the custody of Aflao Sector Command of the GIS, were apprehended at various unapproved routes within the last ten days and detained at ...

Education Minister, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has said calls for re-opened schools to be shut down over rising cases of the Coronavirus, particularly in Senior High Schools, are untenable. Speaking during an interview on Adom TV’s ‘Badwam’ programme on Monday, July 13, 2020, the Minister said he disagreed with the calls for SHSs to be closed down and the students sent ...

The Education Ministry has moved to the sector minister’s defence about a report that 90% of staff at the Ministry tested positive for COVID-19. According to Public Relations Office of the Ministry, it is majority of the inner staff of the Ministry – staff that work closely with the Minister – that have tested positive for coronavirus. “We the inner ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has charged a sub-committee of the Presidential COVID-19 Taskforce to looking into the cases being recorded in schools. Within the past few days, nine students of Mpraeso Senior High School in the Kwahu South District of the Eastern Region have been isolated over COVID-19 fears. The school is awaiting results of tests conducted on the students as they receive medical attention ...

The Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC) has urged the Ministry of Education, Ghana Education Service and school authorities to work with parents and students to ensure the effective containment and management of COVID-19 outbreak in schools. The authorities, it said should ensure the provision of adequate logistics for containment and isolation measures, while students and parents must exercise restraint and register ...

Mr Ignatius Baffour-Awuah, the Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, has encouraged employers to engage their local unions to agree on common ways to manage labour challenges in their mutual interest. Mr Baffour-Awuah said in the event of downsizing their workforce, it should be done in consultation with the leadership of the unions but management should not take unilateral decisions, especially ...

President Akufo-Addo has granted amnesty to 794 deserving prisoners. This forms part of government’s efforts to ensure the decongestions of Ghana’s prisons and its related complications. In a statement signed by the Director-General of the Ghana Prisons Service, Patrick Darko Missah, the groupings comprise 772 first offenders, 16 very old prisoners, and four seriously ill inmates. Two death sentence have ...

Former General Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, popularly known as Sir John, has passed away. He is reported to have died on Wednesday at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra after a short illness. Sir John was the CEO of the Forestry Commission. According to sources he tested positive for Covid-19 and succumbed ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings says the threat of potential terrorist attacks against Ghana is real and behoves both the military, whose duty it is to defend the territorial integrity of the country, and citizens in border towns to stay alert to the threat. In a statement issued on his behalf by the Communication Directorate of his office, Rawlings said ...