The National Democratic Party (NDP) wants the President to use tomorrow’s State of the Nation Address to state his position on contradictory statements made by two ministers on the use of the Heritage Fund to finance the free senior high school policy. The Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Marfo had suggested that the government will use … Read more
The Economic Management Team of government is pondering which taxes to abolish and the ones to increase, as it looks to take the shackles off the private sector. Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Marfo, who is also a member of the Economic Management Team of the Akufo-Addo-led administration, speaking at a forum in Accra said: “A number … Read more
It appears the brouhaha surrounding the implementation of the Free Senior High School policy of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government will not die soon as concerns about cost and source of funding continue to get murky. A former Member of Parliament for the Nanton constituency, Murtala Mohammed has raised eyebrows about who manages information … Read more
Though many have lauded moves by government to implement the Free SHS Policy in September 2017, the Conference of Heads of Private Second Cycle Schools, (CHOPSS), is worried that the policy will eventually phase them out. They argue that the policy will reduce the demand for enrollment in private Senior High Schools. Government has announced … Read more
Former Deputy Finance Minister, Mona Helen Quartey has cast doubt on government’s ability to fulfill the free SHS policy this year. The NPP government’s flagship programme, according to President Akufo-Addo will kickstart September, 2017. However, there has been controversy over the aspect of funding in the free SHS policy after Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo … Read more
A Tamale-based Civil Society Organisation calling itself the Public Interest Advocacy Group has petitioned President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo over reported plans by government to use the heritage fund in financing the free Senior High School (SHS) education which begins in September this year. In their petition, the group said the decision if it turns … Read more
With the perceived confusion over funding for the government’s free Senior High School education policy dominating the news cycle, the New Patriotic Party government needs to outline to citizens its priority areas for development, the Operations Director of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Nana Ofori Owusu said. There was a suggestion from the Senior Minister … Read more
With the perceived confusion over funding for the government’s free Senior High School education policy dominating the news cycle, the New Patriotic Party government needs to outline to citizens its priority areas for development, the Operations Director of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Nana Ofori Owusu said. There was a suggestion from the Senior Minister Yaw … Read more
Veteran journalist Kwaku Baako says the NPP government has a clear vision on how it intends to fund its free SHS campaign promised expected to cost GHC 3.6 billion annually. He said even before the NPP won political power in December 2016, the party’s 2016 flagbearer Nana Akufo-Addo had revealed it would use monies from … Read more
The Akufo-Addo government has been urged not to shy away from imposing a tax to fund free education following a raging debate over the funding source for the 2016 campaign promise. A pro-social intervention civil society group, ISODEC made this recommendation, urging government to follow after Uganda’s model which “relied heavily on taxation” to make … Read more
Former Deputy Finance Minister, Mona Helen Quartey has cautioned the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to think through the free senior high school (SHS) programme before implementing it. She said the “bold endeavour” of government might fail if it is hastily executed without a clearly thought-out plan to sustain the social intervention programme. Contributing on … Read more
This week’s edition of Newsfile focused on the free SHS policy which begins in September. On February 11, President Akufo-Addo announced that government will fully implement the free Senior High School policy from the 2017/2018 academic year which starts this September. In his explanation he said by free SHS he means there will be no … Read more
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has maintained no absolute decision has been taken to use the Heritage Fund to finance the free senior high school (SHS) programme. NPP Director of Communications, Nana Akomea said comments by Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo about the likelihood of government using the reserved Fund was a suggestion. “This … Read more
Using the Heritage Fund to invest in government’s free Senior High School policy would be in line with the purpose for setting up the fund, the Minister of Information, Mustapha Hamid has said. The Information Minister was justifying a suggestion by the Senior Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo to the effect that, government would consider reviewing the … Read more
The Minority in Parliament has impressed on President Nana Akufo-Addo to clarify if his New Patriotic Party government will be using the Heritage Fund to fund the Senior High School policy following what it calls conflicting signals from his officials. There was a suggestion from the Senior Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo that government would consider reviewing … Read more
Using the Heritage Fund to invest in government’s free Senior High School policy would be in line with the purpose for setting up the fund, the Minister of Information, Mustapha Hamid has said. The Information Minister was justifying a suggestion by the Senior Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo to the effect that, government would consider reviewing the … Read more
The Minority in Parliament has impressed on President Nana Akufo-Addo to clarify if his New Patriotic Party government will be using the Heritage Fund to fund the Senior High School policy following what it calls conflicting signals from his officials. There was a suggestion from the Senior Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo that government would consider reviewing … Read more
New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP on Parliament’s Finance Committee says the NPP government will unveil a comprehensive financing plan covering its much-talked-about free Senior High School (SHS) policy, two weeks time. In terms of the financing of its flagship programme(free SHS), Mr Kwarteng said that would be communicated to Ghanaians in its 2017 budget statement … Read more
The inconsistency on the part of government officials with regards to the source of funding for the Free Senior High School programme is disturbing, Fiifi Kwetey, a former Minister of Transport, has said. His comment follows assurances given by Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta that the government will not use the Heritage Fund to finance the … Read more
The minority members in parliament have asked President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to come clean on whether his government intends to use proceeds from the reserved oil revenue to finance its much touted free senior high school programme. According to the MPs, there is “total confusion” on the issue considering the conflicting statements made by … Read more