The Eastern Regional Minister Eric Kwakye Darfuor has asserted the Free Senior High School Policy will increase women participation in future District Level elections. Available statistics indicate since 1994 the participation of women in local governance has been less than 10% at the national level in spite of women constituting …

A suspected thief identified as Victor met his waterloo after he was nabbed and almost beaten to death by an angry mob in Elebele, Ogbia Council Area of Bayelsa State. According to reports, Victor and his gang were said to have robbed one Sunday Eze with machetes. However, while his gang …

President Nana Akufo-Addo on Thursday, 10 October 2019 officially launched Ghana’s newest medical drone delivery base at Mampong during a tour of the Ashanti Region. This is the second of four medical drone delivery bases earmarked for construction to help expand access to critical and life-saving medicines for patients across …

The Volta Regional Police Command has arrested five out of six suspects in connection with a robbery attack on Kings Oil Filling Station at Peki-Wudome in the South Dayi District. Three of the suspects; Godfred Alorvordzi (aka Azagua), a trader, aged 45, Felix Dupe (aka Gbaga, Evangelist), 31, and Raphael …

When people started seeing it and asked, why is your clitoris so big? It is then I realized mine was different,” these are the words of a 32-year-old hermaphrodite. Depression, mockery and embarrassment are just a fragment of the trauma Pokuaa (not real name) went through growing up, having been …

The Deputy Director of the Public Relations unit of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA), Mr Kwaku Darko Afari, has confirmed to Class News that the Authority’s Tema office was broken into on Tuesday, 8 October 2019. He told Class91.3FM’s mid-day news 12Live on Thursday that the police command …

The Dean of Student Affairs of the University of Ghana, Professor Godfred Alufar Bokpin, has said the institution frowns on ‘sex-for-grades’, a reason it has in the last three years dismissed lecturers who have been found guilty in that regard. Prof. Bokpin in an interview with GhanaWeb on the heels …

The Sege police last Sunday arrested 24 year old Isaiah Tetteh Sebbie at Goi, a suburb of Sege, for allegedly butchering his aunt for ‘ritual’ purposes. The deceased, Madam Tornyasi Sebbie, aged 70, is said to be at logger heads with the suspect before her untimely death. Sege Police Commander …

An Associate Professor and the Dean of the School of Information and Communications Studies at the University of Ghana, Professor Audrey Gadzekpo has said that the committee set up to probe the sexual misconduct allegations leveled against some lecturers of the university will start its work early next week. She …

The art of seduction has been a widely used technique or weapon by many to achieve desirable results when the quest seems unsurmountable. It is especially adopted when the subject of interest has a reputation to uphold at all costs. Throughout history, many male leaders have fallen prey and had …

The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has urged the Ghana Education Service (GES) to make sure teachers get appropriate logistics to facilitate implementation of the new standard-based curriculum introduced into public basic schools. It said teachers across the 260 districts nationwide had been trained on the curriculum introduced this …

We already know that having sex not only feels spectacular, but it’s ridiculously good for your health, too. It boosts your immune system, protects from certain cancers, relieves stress, improves your mood, and helps you sleep better. And now, thanks to a new study, we also know that it protects …

Some teacher unions are demanding that Parliament suspends three educational bills which the Ministry of Education (MoE) has laid before the House. The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGR AT), Teachers and Educational Workers Union (TEWU) and Coalition of Concerned Teachers Ghana (CCT-GH) say …

State prosecutors have charged nine persons with treason felony for allegedly engaging in an “elaborate plot targeted at the Presidency”. They are Dr Frederick Yao Mac-Palm, Dornyah “Ezor” Kafui (a local weapon manufacturer) , Bright Allan Debrah Ofosu, also known as BB or ADC, a freight manager,  Colonel Samuel Kojo …

Police in Malawi have named an officer killed on Tuesday during clashes with anti-government protesters in Msundwe – a trading outpost west of the capital city, Lilongwe. Police spokesman James Kadadzerab told news agency AFP that officer Usumani Imedi had been stoned to death and “killed by rioters and criminals”. …

Three persons have been jailed eight (8) years each for Stealing an AK47 rifle from a Police Officer at Asesewa in the Eastern Region and selling it for Ghc1,000 The convicts – Kofi Osakonor, 24, a farmer, Isaac Agyemang, 19, masonry apprentice and Sarkodie Solomon, 20, an apprentice in Barbering, …

Fumbisi Senior High School in the Builsa South District of Upper East Region has been closed down following a series of strange incidents on the school’s campus. At least 11 female students were rushed to the hospital on Monday after falling down and becoming unconscious. The school’s management has sent …

Professor Ransford Gyampo and Professor Paul Kwame Butakor have been interdicted by the University of Ghana following the BBC’s “Sex for Grades” documentary. A press statement copied to Ghanaweb states that two lecturers will be invited by the Anti-Sexual Harassment Committee for investigations. “Given that commitment, the Business and Executive …

Tragedy struck the Mamponteng community in the Kwabre East District of the Ashanti Region last Sunday when a 14-year old boy shot and killed his eight-year-old sister. The incident has been described as an accident, which involved their grandfather’s single barrel gun. The whole community was thrown in a state …

The demonstration embarked by National Association of Law Students turned nasty when the police fired live cartridges and sprayed water on the demonstrators, who sat in the middle of the road creating traffic jam. This compelled the students to run helter-skelter for their dear lives with some seeking asylum in …

A student of Professor Yaw Gyampo says the under-fire lecturer is well behaved and very respected by his students. According to Enam, the lecturer who stands accused of sexual harassment in the BBC’s latest investigative piece – Sex for Grades- is very much liked by all those he teachers now. …

The Head of European Studies at the University of Ghana (UG), Professor Ransford Edward Gyampo, who has been implicated in the latest ‘Sex for grades’ investigative documentary of the BBC Africa Eye has hinted at suing the British media house. Prof Gyampo was seen making what the documentary described as …

A political science lecturer at the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Edward Gyampo has been caught up in the “sex for grades” investigations carried out by BBC Africa Eye. Professor Gyampo, who is also the Head of European Studies at the University of Ghana, in the compromising video was seen …

Academic institutions in West Africa have increasingly been facing allegations of sexual harassment by lecturers. This type of abuse is said to be endemic, but it’s almost never proven. After gathering dozens of testimonies, BBC Africa Eye sent undercover journalists posing as students inside the University of Lagos and the …

Hard drives in about five High Courts located in the Law Court Complex building have been stolen from system units of computers used for recording and storing Court records and proceedings, Starr News has learnt. The case of theft is believed to have happened during the just ended legal vacation …

A former Director of the Ghana Education Service, Charles Aheto Tsegah, believes that the Comprehensive Sexuality Education is very necessary for Ghanaian children in this modern age. Speaking on The Big Issue on Citi TV, he challenged the argument that comprehensive sexuality education would cause the kids to engage in …

A Gynaecologist at the Eden Family Hospital, Dr Andre Kwasi-Kumah, has dispelled the notion that fibroid is caused by sexual intercourse. The disease, he explained, had nothing to do with sexual intercourse either at an early or advanced age and debunked the notion that it is also caused by contraceptive …

The Cabinet of President Akufo-Addo rejected the proposed guidelines on Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) when it came up for consideration, Kasapafmonline.com has learnt. The Minister of Education Dr. Matthew Opoku Premeph who made the confirmation at the National Teachers Awards Ceremony in Kumasi said the country has no plans of …

Honoris United Universities, the first pan-African private higher education platform, announces the accreditation of six new programmes at YKBS. As a leading private business school in Mauritius, YKBS now offers more than 20 degree and certificate programmes. YKBS worked to adapt and accredit the six programmes from two other prestigious …

For many, John Mahama’s desperation in his comeback agenda cannot be underestimated. Now he has transmogrified his desperate moves to an obsession. The Minister of Education has given ample evidence to convince Ghanaians that CSE would not be part of the course outline to be taught our children in schools, …