The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) is not happy with regional and district directors of education and has asked them to desist from issuing official cover letters to organisations and institutions organising special classes for teachers due to write their promotional examinations. It also called on the management of …

The Upper East Regional Police Command has arrested a man described as a notorious criminal who has been on the wanted list of the Police. A statement by the Upper East Regional Police Command has said. The statement says, the suspect, Pius Ayomah Anundiabil was arrested on Saturday, February 8 …

Ejisuman Senior High School has expelled seven students from its boarding facility after they were deemed to have engaged in activities that tarnished the school’s image. The six are all final year students. They are accused of using a mobile phone – which is prohibited in basic and high schools …

Ruth Ama Eshun, a Ghanaian nurse has reportedly been gang-raped and killed by unknown assailants. Reports has sighted by social media indicate that Ruth Eshun, was murdered at a town called Ayuom in the Bosomtwe District which is near the Ashanti regional capital of Kumasi. Ruth Eshun was a community …

A serving soldier who defiled his nine-year-old daughter until she attained the age of 15 has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in hard labour by an Accra Circuit Court. Sergeant Eric Asare-Mante is said to have taken advantage of the victim any time he shaved her pubic hair and …

One person has reportedly been arrested in connection with the suspected murder of a nurse by unknown assailants at Sewua in the Bosomtwe District of the Ashanti Region. A phone found at the scene of the crime was traced to the unidentified suspect. Ruth Arhin, 37, a mother of three …

A 26-year-old faRmer, Mensah Kpogo Gamali, has shot and killed his wife at Pieso near Aboso in the Prestea Huni-Valley Municipality. He also allegedly shot himself after he succeeded in killing his 21-year-old wife, Comfort Ativor. Superintendent of Police Thomas Osei Ababio, Tarkwa District Police Commander who confirmed the incident …

Mr Alex Amankwah in charge of Specific Learning Disorders at the Ghana Education Service has revealed that the West African Examination Council (WAEC) accepts oral responses from students unable to write due to disability. He said provisions have been made to accommodate students with special educational needs in examinations to …

Mr Alex Amankwah in charge of Specific Learning Disorders at the Ghana Education Service has revealed that the West African Examination Council (WAEC) accepts oral responses from students unable to write due to disability. He said provisions have been made to accommodate students with special educational needs in examinations to …

The police at ACP Estates in Accra have arrested a 19-year-old Nigerian for allegedly killing his compatriot. The suspect, who was identified as Godwin Iboro, was arrested for beating Shadrack Marcel, 26, to death. Police preliminary investigation shows that Iboro engaged in a fight with Marcel because Marcel reportedly refused …

A 22-year-old man Andrews Osafo has taken his own life at Nsawam in the Eastern Region. The graduate of the Nsawam Senior High School hanged himself on a ceiling fan on Thursday. Mother of the deceased, Vida Osae narrated to Kasapa News Bonohene Baffuor Awuah that she left her son …

A serving soldier who had bouts of sex with his nine-year-old daughter until she attained the age of 15 has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in hard labour by an Accra Circuit Court. Sergeant Eric Asare-Mante is said to have taken advantage of the victim any time he shaved …

The impasse between the management of the University of Ghana and government over the ownership of the UG Medical Centre has been settled. Per an agreement between the two parties, government will take 60 percent shares of the facility with the University reserving  40. The disagreement over who takes control …

The Techiman Circuit Court has remanded the 34-year-old self-acclaimed lawyer, Iddriss Yahaya, into police custody to reappear on Thursday, February 13, 2020. State Prosecutor, Detective Inspector Phamous kwaku Agbasa, presenting fact of the case to court said there had been many complaints against the suspect since his arrest last Tuesday. …

The Greater Accra Regional Hospital – Ridge has put in place a comprehensive system to handle coronavirus cases should there be any in the country. Medical Director, Dr Emmanuel Srofenyo who took journalists on a tour of some of the wards designated for such cases said the hospital is ready to …

An unidentified man, believed to be in his late 30s, was stabbed to death Thursday dawn by suspected armed robbers at Tarkwa-Maakro in Kumasi. Residents were awakened by shouts for help from a male adult who turned out to be the victim. He was found lifeless with stab wounds and …

Suspected thieves have allegedly broken into the office of the Commander of the Tema Regional Police Motor Traffic and Transport Department, (MTTD), and made away with some items. The theft, which happened on Thursday, February 6, 2020, saw the intruders stealing two TV sets, one laptop, one GoTV decoder and …

The Ghana Health Service has said Ghana has recorded a total of nine suspected cases of the deadly coronavirus infection, but they have all tested negative. These nine cases include the two recent ones reported at the Korle bu Teaching Hospital on Wednesday. The two – a Chinese and an Argentine …

A virologist at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), Dr. Kofi Bonney has confirmed that tests on two suspected cases of coronavirus have proved negative. He explained that blood samples of the two suspects – A Chinese national and an Argentine – were been taken to the Noguchi for …

The head of the Public Health Department at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has revealed that a lack of a well-resourced holding bay at the hospital caused pandemonium among doctors on Wednesday. Dr Philip Amoo said there was a situation in which two suspected cases of coronavirus were reported at the facility …

About 290 students of the Buipe Senior High School (SHS) in the Central Gonja District of the Savannah Region have been asked to go home and report back to school in a week’s time. This follows a fire outbreak that occurred in the school last Monday that destroyed their dormitory …

Government has directed the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) to undertake educational infrastructure projects in all public senior high schools (SHSs) for successful implementation and sustenance of the Free SHS Policy. Madam Gifty Twum-Ampofo, the Deputy Minister of Education in-charge of Technical, Vocational Education and Training (TVET), who announced this …

Two teacher unions and some teachers have hailed the decision of the Ghana Education Service (GES) to revise its promotion process. The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), the Coalition of Concerned Teachers, Ghana (CCT-G) and some teachers have expressed their satisfaction with the decision to switch from interviewing teachers …

A 34-year-old man has been arrested on the orders of the presiding judge of the Techiman Circuit court, Justice Alexander Graham, during Court proceedings Wednesday, February 5, 2020. The suspected fake lawyer named Iddrisu Yahaya was in court to represent some four accused persons standing trial in a robbery and kidnapping …

Two foreign nationals on Wednesday reported at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital having developed some symptoms suspected to be coronavirus. The patients, a Chinese and an Argentine who have been living together in the country for some days, have been isolated at the facility while blood samples taken have been sent …

A 29-year-old man has brutally defiled 13-year-old girls who are twins at Apam in the Central Region. The victims had reportedly been sent on an errand by their mother when the suspect beckoned them. The girls who were a bit hesitant decided to heed to the call. The suspect then …

The Ghana Association of Certified Registered Anaesthetists have suspended their nationwide strike. The suspension of the strike is expected to take effect on Thursday, 6th February 2020. The suspension, according to the Association follows a “fruitful deliberation and goodwill shown by stakeholders and the leadership of the union in a …

A Sekondi High Court on Wednesday 5th January discharged the two Nigerian Suspects in the Takoradi kidnapped girls saga, Sam Udoetuk Wills and John Orji but were quickly re-arrested by the police and charged with murder at the Takoradi District Magistrate Court. This was after the State Attorney, Adeliade Kobiri-Woode, …

A 32-year-old mason who defiled an eight-year-old girl at Obogu in the Asante-Akim South Municipality has been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment in hard labour by the Juaso Circuit Court. Charles Amankwaa pleaded guilty to defilement and was convicted on his own plea accordingly by the Court presided over by …

Dunkwa-on-Offin (C/R), Feb. 4, GNA – Fire on Monday afternoon razed two male dormitories; Owusu Bore and Aggrey halls, at Boa-Amponsem Senior High School at Dunkwa-on-Offin in the Upper Denkyira East Municipality, displacing about 300 students. The inferno, causing extensive damage to property, took the intervention of the Municipal Fire …