Professor Mike Ocquaye, Sector Minister, said the project would among other things facilitate administrative work in all sectors of the economy and would promote distant education.
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According to the President, who is currently under serious flak from the public for nailing NDC as the political party responsible for the cocaine menace currently facing the country, it was the expectation of government that this university would enlarge access to distance education and create new avenues for employment generation and wealth creation.
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The Minister of Public Sector Reforms, Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum, has underscored the need to urgently and vigorously improve the effectiveness of national and internal institutions in order to improve on competencies and institutional capacity.
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This policy was completed a few years ago and adopted into Ghana’s Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy II.
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Ghana has witnessed lately an upsurge in cyber crimes arising from the use of the Internet to perpetrate unimaginable economic crimes.