The Ghana National Council of Private Schools (GNACOPS) has described as out of law, a directive by the National Schools Inspectorate Authority (NaSIA) to banks against doing business with unlicensed pre-tertiary schools. In a piece of earlier advice to the banks, NaSIA said: “We are by this letter entreating all …

Eskom said it would cancel load-shedding as of noon on Friday as generation units returned to service and helped to restore available capacity. Eskom said in an update that teams had successfully returned to service a generation unit each at the Duvha, Medupi, Kendal, Kriel and Kusile power stations. “A further …

Nigeria is ranked in the world as the country with the most jobless people. Bloomberg did the ranking of the countries worldwide with the highest unemployment rate. Nigeria has a population of about 200 million people. The Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says the underemployment rate saw a decrease from …

Disciplinary steps have already been taken against the inmate who recorded himself allegedly having s. – £- .x with a female prison warder in an office at a prison in KwaZulu-Natal. And while the warden has already been suspended, more officials could find themselves in trouble over the incident at …

A beleaguered father has called out one of Ghana’s elite secondary schools, Achimota over what he describes as ‘gross human right violation’ after the institution allegedly refused his ward admission. Raswad Menkrabea while sharing his ordeal on Facebook alleged that authorities of Achimota School rejected his dreadlocked son with claims …

  Tanzania has a new president in the person of Samia Suluhu Hassan, who two days ago was vice president of the East African country. She has made history becoming the first female president of the United Republic of Tanzania. Suluhu was, this morning, sworn in by the Chief Justice …

US and Chinese officials have exchanged sharp rebukes in the first high-level talks between the Biden administration and China, taking place in Alaska. Chinese officials accused the US of inciting countries “to attack China”, while the US said China had “arrived intent on grandstanding”. Relations between the two superpowers are …

Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia will announce the 2021 Housing and Population Census (PHC) today, Friday, March 19, when he launches the 100-day count down to the Census. The Census Night is the reference date for census enumeration and all questions asked during the enumeration would relate to that night. It also …

The Minister for Roads and Highways, Kwesi Amoako Atta has said there is already plans for Ashanti Region to get a fair share of Akufo-Addo’s government road projects. He maintains that the government will make road infrastructure a front-burner issue in the Ashanti Region. “I want to assure the people …

The Police in the Bono East region have started investigations to unravel circumstances leading to the killing of a top Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ali Ahmed Maikano. The deceased was reportedly travelling to his home in Prang from Kajegu, where he was a guest speaker for an event but was shot …