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Include entrepreneurship in JHS, SHS academic curricula …Nhyiaeso MP advocates
Dr Stephen Amoah, Member of Parliament (MP) for Nhyiaeso, has advocated the urgent need to include entrepreneurship as a core subject in the Junior High School (JHS) academic curricula and as an elective course in the Senior High School (SHS) curricula, respectively.
The legislator was of the firm conviction that if entrepreneurship was fully integrated into the country’s education system, it would ignite students’ interest in the course and create their own businesses after school.
That way, he said, it would minimise youth unemployment in the country and lift the pressure on the government to always find avenues to recruit graduates into the public sector.
Dr Stephen Amoah made the remarks in a statement read on the floor of Parliament on Tuesday.
Entrepreneurship is the ability to set up a new business and develop one’s own business with the intention of making a profit, instead of relying on existing and flourishing businesses.
The Nhyiaeso lawmaker was of the belief that if entrepreneurship was given the needed national attention, it would stimulate socio-economic growth and stability.
“The job market in Ghana is congested therefore putting most of the youth in undesirable situations including insecurity, armed robbery, teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases,” he noted.
According to the Data Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, only 10 per cent of Ghanaian graduates secure jobs within a year of graduation.
The way to deal with graduate unemployment, according to the legislator, was by integrating entrepreneurship as a key policy intervention.
The Ghana Statistical Service also said graduate job-hunting during the period of graduation has always been a laborious experience, leading to stressful conditions.
The Ghana Education Sector Report said about 109,874 graduated annually from the universities, however, only 10 per cent secure regular job within a year of graduation.
Dr Amoah noted that Ghana, being a developing nation, endowed with many natural resources must leverage on her resources to create jobs for the teeming youth to contribute their quota to national development. –GNA
A 30-year-old man has been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment with hard labour by the Bekwai Circuit Court for his role in a 2022 robbery at a mining site at Manso Akwasiso in the Ashanti South Region.
The convict, Dominic Ofori, also known as Fanta, was arrested on 16th February 2026 after years on the run. He pleaded guilty before the Bekwai Circuit Court to robbery contrary to Section 149 of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 Act 29, and was accordingly sentenced to 25 years imprisonment with hard labour.
On March 20, 2022, the Manso Adubia District Police received intelligence that a group of armed men from Manso Abodom were planning to attack a mining site at Manso Akwasiso to rob the owner of gold concentrate. Acting on the information, police mounted a coordinated operation and laid an ambush at the site.
At about 5:30 pm the same day, four-armed men arrived at the site, fired indiscriminately, and robbed the miners of their gold concentrate. The police team on surveillance intervened, resulting in an exchange of gunfire.
Three of the suspects, Abu Abubakar, Musah Latif, and Gideon Takyi, sustained gunshot wounds and were pronounced dead on arrival at St Martins Catholic Hospital at Agroyesum. Dominic Ofori escaped at the time but was later arrested and put before the court.
The Ashanti South Regional Police Command has assured the public of its continued commitment to combating violent crimes and bringing offenders to justice.
The Ashanti Regional Police Command has arrested 45-year-old Isaac Boafo, also known as “Duabo King,” for allegedly publishing false news intended to cause fear and panic.
Police said the arrest follows a viral TikTok video in which Boafo claimed that four officers at the Central Police Station in Kumasi engaged in inappropriate conduct with commercial sex workers during night patrols in Asafo.
Officers from the Police Intelligence Directorate (Ashanti Region) apprehended Boafo after receiving intelligence about the video.
During questioning, he admitted to creating the video to attract views and engagement online, and acknowledged that he could not prove the allegations.
Boafo also admitted making comments about the President of the Republic for content purposes and could not defend those statements.
He has been formally charged and is in detention as investigations continue.
The Ashanti Regional Police have warned the public against publishing or sharing false information on social media, noting that such acts can cause fear, panic, and damage reputations.
They said anyone found engaging in similar conduct will face legal action.
By: Jacob Aggrey
