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Pressure intensifies on the government to suspend the academic fees of tertiary students for the year due to the effects of COVID-19.

Reports say the victims have been admitted at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital after part of an uncompleted two-storey building collapsed on them. According to Adomonline.com, the building which has been identified as a school being constructed by the Rev Ernest Bruce Memorial Methodist Church is said to have caved in around 3:pm on Friday. Building collapse at Adabraka leaves 2 injured The two victims are reported to be the labourers who were working on the buil...

Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin has called on the leadership of both sides of the House to help streamline the motion filed by the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga.

Parliament Stands Down Motion To Suspend Payment Of University Fees

NUGS backs motion for free tertiary education for 2021 academic year LISTEN JAN 21, 2021 The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) wants Parliament to consider the motion filed by the Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga seeking the suspension of payment of fees for tertiary students for a year due to the impact of COVID-19. In an interview with Citi News, President of NUGS, Isaac Jay Hyde described the motion by the Bawku Central legislator as a laudable one. “This i...

  The Bawku Municipal branch of the Forestry Commission (FC) is undertaking a rescue mission to restore the dwindling forest resources of 1000 hectares of degraded landscape in both on-forest reserves and off-reserves in the Municipality and its environs this year. The exercise is part of Government’s intervention to enhance environmental quality through the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources and its stakeholders, that is to restore and establish degraded Forest lands and incorporate tr...

Parliament on Wednesday stood down a motion by Mr Mahama Ayariga, Member of Parliament (MP) for Bawku Central, calling on Government to suspend the payment of fees at public tertiary institutions this year.

705 Three COVID-19 related deaths have been recorded in two municipalities in the Upper East Region this year. Two of the deaths were captured in the regions COVID-19 Situational Report of January 14, 2021 while the other death occurred last Friday, January 15, 2021 and is expected to be captured in the next report this week. The report indicated that two of the deaths - a 63-year-old woman and a 55-year -old man -  were recorded in the Bolgatanga and Kassena Nankana Municipalities, while the ...

The National Union of Ghana Students(NUGS) has appreciated the Bawku Central MP, Mahama Ayariga for writing to the office of the Speaker to request prior approval to move a motion for the suspension of the payment of admission fees for tertiary students in the 2020/21 academic year.

Graphic Online BY: Emmanuel Bruce 705 The Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mr Mahama Ayariga, has written to the Speaker of the House, Mr Alban Bagbin, requesting to move a motion for the House to suspend the Fees and Miscellaneous Provisions Instrument, 2019 (LI 2386) for the 2021 academic year. He said the economic conditions of the country at the time parliament approved the fees had changed in the light of the devastation to household incomes engendered by COVID-19 and other factors...