Government determined to ensure progressive development - Dr Ahmed

Bolgatanga, Nov. 22, GNA - Dr Mustapha Ahmed, Deputy Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, on Thursday said government was determined to ensure progressive development of the country.       He said all sectors of government were leaving no stone unturned to bring the needed development to Ghanaians.   Dr Ahmed was addressing students at the Bolgatanga Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) prior to the distribution of 566 laptops to them.   The beneficiary students are from Tempane, Navrongo ,Bawku, and Bongo Senior High schools, Bolgtatanga Polytechnic, Gbewaa and St. John Bosco Training Colleges and University for Development Studies.   Dr Ahmed said it was one of the key policies under the Better Ghana Agenda to ensure students were assisted with access to information and enhancement of research work.   He said government made that possible by promoting local entrepreneurship and improving the local industry in Ghana as it contracted RLG to supply 100,000 laptops for Ghanaian Institutions.   Mr Mark Woyongo, Upper East Regional Minister, said access to education was paramount and that it was the priority of government to build more schools and remove those under trees.   He said the falling standards of education was due to lack of teachers and that government planned to build 10 more teacher training colleges to train more teachers to teach at the junior and senior high schools.   Mr Woyongo advised beneficiaries of the laptops to desist from using them for negative practices such as cyber fraud and watching pornography.   GNA... Read Full Story