First-year Senior High School (SHS) students Thursday reported to school to begin the 2021/22 academic year. A visit by the Ghana News Agency (GNA) to the St Thomas Aquinas SHS and Accra High School saw the ‘freshers’ going through the registration process. Mr Paul K. Amoasi Baidoo, the Headmaster of …
Read More »Parliament to summon Education Minister over ‘Ewes’ in new textbook
Parliament is expected to invite the Minister of Education Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum to appear on the floor of the House to answer questions relating to newly-authored history textbooks for students. This comes after lawmaker for North Tongu Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has said he has filed an urgent parliamentary question requesting the …
Read More »Ghana Month: What you may not know about Mfantsipim, Presec, Wey Gey Hey and others
In Ghana, one’s Senior High School (Alma Mater) is one’s pride. More often than not, people will cite and tout their secondary schools, especially in the face of educational quizzes and competitions. There are several senior High Schools in the country and each has a history. A history behind its …
Read More »Missing teacher found in Salaga
Information reaching Bole-based Nkilgi FM indicates that the young teacher from Larabanga Sadik Tinkpemah was found on 11th March, 2021 along the Salaga road by some good samaritans after news his missing went viral. According information available to Nkilgi Fm, the teacher is currently responding to treatment in a medical …
Read More »25-yr-old maths teacher in need of GH¢32,000 to undergo hip replacement surgery
A 25-year-old female Mathematics Teacher, Portia Afriyie, of Katakyiwa M/A Basic School in the Atwima Nwabiagya North District of the Ashanti region, urgently needs GH¢32,000 to undergo surgery or risk being paralyzed in the coming days. Ms. Portia Afriyie, the only mathematics teacher for the Katakyiwa M/A JHS is suffering …
Read More »Stop punishing children for speaking vernacular in school
The Dean at the Faculty of Ghanaian Languages of the University of Education Winneba, Professor Charles Owu-Ewie says it is unjust to prohibit children from speaking vernacular in schools. Speaking at a virtual symposium on the role of the mother tongue in improving literacy in Ghana on 3fm 92.7, the …
Read More »Reopening for SHS 1 students postponed to 18 March
First-year Senior High School (SHS) students across the country are expected to report to school from Thursday, 18 March to Sunday, 21 March 2021 the Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced. First-year SHS students across the country were initially scheduled to report to school on Wednesday, 10 March 2021. However, …
Read More »Registration of private candidates for BECE begins
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has opened registration for the 2021 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for private junior high school candidates. According to WAEC, first-time candidates as well as those seeking to improve on their grades had up to March 19, 2021, to register for the examination which …
Read More »Teachers express shock over how kids in primary schools are proposing love to themselves
The world has gotten to a stage where children are experimenting everything including proposing love to themselves in their various schools. What makes the development quite worrying and disturbing is that many of these children are not even in their adolescent stages yet, they can be found in the lower/upper …
Read More »HOT VIDEO: Another SHS Girls Caught Twerking Like Professional Slay Queens
A clique of Senior High School (SHS) girls has been caught twerking like professional slay queens in a new video that has just pop up online. The viral video sighted by OccupyGh.com captures these young ladies, numbers 5, dancing and twerking like professional dancers. They went on twerking so professionally …
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