News Monthly Archives: June 2018

The National Commission for Civic Education, NCCE, learned with shock the sudden demise of the Former Vice President of the Republic, Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, yesterday, June 29, 2018. The Commission expresses our deepest condolences to the wife, children, mother, and family of the late Vice Presi...

I was in Kumasi on Tuesday as a facilitator for a National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE)/European Union (EU) workshop themed STRENGTHENING CIVIC CONSCIOUSNESS THROUGH MEDIA ADVOCACY. It is obvious the NCCE has a real need for the media to reach a majority of citizens with its badly needed ed...

There have been repeated calls on journalists to support the National Commission for Civic Education, NCCE, to work effectively. Media men must provide NCCE with their platforms to educate citizens on their rights and obligations. Again, journalists, ‘the nation watchers’, must serve as civic educa...

From the 11th to 20th of June, 2018, NCCE will commence the second phase of the 2018 Citizenship Week. The second phase will focus on environmental governance with the theme, ‘The Environment and You’. Resource persons and volunteers will visit over ten thousand (10,000) basic schools across the...

The Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Mr. Emmanuel Kofi Nti, has encouraged pupils of Bishop Mixed JHS in Accra to build a tax-paying mindset as part of their academic development in order to contribute to the economic strength of the Country. He asked pupils to play a r...

The Technical Advisor to the Ghana Revenue Authority GRA, Mr. Henry Yentumi, has called on school children to encourage their parents to pay their in order to develop Ghana. He made the call when served as a resource person during the NCCE 2018 Annual Citizenship Week engagement with pupils of Rich...

The NCCE Deputy Chairman Finance and Administration, Ms. Kathy Addy has urged students of the Canadian Independent College to encourage their parents to pay taxes especially those in the informal sector and demand accountability from duty bearers.. Ms. Addy said when she had her turn at this yea...

The Chairman of the NCCE, Ms. Josephine Nkrumah has underscored the need to educate basic school children on the importance of tax. She stressed that the Commission wants children to understand that tax payment is a civic responsibility, therefore, while they mature start working they will know tha...

The Burma Camp cluster of schools has observed NCCE’s Citizenship Week. This year’s Citizenship Week is under the theme “Tax Build a Great Nation”.It is a collaboration between NCCE and GRA to create awareness on tax compliance among school pupils. Over 527 pupils benefitted from the engagement....