Thus, the founder of Speciallady Awareness Foundation, Elizabeth Amoaa will be visiting Ghana with her team again as part of her ongoing campaign towards the awareness on women reproductive health issues. Although, many agencies have been tackling these issues, there seems to be quite a large amount of people who still …

The Vice President, Dr Mahamadu Bawumia has likened the Double Track System to first and Second Church Service which allows Church members as many as possible to have equal access to listen to the Word of God. According to him, the Double Track System under the Free Senior High School …

Many parents of children with disabilities in the Eastern Region of Ghana continue to deny their children access to education. Out of the handful of parents who admit their children in special schools at the right age, majority waste early childhood education of the children after years of failed desperate …

The National Ambulance Service and the Minister of Health, Mr Kwaku Agyeman-Manu have urged the President, Nana Akufo-Addo to delay the intended distribution of some 275 ambulances to each of the constituencies in Ghana. The President had indicated in a press encounter in 2019 that the ambulances would be distributed …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has dismissed reports that it has contracted a foreign firm to design the new school uniforms to be used in junior high schools from the 2019/2020 academic year. It said, “it has not imported, neither, has it contracted any individual, locally or internationally to bring …

The Nigerian FCT Police Command has stopped an attempted robbery at a First Bank PLC branch in Mpape, a suburb of the capital city. The spokesperson of the command, ASP Mariam Yusuf, confirmed that order has been restored in the area after four of the suspects were arrested and one …

Police in Kumasi are investigating the circumstances under which a driver of the Bank of Ghana allegedly shot to death his lover in a hotel room in the Ashanti regional capital. Edwin Awuku and Maame Yaa, believed to be lovers, reportedly checked into the hotel in the evening of New …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has dismissed reports that it has contracted a foreign firm to design the new school uniforms to be used in junior high schools from the 2019/2020 academic year. It said, “it has not imported, neither, has it contracted any individual, locally or internationally to bring …

A newborn baby dumped in a public toilet at Atebubu in the Atebubu-Amantin District of the Bono East region has been rescued. The baby, according to reports, was discovered in the Atebubu English/Arabic school toilet by a security man. The Assembly Member for the Atebubu Zongo Electoral Area, Takiyudeen Issah, …

Teachers and students of Senior High Schools running the single-track system are demanding an explanation from the Ghana Education Service over the new time table for 2019/2020 academic year describing it as unfair. Teachers and Students of the single track SHSs have been in school since September 15, 2019, and …

Police in the Ashanti Region are investigating the death of a middle-aged woman after she was allegedly shot in her hotel room in Kumasi. The incident happened on Thursday dawn at the Cedar Crescent Hotel. Citi News sources say the deceased was attacked together with her boyfriend while they were …

If you are asthmatic, here are some tips to deal with the Harmattan. 1. Carry your inhalers everywhere you go. Having an inhaler doesn’t make you weak or show you’re going to die. 2. Know your triggers. Stay away from them. 3. Carry a sweater, pullover, coat with you, where …

The Management of the Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced that Senior High School (SHS) Form Three students would re-open on Sunday, January 5, to continue academic work for the 2019/2020 academic year. This is to enable the final year students prepare adequately towards the 2020 West African Senior School …

A suspected armed robber has been lynched at Kenyasi-Duase in the Kumasi metropolis of the Ashanti Region. The suspect, who is believed to be in his 20s suffered the mob attack after robbing a woman while she waited in a queue to register for the Ghana Card around 1 a.m. …

A self-Styled Journalist Joseph Ofosu aka Nartey based in Koforidua has appeared before the Kaneshie District Court charged with three counts of defrauding by false pretenses. Ofosu used the name of Mr Eugene Arhin, Director of Communications at the Presidency to swindle three persons under the pretext of securing a …

The Kojokrom township in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis has been thrown into a state of shock after news went viral of the alleged murder of a commercial driver in the area by a mentally deranged man. The victim has been identified as Samuel Biney affectionately called “Joe Otewtam”. Elderly brother of …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced that Free Senior High School (SHS) students will re-open on Sunday, January 5, 2020. A statement issued by the GES and signed by its Head of Public Relations Unit Ms Cassandra Twum Ampofo explained that the move will enable the final year students …

A Koforidua-based journalist has been slapped with three counts of defrauding by false pretence for impersonating Director of Communication at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin. Joseph Ofosu alias Nartey is said to have promised people he will secure them auction cars and have them nominated as Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief …

The Circuit Court in the Yendi municipality of the Northern region has remanded 18 suspected Western Togoland separatists into prison custody. The Yendi circuit court presided over by His Lordship, Anthony Aduku Aidoo, ordered the accused persons to reappear in court on January 9, 2020. The accused persons have been …

“No two ways that Doggy style is the most practiced sexual position during intercourse, the act is dangerous and can send one to his grave than you could ever imagine”, South Africa’s Minister of Health, Aaron Motsoaledi told The Insider. According to the minister in the interview sighted on The …

A 23-year-old woman has stabbed his boyfriend to death for allegedly cheating on her. The deceased was stabbed in the chest. The incident happened at Tsostunya a community near Obawale in the Yilo Krobo Municipality of the Eastern Region. The suspect Belinda Dawutey, 23, is currently in Police Custody at …

The mother of a 3-year-old defiled girl, Dora Amakye, is seeking justice for her daughter who has been sexually abused by a 38-year-old man identified as Akwesi who is currently on the run. Several efforts by the mother to get the Police to act on the case have proved futile. …

The former Chief Executive Officer of the Tamale Teaching Hospital, Dr. Daniel Tapang in 2006 questioned the campaign strategy of HIV/AIDS educators who were advising the youth to stay away from sex. Dr. Daniel Tapang argued that “sex is biologically driven” and, therefore, it was impossible to ask the youth …

Despite new claims of a significant reduction in national Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome prevalence rate in Nigeria, it is quite mortifying that the country still tops the mother-to-child transmission rate in the world. This is evidence that a lot needs to be done before the epidemic can be …

The Free Senior High School Policy has increased enrolment in secondary schools by 69 percent within the last three years, Vice President Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia said. “There was a lot of skepticism about whether we could actually implement the free senior high school education, but with conviction and determination …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has released the new academic calendar of 2019/2020 for double-track and single track Second Cycle (Senior High School) Institutions. Academic calendar attached Source: Peacefmonline.com

Latest statistics from the World Health Organisation shows that Ghana’s capital, Accra, is less congenial for human habitation due to unacceptable levels of contaminants in the air. The data, which is based on perceptions of persons surveyed over a period of three years, is presented below.  It indicates a very low perception if the value is …

The Technical University Teachers’ Association of Ghana (TUTAG) has declared an indefinite strike again over the non-payment of their December allowance after they called off a similar strike in October. In a letter notifying the authorities of their strike, TUTAG accused the government of reneging on the agreement they had …

Normally in the festive season in Ghana, what you see most teenagers do is work on their own toy guns but this is not the case for 14-year-old Kelvin Amaniampong. While other teens are craving to make their holidays more fun, Kelvin is busily fixing problems with the Free Education …

Deputy General Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers has kicked against plans by the opposition National Democratic Congress, to cancel the licensure exams if it is voted into power. According to Mr Awotwe Nkansah, they need this accreditation to differentiate themselves from the “fake” teachers that have flooded the …