Deputy Education minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has indicated, it is possible for the NDC to rescind its decision to boycott the 2016 presidential debates being organised be the Institute for Economic Governance (IEA). A return to the IEA debate he said is conditioned on the IEA providing assurances that it will be more balanced and … Read more
Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, a Deputy Education Minister says 32 of government’s new Community Day schools will admit their first batches of students who have passed their Basic Education Certificate Examination this academic year. He said the Education Ministry has submitted the list of schools that are ready to accommodate students to the Computerised School Placement … Read more
The Deputy Minister of Education in charge of Tertiary Education, Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has hinted that government has not budgeted for it’s campaign promise to hand-out electronic tablets to Senior High Schools next year. Presenting the highlights of the NDC manifesto last week, President John Mahama who is seeking re-election in December said his … Read more
The governing NDC says there is nothing phenomenal about the New Patriotic Party (NPP) economic record because it was shielded from economic difficulties through its decision to go to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). At the “Setting the records straight” press conference broadcasted on Joy FM, Transport Minister, Fifi Kwetey said the National Democratic Congress … Read more
Government seems to be employing subtle means to win the votes of trained teachers who have been sitting home without jobs. Many of these teachers have been home for close to a year without being posted [employed] as the government has put a freeze on their postings due to financial difficulties. But with just 77 … Read more
The Education Ministry has withdrawn a controversial memo to Regional Directors of Education instructing them to post all newly trained teachers but not issue an appointment letter to them to begin work. Deputy Education Minister in charge of Tertiary education, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, who in the morning questioned the authenticity of the memo, made a … Read more
The Deputy Education Minister in-charge of Tertiary Education, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has challenged running mate of the New Patriotic Party Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to substantiate claims he made on the educational sector during his lecture on Thursday. Dr. Bawumia during his lecture at the National Theatre on Ghana’s economy alleged that the NDC government had … Read more
The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) feels vindicated following President John Mahama’s admission that he can’t complete the much touted 200 Community Day Senior High Schools promised this year. Rather, he wants Ghanaians to give him another term ahead of the December 7 general election to enable him complete the project. The governing National Democratic … Read more
President John Mahama cannot deliver the 200 Community Day Senior High Schools before the end of his first term, the Deputy Education Minister, Samuel Okudjeto Ablakwa has revealed. Mahama in the lead up to the 2012 general elections promised to build 200 Community day schools, but barely three months to the end of his first … Read more
The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), has described as a monumental failure, President John Mahama’s implementation of the so-called progressive free Senior High School (SHS) education policy. The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) after the 2012 election, decided to implement what it called a progressive free SHS policy, a replica of the NPP’s much hyped … Read more
The atmosphere in the studios of Atinka FM on Monday was a shimmering one as Managing Editor of then Insight Newspaper, Mr. Kwesi Pratt clashed with controversial musician A’ Plus over his new political song, “ Aben b3 b)m” In the song, which has so far enjoyed massive ‘downloads,’ A Plus accused the NDC of … Read more
Deputy Education Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa says he will have to think twice about an invitation to lunch extended to him by the Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Martey, the outgoing moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana. Ablakwa says he cannot hazard any guess on how the controversial man of God would construe a lunch meeting, … Read more