Some old students of Bright Senior High School have downplayed calls by the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Council for the closure of the school. The demand by the Council had been “provoked by the incident of examination fraud of grave significance in direct relation to the assault of Mr. Gyan Mensah …

The Minister for Education Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh has attacked the erstwhile Mahama administration accusing it of failing to purchase a single textbook for students throughout the eight period. In a special dispensation granted by the Speaker of Parliament for Ministers to make statements about their sectors, the Education Minister argued that …

Three traditional priests who allegedly caused the death of Edward Quartey Papafio, a 64-year-old bio-Chemist at Adeiso in the Eastern Region, have appeared before the Kaneshie District Court. Christian Awoe Gamelie aka Power One, 40, Famous Adukonu aka Scorpion, 37, and Yaw Azamate, 27, are being held on the charges …

A man believed to be about 40 years has been murdered and dumped in a lake at Fiifi Prat a suburb of Gomoa Nyanyano in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region. Information suggests the unidentified man was killed somewhere and dumped in the lake. In an interview with …

The Circuit Court in Accra presided over by Mr Emmanuel Essandoh has remanded a 30–year-old farmer who attempted to snatch an AK47 raffle from a police woman to prisons custody. Seyram Tony Adonu, who pleaded not guilty to two charges of attempted robbery and failing to comply with restriction orders …

A Circuit Court in Nsuta has sentenced two robbers to 24 years imprisonment for robbing a student of his Tecno Phanthom 9 mobile phone at gun-point at Ejura in the Ashanti Region. According to the fact sheet, the victim, Gyasi Mensah Stephen, a resident of Brigade, a suburb of Ejura …

Owner of Bright Senior High School (SHS) at Akyem Kukurantumi in the Eastern Region is set to be arraigned before a court following the disturbances that erupted in the school during the ongoing West Africa School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). Mr. Bright Amponsah has been charged with abetment of crime to …

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) of the Ministry of Communications, in collaboration with the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service and the National Cyber Security Technical Working Group, have nabbed the administrator of the notorious website, empress leak. Empress Leak is a website known for the …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has reviewed its decision to dismiss 14 final year Senior High School students for their misconduct and indiscipline acts in the ongoing WASSCE. This comes after the President of the Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo called on the GES to reconsider its decision and give …

Students of the University of Cape Coast are to report to campus on September 1. The Directorate Of Academic Affairs of the University of Cape Coast through a public notice has called for the resumption of academic activities. The resumption will be in batches as level 100 students who are …

A 13-year-old boy, who allegedly murdered his father at Adanse Pipiiso in the Adanse Asokwa District of the Ashanti region, has been arrested. The fugitive minor reported himself to the police together with his mother, Madam Grace. The suspect and his mother fled after he cut his father’s hand leading …

A man from the Fulani ethnic group was killed in a fresh attack on Saturday by unknown gunmen at Esereso, near Nsuta in the Ashanti Region. The latest incident brings the death toll to nine in the last eight months, according to Tabital Pulaaku International–Ghana, the largest Fulani welfare group …

It is the well-considered opinion of the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Council to hold up to its responsibility in relation to the affairs of the Bright Senior High School situated at Kukurantumi in the Abuakwa North District of the Eastern Region. Particular emphasis is the conduct over the past decade of …

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Three persons have been arrested for attempting to steal GH¢3.5 million from the account of the Ministry of Energy. The suspects — Bright Addae Addison, a 31-year-old banker of the National Investment Bank (NIB); Fuseini Abdullah, a 32-year-old Managing Director of Gumah Oil and Gas Limited, and Dennis Koranteng, a …

The Ghana Education Service must think of reintroducing corporal punishment to instill discipline in most schools across the country, President of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) Phillipa Larson has stated. Speaking on Morning Starr, Madam Larson said the behaviour of some candidates in the ongoing West African Senior …

A 12-year-old JHS 1 pupil, Kwadwo Acquah is on the run after allegedly killing his 60 years old father at Adansi Pipiiso in the Fomena District of the Ashanti region. The suspect, according to the police who confirmed the incident to MyNewsGh.com, absconded with his mother after inflicting machete wounds on …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has the power to suspend candidates who fail to abide by the rules and regulations in the ongoing examinations, the West African Examination Council has said. In backing the Ghana Education Service’s decision to suspend 14 students who caused mayhem in their senior high schools, …

A 40-year-old man has been lynched in Nyankpala in the Northern Region for stealing goats and sheep. On the spot investigations by the police revealed that the deceased, Fatawu Alhassan and two others were caught stealing some goats and sheep. The two accomplices managed to escape while the deceased was …

The Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Ridge has suspended two of its staff members for engaging in administrative malpractices. The officers were caught by BBC investigative team “Africa Eye” engaging in the sale of Personal Protective Equipment’s (PPEs) belonging to a private individual within the premises of the Hospital. According to their statement, …

The 50-year-old security man of the Northern School of Business, Mba Wulana, who was injured after a scuffle with a final year student has passed on. This comes less than a month after a 22-year-old student of the school, Sadat Yussif, allegedly pushed the security man, who then fell on …

President Akufo-Addo has appealed to the Ghana Education Service to reconsider the decision to ban some 14 students from writing the ongoing WASSCE following their involvement in the recent chaos in their schools. In a statement Sunday, the President directed the Education Minister to intervene in order to ensure that …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) on Friday, August 7, 2020, issued a press release to dismiss some 14 students for engaging in acts of indiscipline as well as interdicting three teachers for their alleged roles in some of the reported cases. The affected students, per their dismissal letters, are barred …

Two people have been shot by armed robbers after a vehicle they were travelling in from Techiman to Kumasi was ambushed. The incident which happened at Ahinkro near Offinso in the Ashanti region saw one person shot in the stomach while the other in the leg. The victims were rushed …

The Cybercrime Unit of the Ghana Police Service has shut down a Ghanaian owned pornographic website, empressleak.com, and has arrested the owner of the website, Anderson Ofosuhene Anim popularly known as Mario Gee, My News Ghana has gathered. In an operation by the Ghana Police Service, all computers, mobile phones, and internet …

The Ministry of Education says there are no immediate plans to reopen schools from next month for full academic activities. Consequently, it has called on the public to ignore reports to that effect. “The ministry will like to state categorically that aside from final-year students who are in school, the …

David Thomas Atombulu, a notorious armed robber in Sefwi Wiawso has been rearrested by the Sefwi Wiawso Police Command. David Atombulu was arrested for possession of three AK-47 rifles, police torchlight, a solar panel and sharp objects. He was earlier arrested for unlawfully breaking into the home of a resident …

The government is being urged to introduce alternative public education examination bodies to break the monopoly currently enjoyed by the West African Examination Council (WAEC). According to the Executive Director of the Africa Education Watch, Kofi Asare, this will force the West African examination body to sit up and act …

Bright Amponsah, the proprietor of Bright Senior High School at Kukurantumi in the Eastern region has reportedly been picked up by police from the Eastern Regional command. The arrest follows allegations of assault by some students of the school on West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) invigilators upon his alleged command …

Nana Akontomre Kwame Frimpong, Chief of Yabi, who allegedly instructed one of his subjects to inflict cutlass wounds on another person has been granted a GHC50,000 bail with a surety by the Nkawie Circuit Court. The chief is said to have instructed one of his subjects to inflict cutlass wounds …