Renowned educationist Mr. William Boadi has vehemently agitated for a rival education body to run the country’s examinations to help redeem its sinking standards since West Africa Examination Council has lost her integrity. According to Mr. William Boadi, Ghana’s education is currently in tatters due to the unfortunate manner the …
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Libraries to be made lively and connected spaces for life-long learning – Minister of Education
The Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh has said, government is committed to continuing its efforts to make public libraries lively and connected spaces for life-long learning. He made this statement in the speech delivered on his behalf by Mrs. Gifty Twum Ampofo, Deputy Minister of Education in …
Read More »Woman, 26, hits newborn baby against a tree to death
A 26-year-old Woman, Esi Dora, has killed her newborn baby by hitting her against a Palm Tree at Breman Amoanda in the Asikuma Odobeng Brakwa District of the Central Region. Information indicates that this is the second time the woman has committed such a heinous act as she last year …
Read More »School Dir. arrested for non-payment of GHC 6,600 SSNIT contribution
The Director of Ajumako Bisease Glory International School is in the grips of Breman Asikuma Police Command for non-payment of Social Security contribution of his employees. The Breman Asikuma SSNIT Branch Manager Ms. Janet Oduro in an interview with Kasapa FM News Yaw Boagyan said Mr. Albert Mfumah and his …
Read More »Empress leaks owner granted Ghc300k bail
The Circuit Court in Accra has granted bail in the sum of GHc300, 000 to Anderson Ofosuhene Anim, the administrator of Empress Leak, the man at the centre of electronic child ponography in Ghana. He was arrested after the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) of the Ministry of Communications, in …
Read More »Cancel leaked WASSCE papers now – Minority to WAEC
The Minority in Parliament is calling on the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to cancel leaked West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) papers. The Minority made the call in a press statement signed by the Deputy Ranking Member, Committee on Education of Parliament, Dr. Clement Apaak. ‘WAEC, as a …
Read More »Probe WAEC’s leak of examiner details – Africa Edu. Watch petitions Parliament
The Africa Education Watch has petitioned the Parliamentary Select Committee on Education to investigate the circumstances leading to the leakage of confidential identity contacts of examiners scheduled to mark this year’s West Africa Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) papers. The Education Africa Watch also wants the committee to cause the …
Read More »NUGS condemns leakage of WASSCE papers
The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) has strongly condemned the leakage of examination papers in the ongoing 2020 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE). Several papers in the ongoing WASSCE including Economics, English have been leaked on social media with answers. This leakage follows agitations by students who …
Read More »Reading Will Enhance Quality Education—First Lady Rebecca
The First Lady of the Republic, H.E. Mrs. Rebecca Naa Okaikor Akufo-Addo has identified reading as the sure panacea to enhancing the quality of education and deepening the intellect of the youth. According to her, a people with high literacy skills are better positioned to expedite the development of a …
Read More »EOCO exonerates former UWR Health Director
The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has exonerated Dr Osei Kufuor Afreh, the immediate past Upper West Regional Director of Health Services of allegations of wrong-doings levelled against him. The EOCO, after exonerating Dr Afreh, charged the Coalition of Concerned Citizens’ of Upper West Region to formalize the Coalition’s …
Read More »Election 2020: GJA sends important message to members
The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has told its members to bring to the Association’s notice if they will be unable to vote on election day. The GJA, in a press release on Tuesday, noted that journalists, whose duties may prevent them from casting their votes on December 7 but wish …
Read More »Police officer chews and swallows bar manager’s ear over cost of alcohol
A police officer has allegedly bitten off and chewed the ear of a drinking bar manager at Sefwi Amoaya in the Bodi District, Western Region. The incident is said to have occurred after a short confrontation between the police officer and the bar manager over unpaid drinks the former consumed …
Read More »COVID-19: Nine more killed in Ghana as death toll hits 248
Nine more persons have been killed by the deadly COVID-19 in Ghana, taking the country’s death toll to 248. The total case count of the highly infectious disease now stands at 42,993 with a total of 40,796 people either recovered or discharged. The current active cases has increased …
Read More »NAGRAT welcomes Professional Teacher Allowance policy
National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) has welcomed government’s policy of Professional Teacher Allowance (PTA). The Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, on Tuesday, August 12 2020 announced the policy of the Professional Teacher Allowance saying that it would enable teachers to invest in improving and upgrading their skills and …
Read More »Something is wrong with teaching profession in Ghana – Patrick Awuah
Founder of Ashesi University, Patrick Awuah, has asked major stakeholders in Ghana’s educational system to pay critical attention to the training and development of teachers in the country. According to him, while recent backlashes have been targeted at students who rioted and destroyed school property for strict invigilation during their …
Read More »NDC apologises for cancellation of teacher trainee allowance
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has apologised for an earlier decision by the Mahama-led administration to scrap both teacher and nursing trainees’ allowances. The National Youth Organiser for the party, George Opare Addo admitted that the decision by former President John Dramani Mahama was unpopular. According to him, the …
Read More »51-year-old man jailed for sexually abusing girl, 6
The gender-based Circuit Court in Accra presided over by Her Honour Mrs Christina Cann has sentenced a 51-year-old waste collector who inserted his fingers into the private part of a six-year-old girl to three years imprisonment in hard labour. The convict, Daniel Martey Commodore Okine who was charged with indecent …
Read More »Hygiene Students Picket At Sanitation Ministry Over Unpaid Allowance
Scores of hygiene students have picketed at the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources in demand of their 3years unpaid allowances. As early as 3 am on Monday, the students stormed the Ministry in protest of their unpaid allowances. The students who besieged the Ministry with their mattresses, food items, …
Read More »9-week-old baby killed by coronavirus
The latest update on Ghana’s Coronavirus figures indicates that a 9-week-old child has succumbed to the disease. According to the Ghana Health Service, the baby’s unfortunate demise occurred in the Central region. He is one of the 8 persons who are said to have been killed by the virus in the latest …
Read More »University Of Energy And Natural Resource TESCON Honours Francis Owusu-Akyaw
The Tertiary Education Students Confederacy of the New Patriotic Party (TESCON) in the Sunyani based University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) last Saturday conferred special honors on Mr. Francis Owusu-Akyaw, a minerals expert and NPP member. In a citation the student’s wing commended Mr Akyaw for displaying commitment to …
Read More »The story of an 11-year old victim of sodomy
A Ghanaian-based Seirra Leonian woman, Ruth Salamatu Kamara, whose eleven-year-old son, Nathaniel was sodomized just last week, has come out to share on Happy FM, the painful ordeal that her son was put through. Ruth, who has been in Ghana for two years now, narrated that she came to Ghana …
Read More »UCC, others to resume on August 24 to write end of semester exams
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced that continuing students in schools that could not write their end of semester examinations will be reopened on August 24. According to the President, this is to allow them the opportunity to write their final exams for the academic year. The President made …
Read More »Six Persons Mining Close To School Arrested At Enchi
Police in the Western North Region have grabbed six miners at Enchi within the Aowin Municipality. The six; four Ghanaians and two Chinese nationals, were found mining near the compound of a newly-built school at Omanpe near Enchi. They are said to be employees of a Chinese mining company called …
Read More »Government to provide meals to JHS pupils
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has instructed the Gender Minister to provide one hot meal to all final year Junior High School (JHS) pupils in schools preparing to write the BECE. …More soon… Source: www.ghanaweb.com
Read More »17-year-old girl commits suicide after losing ‘street fight’
A 17 years old girl has allegedly committed suicide at Mpasaaso NO_ 2 in Ahafo ano South west district in the Ashanti Region. The deceased whose name was given as Rita Amapofo aka Adwoa Fordjour, was found hanging in a room by some members in the community on Saturday August …
Read More »Zimbabwe rejects Catholic bishops’ criticism of corruption and abuse
Zimbabwe’s government has dismissed a letter by Roman Catholic bishops highlighting corruption, poverty and human rights abuses. “There is no crisis, political or otherwise,” said Information Secretary Nick Mangwana. He accused the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishop’s Conference (ZCBC) of joining groups seeking “to manufacture crises”. The bishops had called for an …
Read More »Mother remanded for killing two sons
A 35-year-old woman has been remanded in prison custody by the Ejura District Court for allegedly killing her two sons at Yeboa Akosua, a farming community near Ejura in the Ashanti Region. The court, presided over by Mr Divine Kwaku Ahiadu, charged the accused, Adwoa Juliana, with two counts of …
Read More »20-year-old orphan commits suicide
A 20-year-old man has allegedly committed suicide at Assin Akropong in the Central region. The deceased whose name was only given as Paa Kow was found hanging in a room by his friend on Saturday August 15,2020. It is not clear yet what might have compelled the deceased to take …
Read More »Man Commits Suicide after killing wife and injuring Daughter
Information trickling from Aboabu No4, a Community at Dormaa Central isn’t pleasant to the ears. An old man 65 identified as Kwaku Abu, butchered his wife Rosina Takyiwaa to dead, wounded his only beloved daughter Augusta severely and committed suicide to save himself for being sentenced to jail. According to …
Read More »Final year JHS student commits suicide at Assin Akropong
An 18-year-old JHS 3 student, known as Paa Kwabena, has committed suicide at Assin Akropong in the Assin Central District of the Central Region. He was found hanging with a sponge tied to his neck from the window rod of his house around Saturday Evening. It is not known what …
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