Elvis Anokye

GES shifts reopening for SHS 3 students to August 25

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has shifted the reopening of school for third-year Senior High School (SHS) students from Monday, August 19 to Sunday, August 25, 2019. A statement issued on Friday and signed by the Director-General of the GES, Prof Kwasi Opoku Amankwa, said the new date was arrived …

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Apologise if you now accept free SHS – Napo to NDC

The Minister of Education, Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, also known as Napo has called on the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to apologise to Ghanaians for speaking against the government’s flagship free Senior High School policy.Addressing the chiefs and people Saboba as part of President Nansa Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s …

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Election of MMDCEs: EC sets referendum for December 17

The Electoral Commission (EC) has now settled on December 17, this year for the referendum on the election of metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives (MMDCEs). Earlier, the EC had fixed December 10, 2019, for the referendum. The Director of Electoral Services at the EC, Dr Serebour Quaicoe, announced the …

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Savannah Region: Death toll now 2 in Thursday’s communal violence

At least two persons are dead three others wounded after communal violence broke out Thursday evening between two rival groups at Lakula near Daboya in the Savannah Region. The death toll moved to two on Friday after one of the injured persons referred to the Walewale hospital failed to respond to treatment. …

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Savannah Region: One dead, four injured after communal violence

At least one person is feared dead and four others wounded after communal violence broke out Thursday evening between two rival groups at Lakula near Daboya in the Savannah Region. An eye witness in Mankarigu, a nearby community, confirmed to Joy News that the violence was triggered by a misunderstanding …

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A Letter To Mahama Over His Pretentious U-Turn On Free S.H.S

Dear Mr Mahama, Your pretentious u-turn on President Akufo-Addo’s Free Senior High School implementation has been exposed by the affable and competent Vice President of the Republic, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia. You and your surrogates, since 2012, have caused for over forty advertisements to be made against President Akufo-Addo’s Free S.H.S …

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Zoomlion And Stakeholders To Use WHO Recommended Biological Agent for Mosquito Control

The Vector Control unit of waste management giant, Zoomlion Ghana limited in collaboration with the ministry of Health is set to use Bacillus thuringiensis var israelensis (Bti) which is a biological agent recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) as efficient to control out door mosquitoes. BTI is a bacterial …

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Give Me The Nod As NPP Candidate To Win The Seat – Dramani Salifu

An aspiring Parliamentary candidate for the NPP in the Salaga North Constituency of the Savanna Region has appealed to delegates to give him the nod to lead the party in the constituency as the Parliamentary candidate to lead the party to win the seat from the NDC in the constituency. …

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Builsa: Akufo-Addo enskinned ‘chief for poor, vulnerable’

The Chiefs and people of the Builsa South, in the Upper East Region, have conferred the title Aniwoba Nab, meaning Chief for the Poor and Vulnerable on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.According to the Paramount Chief of Fumbisi, Nab Clement Akanko Anyatiuk, the decision taken to confer the title on …

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GES directs 3rd-year SHS students to report to school on August 19

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has directed that all Senior High School (SHS) third-year students are to report to school on Monday, August 19, to begin the first term of the 2019-2020 Academic Year. The directive brings forward, the re-opening date initially set for September for the third-year students, the …

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