The government has announced that second-year senior high school (SHS) students will remain on the double-track system when the next academic year begins in September this year. The announcement follows the delay in the execution of the additional projects being embarked on by schools operating the double-track system in the …
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VIDEO: Pupil teacher c*ught having s*x with 11-year-old in an uncompleted Building
Watch the video below A video sighted by Ghwatchdog.com captures a fully grown man having s*xual intercourse with a little girl in an uncompleted building. Per the information we have gathered, the young man is said to have lured the school children into the uncompleted building to have sex with them. Some …
Read More »#WAI: Former Black Stars goalkeeper ‘Olele’ arrested at East Legon tunnel
A former Black Stars goalkeeper and current goalkeeper trainer Richard Kingston also know as Olele has been arrested together with 21 errant drivers at the East Legon tunnel as part of CITI TV’s war against indiscipline campaign. One would have expected that since the Police has already held operations in …
Read More »Police arrest suspected railway metal thief (Photos)
A 33-year-old man, identified as Abdul Dramani, suspected to be part of a gang that stole railway metals from the Ohene Nkwanta Railway near Odumasi in the Ashanti region has been arrested by a police taskforce in the Asante Akyem Central District. According to the Konongo District Commander, Supt. Shaibu …
Read More »Guesthouse owner arrested for producing ‘pineapple- wee’ juice
The Eastern Regional Drug Law Enforcement Unit of the Ghana Police Service has arrested a Guesthouse owner at Akateng near Assesewa in the Eastern Region for allegedly producing pineapple juice mixed with marijuana. Starr News has gathered that the Police arrested the suspect identified as Ackah Saibi, 50, Friday, July …
Read More »Seven JHS students caught using charm ‘for girls’
Seven Junior High School students have been caught using love charms to woe girls in their class. Pictures of a cream akin to the famous Mama Gee attraction creams and concoctions, have been sighted in a Facebook post by a teacher, Jay Song believed to hail from Tamale but his …
Read More »WAEC withholds WASSCE results of 26,434 students
The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has withheld the entire results of some 26,434 candidates pending the conclusion of investigations into various cases of examination malpractice detected during and after the conduct of the examination. The Council in a statement signed by Mrs. Agnes Teye-Cudjoe, Head of Public Affairs for …
Read More »Woman arrested for inflicting cutlass wounds on son
A 26-year-old woman, who inflicted cutlass wounds on her 10-year-old biological son, is in the grips of the Obuasi Divisional Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service. Mariam Issah, a resident of Boete, a suburb of Obuasi, was arrested following a report by a neighbour …
Read More »The ‘Bleak House’ in Ghana; Judges departing from Justice and Law to satisfy a transient MAN
I didn’t see this coming, but I am able to bring my mind into agreement with Charles Dickens when he wrote in chapter 1 of his book the ‘Bleak House’ which deeply criticised the court of chancery as ‘This court of chancery…which gives to monied might the means abundantly of …
Read More »Avoke’s return: Heavy police presence on UEW campus
A huge number of heavily armed police officers have taken over the security of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) in anticipation of the return of the ousted Vice-Chancellor of the school, Prof Mawutor Avoke, who, together with some staff who were also dismissed, stormed the campus on Tuesday to, …
Read More »UEW impasse: Afful-Broni is the “legal, legitimate” VC – Napo
Education Minister, Mathew Opoku Prempeh, has backed the current Vice Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba, Professor Anthony Afful-Broni, saying “there’s only one Vice-Chancellor” at the University. Mr. Prempeh’s support comes on the back of brewing tensions in the University with a combined team of National Security Operatives and …
Read More »Govt to reintroduce national high school certificates
Government has revealed it will reintroduce the issuance of national certificates aside the WASSCE, as part of the rolling out of new curriculum for basic schools. According to the Education Minister, Mathew Opoku Prempeh, the certificates will be a prerequisite for gaining employment in the country. Speaking at a stakeholder …
Read More »Free SHS: 1.3 million students expected in school this year – Napo
The Student population in Senior High Schools will be around 1.2 million after this year’s admissions, Education Minister Mathew Opoku Prempeh has disclosed. Speaking at the Meet The Press encounter in Accra on Wednesday, he said the figure would be some 400,000 increase from the current population of about 800,000. …
Read More »Armed robbers attack Deputy Education Minister; 5 injured
Five persons have sustained various degrees of gunshot wounds after Deputy Minister of Education, Hon. Dr. Osei Adutum and others were attacked on Sarikyikura on the Tamale Buipe highway. Police in a statement sighted by MyNewsGh.com disclosed that the injured persons are currently at the Tamale Teaching Hospital responding to treatment while …
Read More »Mother attacks son with cutlass
A 10-year-old boy, Awal Mohammed, who had his body slashed multiple times by his mother at their home in the Obuasi suburb of Boete in the Ashanti Region, has been hospitalized. He had reportedly collapsed in a neighbour’s house where he sought refuge. He was rushed to the Bryant Mission …
Read More »‘Hepatitis B, C infections, leading causes of death in Ghana’
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has identified the country as having prevalence of chronic hepatitis B and C virus infections, which are leading causes of death from infectious diseases globally. A statement released by the GHS in Accra yesterday, said about 421 people died out of 117, 095 viral hepatitis …
Read More »Boy jailed 20 years for robbing two sisters
One of the two youngsters who robbed two sisters has been jailed for 20 years by the Bekwai Circuit Court. Godwin Nyarko, 18, was convicted on his plea of guilty to three counts of robbery, contrary to sections 23 (1) and 149 of the Criminal Offence Act 29/60. Prosecutor, Detective …
Read More »Honoris United Universities launches the MANCOSA School of Education to elevate teacher training in Africa
New School of Education reflects Honoris’ continent-wide goals of improving quality of education in Africa and reimagining teacher education in the 21st century. Honoris United Universities, the first private pan-African higher education network, announces the official launch of the MANCOSA School of Education in South Africa, designed to meet the …
Read More »UEW saga: Fmr VC, dismissed staff chased out by Police
A combined team of National Security operatives and Police personnel Tuesday afternoon chased out some dismissed staff of the University of Education, Winneba. The dismissed staff who stormed the Council Chamber Tuesday, July 23, included the former Vice Chancellor Professor Mawutor Avoke, the former Finance Officer Arkorlie, and Dr. Ofori …
Read More »UEW staff sues Afful-Broni; wants Avoke to takeover as Vice-Chancellor
The seeming tension at the University of Education Winneba (UEW) is far from over as a Senior Staff of UEW has sued the university and its Vice-Chancellor, Anthony Afful-Broni. Kingsley Amoakwah, an accountant by profession and Chairman of the Senior Staff Association Union is seeking an order restraining Afful-Broni from …
Read More »Woman, 33, poisons husband’s soup with weedicides in Upper West
The police in Hamlin in the Upper West Region are on a man-haunt for a 30-year-old woman for allegedly poisoning the husband to death. The suspect, Mariam Yakubu, reportedly prepared a meal for the husband and allegedly poisoned it with weedicides. Disclosing the circumstances which led to the action of …
Read More »Three arrested with human parts at Abuom
Police at Kukuom in the Asunafo South District of the Ahafo Region have arrested three persons with human parts at Abuom near Sankore. The three; Peter Foh, 35, Yaw Yeridie, 31, and Berko Isaac, 30, were arrested at about 11 pm on Sunday, July 21, 2019. The Kukuom District Police …
Read More »3 detained over missing 4,000 bags of fertilizer
Three people, including an agric director, have been arrested in the Sunyani West District of the Bono Region for allegedly stealing 4,000 bags of fertilizer meant for the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ). They are Gilbert Sonkpi, district agric director; Owusu Banahene, district desk officer for PFJ; and a …
Read More »Two jailed 40 years for robbery
Two persons have been handed a total of 40 years in jail by the Kasoa Circuit Court presided over by His Lordship Ebenezer Osei Darko. The two Daniel Amoah and Yaw Danso were convicted on the charge of conspiracy to commit crime to wit robbery. The two were alleged to …
Read More »Man shot dead at Adoagyiri
Jacob Quashie Okai, a 40 year old man was on Thursday shot dead by an unknown assailant at Ntoaso near Adoagyiri in the Eastern Region. Briefing the Ghana News Agency (GNA), Police Superintendent Mrs Marian Osei-Owusu said the incident occurred at about 1000 hours in the morning after the deceased had …
Read More »Students abusing ‘Tomtom’ and ‘energy’ drinks – FDA
The consumption of concoctions made from a mixture of ‘TomTom’ toffees crushed into energy drinks is the emerging trend of drug abuse among students, the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has said. Mr Gorden Akurugu, Volta/Oti Regional Director of the Authority said the phenomenon was widespread among teenagers in the …
Read More »Masawudu Mubarak; The Sacrificial Lamb For Muntaka Mubarak?
The so-called democratic political party has bared its undemocratic teeth to one of its own. Walking majestically to the Asawase Constituency office of the NDC, Masawudu Mubarak, clothed in innocence, asked to be sold the nomination forms of the party to enable him to contest in the parliamentary primaries of …
Read More »Akpeteshie distiller kills 6-year-old son in Takoradi
A 47-year-old man has under a strange circumstance, stabbed his six-year-old son to death at Diabene, a farming community within the Sekondi/Takoradi metropolis of the Western Region. Kwaku Aaba, a local gin distiller, allegedly used a sharp machete to slash the boy’s neck from the back without any provocation whatsoever, …
Read More »2 arrested for conveying tramadol with an ambulance
The Apapa Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has announced the interception of an ambulance conveying 10 cartons of 225 milligrams of Tramadol in the Apapa area of Lagos State. It said the Hyundai ambulance, with number plate, LND 605 XW, was intercepted with the drugs while the driver …
Read More »UEW graduands stranded as govt fails to constitute new Council for graduation
Thousands of graduating students of the University of Education, Winneba, have been left stranded on the campus as their graduation appears to be in limbo. The situation is due to the delay by government in reconstituting the University’s Governing Council which has the mandate to superintend the graduation ceremony. The …
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